The visually impaired student of Jawaharlal Nehru University, who failed his semester exams, has now been given zero year by the administration.
Munesh Kumar, a student of Japanese centre, had then said he had failed as he didn’t have facilities and reading material in Braille.
JNU Students’ Union had demanded Kumar be given a chance after he was denied the registration for winter semester. Kumar and other visually impaired students also faced similar hassles in the campus.
JNUSU president, SN Balaji said “The administration was forced to grant Kumar a zero year. Now his studentship will continue. In a highly discriminatory move, his registration was denied. He being the first visually-impaired student to study at the Japanese centre, there was no mechanism to provide him material both in Braille and technology. Moreover, he was provided a reading only once a week, which was insufficient to cover up for 20 hours of class per week,” Balaji said.
Meanwhile, Kumar expressed contentment on being given a zero year.