New Delhi: Physically challenged students appearing for the state board exams in Maharashtra this year, will now have an additional hour to write their exams — half an hour more than what they got earlier.
The decision has been taken by the Maharashtra state board of education a day after CNN-IBN told the story of Anand Kulkarni, a visually impaired student from Mumbai.
Anand's family had been knocking on the doors of the State Board to implement a December 2006 — a Bombay High Court order that gives physically challenged students four hours instead of three for completing their exams.
Anand is preparing hard ahead of his 12th standard board exams; however, revision for him is a difficult affair.
Anand has to wear glasses of + 38 diopter to even see what’s written in his textbooks. He cannot write on his own and must rely on someone else to help him write his exams.
Despite this, Anand managed to score 87 per cent in his pre-boards.
“There are serious communication problems with writers. I tell him a plus b whole square and he writes a plus b square. I cannot check the question paper and eliminate,” says Anand.
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