Taken from Telegraph India: “Cry for suspension of Utkal faculty”
Bhubaneswar, July 23: Visually challenged students today sat on a protest before the disability commissioner’s office here demanding immediate suspension of the Utkal university faculty Sujit Acharya.
Acharya had allegedly insulted a visually impaired student, who was compelled him to attempt suicide.
The students squatted in front of the commissioner’s office on the premises of Capital Hospital, where the victim Chakradhar Dash is admitted since Friday.
Twenty-five-year-old Chakradhar had tried to kill himself after he was allegedly humiliated by Acharya in an examination hall on July 17.
Dash, a postgraduate student of history under the directorate of distance and continuing education,had gone to the varsity to appear for his semester exam.
Chakradhar alleged that the faculty misbehaved with him and made fun of him and his scribe before the class asking him to sit near the toilet.
Distressed due to the insult, the student had drunk a full bottle of phenyl. Friends of the boy, who found him unconscious, rushed him to the Capital Hospital where he is undergoing treatment.
The student alleged that he was regularly cornered by the faculty of the directorate and had to study without any books or support of the teachers.
“We have initiated an inquiry into the matters and will take action against anyone found guilty,” said director Sasmit Pani directorate of distance and continuing education.
Besides suspension of the teacher, the students also demanded the proper supply of Braille books and immediate implementation of the Braille transcription project announced by the government.
A vigilance inquiry must be made into why schemes such as talking books meant to serve hundreds of blinds children has failed to deliver, demanded Joginder, a student.
This apart, the students appealed to the state government as to why the educational institutions have been continuing collection of fee from the disabled, despite the announcement of the government for a fee waiver for such candidates.
Source: Telegraph India.
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