HEPSN Cell – Enabling Unit for Differently Abled

5% of seats in each course are reserved for differently abled candidates.
Each differently abled candidate shall be required to submit a certificate from a government hospital indicating the extent of physical disability and also the extent to which the disability hampers the candidate in pursuing his/her studies.
The candidates may have to undergo a fresh medical examination if required by the University before being admitted.
All differently abled candidates who have passed the qualifying examination are eligible to apply for PG admission irrespective of the percentage of marks obtained in the qualifying examination except otherwise specified.

The university departments and hostel buildings have ramps for the easy access. The students with disabilities are provided accessible accommodation in the hostel (free of cost).

HEPSN Enabling unit of Pondicherry University has been providing exclusive library facilities for student with special needs since 2010 onwards.

The following accessibility options are included in the Pondicherry University website

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100% free education is provided to students with disabilities.
Complete waiver of fees is given including all academic fee, hostel fee and mess fee.

Statistics

Students with Disabilities

Academic year	Number of student enrolled
2021-22	70
2020-21	194
2019-2020	60
2018-19	35
2017-18	57

Employees with Disabilities

S.No	Disability Type	Male	Female	Total
1	Locomotor Disability	7	2	9
2	Visually Challenged	4	0	4

Events

S.No	Name of the Conference/Seminar/Workshop/Training Course	Title of the Program	No of Participants
1	Two Day Symposium (7th – 8th Feb 2018)	Implementation of RPWD Act 2016:Role of Stake Holders	75
2	Two days computer literacy program (2-3 Feb)	Accessible Technologies	40
3	National Seminar (27th March 2018)	Orientation of National Trust Act	150
4	National Seminar (17th May 2018)	The Road Map for Effective Implementation of RPWD Act	200
5	One day Awareness Programme (28th of January, 2017)	Challenges And Facilities in higher education for persons with disability	150
6	One Day Training Programme (7th of March 2017)	ANTRACHAKSHU	100
7	Two-day National Conference(30-31st March 2017)	Rights Of Persons With Disabilities (RPWD) Act, 2016	250
8	One day Training Programme(2015)	Accessible Computing	20
9	Debate Programme(2015)	Reach out of reservation to Person with Disabilities	50
10	Two Day Workshop (March 23-24, 2022)	Sensitizing and Training Disabled People’s Organizations	110

International disability day is being celebrated every year, by HEPSN enabling unit of PU since 2010

Special sports events such as Chess (Visually Challenged vs. Sighted), Cricket (Physically Challenged vs. Abled), Tug of War (Differently able vs. Abled) Athletics (among differently abled), are being conducted on the occasion of International Disability Day

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