NEW DELHI: Coming to the rescue of a visually impaired girl, the Delhi high court has directed Delhi University to provide her hostel facility till October next year to complete PhD. The court also asked the hostel management to treat her as a student and desist from asking her to pay the hostel charges as a guest.
Allowing the plea of Kumud Rani Garg, a bench of Justices Pardeep Nandrajog and Manmohan Singh asked DU to allocate her a room in three days. "We dispose of the petition issuing a mandamus to the university to re-allot the hostel seat to the petitioner and to ask for the normal mess and residency charges and not guest charges. The fee would not be charged for the duration she was not allowed to reside in the hostel," the bench said. It rejected DU's argument that "the university rules / ordinance has an outer limit of residency as six years with entitlement to be extended by six months on special considerations". In the hostel, 3% seats are reserved for visually, hearing and physically impaired students.
