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Support Services for People with Disabilities

JGU provides an inclusive and fair learning environment in which students and employees with disabilities have equal access to academic, social and extracurricular life.

Disability Support Committee (DSC)

The DSC is the main body supporting persons with long-term disabilities. Its work is guided by the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, and UGC guidelines, and its mandate to recommend reasonable accommodation derives from Section 16(3) of the Act. It supports students with physical and mobility challenges, visual and hearing impairments, chronic medical conditions, specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia and dysgraphia, autism, chronic neurological conditions, blood disorders and mental health conditions. In Spring 2025, 133 students were registered with the DSC, in Fall 2025 140, and in Spring 2026 150, and the DSC supported 7 to 14 JGU employees each semester.

How Registration Works

Students register with the DSC each semester, in three stages. In the first, the student fills in the registration form within the deadline. In the second, the student is assessed by a medical expert, with relevant documents. In the third, the recommended accommodations are communicated to course instructors and the Office of Academic Affairs of the school, with the DSC copied, and the student is sent a confirmation. Information about the nature of a disability is shared only with the medical experts, and the accommodations are shared with faculty and administrative departments on a need-to-know basis.

Services Available

  1. Personal assistants and interpreters: staff and volunteers help students navigate campus and receive academic and exam support, and scribes and readers are arranged for examinations.
  2. Academic adjustments: modified exam formats, extra time, note-taking help and alternative assignment options.
  3. Physical accessibility: ramps, elevators with Braille signage, 50 accessible washrooms, accessible hostel rooms and wheelchair-accessible electric carts.
  4. Technological support: screen readers, Braille displays, speech-to-text software and the Abhigamya library section, with three dedicated desktops.
  5. Mental health support: counselling and therapy through the Sukoon Centre for Mental Health and the Health Centre, which work alongside the DSC.

Peer and Community Support

  • Apoyo, a student-led disability inclusion society, offers peer help with accessible technology, citations and assignment formatting, and emotional support, and organises awareness events with the DSC. It complements the DSC, which remains the primary body for formal accommodations.
  • The Disability Inclusion Society raises awareness and advocates for accessibility.
  • The Centre for Neurodiversity Studies promotes awareness and acceptance through film screenings, workshops, training and peer circles.