Azad2008in his studies says that “Higher Education being at the apex of the educationalsystem is a necessary contribution for gathering the manpower requirements ofthe highest calibre in the crucial areas of countrywide improvement. It is alsoa significant contributory aspect for ensuring social justice by providingvertical mobility to depressed sections of society by making higher levels ofknowledge available to them and, in the process, improving quality life of thenation as a whole”. Diversity is seen in the college campuses .
There arestudents who may be disadvantaged in many ways for instance a student maybelong to a Scheduled Caste and also has a disability. The circumstances aremore lacking if the Schedule caste student with disability is a girl.Institutions require to be prepared to afford to the issues of such students. Shevlinet al. (2004) stated that students with disabilitieshave to overcome the dual obstacle of academic demands combined with theirdisability.
Disability becomes a public issue and the student’s privacy is lost.Many students, due to the fear of being labeled, avoid disclosing their disabilities.Majority of students with disabilities indicates that moving away from home touniversity or college is a time when they have to confront their disabilities. Livingat home with family and friends, going to a school which they have attended formany years, or coming from a village or locality where they are accepted, theirdisability has been a private matter. However, in coming to a new place a newinstitution, working with people they have never known disability becomes apublic matter.
Riddell(1998) develop her argument further by suggesting that thedominant medical discourse of disability directs the condition of support inhigher education to technical solutions. Support provision is thus based on the’assumption that an individual student’s problems could be remedied by aparticular piece of equipment, the classic “technological fix”. Whilethe provision of essential assistive devices such as a Brailing mechanism maybe necessary for some students, she emphasizes that using technology withoutconsiderate ‘the social context’ will not bring about the changes that aredesirable.
