SLAT 2025 - Eligibility & Admission Criteria for Differently Abled Students

SLAT 2025 - Eligibility & Admission Criteria for Differently Abled Students

In compliance to Government directives on disability guidelines issued by the office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities vide Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, New Delhi notification no. 16-18/97 dated 01st June 2001 and University Grants Commission Notification No. F.6-1/2006 (CPP-II/SCT) dated 30/09/2009, SIU has made provision of reserving 3% seats for Differently Abled Category (DAC) candidates in all the programmes offered by all the Institutes of SIU.

# Differently Abled (DA) candidate means a candidate having any of the disabilities in accordance with the Persons with Disabilities Act – 1995 and as per revised Gazette of India Registered no: DL – (N)04/0007/2003-16 dated December 28,2016.

The types of disabilities covered are:

• Vision Impairment
• Hearing Impairment
• Locomotor Disabilities
• Mental Retardation
• Multiple Disabilities
• Dyslexia/Dysgraphia/ Dyscalculia

*Differently Abled (DA) candidate means a candidate having any of the disabilities in accordance with the Persons with Disabilities Act – 1995 and as per revised Gazette of India Registered no: DL – (N)04/0007/2003-16 dated December 28, 2016.

Process to be followed for Differently Abled Candidates (DAC):

• The candidate applying for the entrance examination/admission in the DAC (Differently Abled Category), selects the type of disability available in the DA options on the portal.
• A Differently Abled Category candidate is required to upload his/her copy of Disability Certificate issued by Competent Government Medical Authority the and Unique Disability ID (UD ID) Card at the time of registration for entrance/admission of SIU to ascertain percentage and the type of the disability.
• The Medical Superintendent, SUHRC through Medical Board shall ascertain the genuineness of the said documents. Once the documents are found authentic and correct by the Medical Board, SUHRC, his/her eligibility will be certified under the DA category.

Note – If a candidate selects a Differently Abled Category in the Registration form and s/he requires scribe/writer facility please note SIU will not be providing scribe/writer. The candidate has to make her/his own arrangement for scribe/writer. The qualification of scribe/writer should be a maximum 9th standard candidate or a maximum 9th standard passed candidate (Or Appearing 10th Standard). The scribe should not have completed studies beyond the 9th standard. Candidate should send the request to info@slat-test.org , on or before November 22,2024 (Friday) in case scribe/writer is required.

During the test, as per SIU Examination norms, a Differently Abled Candidate is provided with 20 minutes of compensatory time for every 60 minutes of the test.