When an examination body provides the scribe, must the candidate be given time to interact with the scribe before the examination?

Yes. At least two days' time should be provided to enable the candidate to interact with the scribe, so as to familiarise the scribe and the aspirant candidate, particularly where the scribe must read out and write the responses for a visually challenged candidate.

Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 — s.2(r) — s.2(s) — Constitution of India — Art.32 — Reasonable accommodation — Scribe — Entrance examination — Guidelines — Notification in advance — Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 — Reasonable accommodation — Guidelines to be notified with the advertisement — Held: Guidelines governing the facilities to be extended to PwD candidates must be notified sufficiently in advance and, in any event, together with the advertisement placing the examination schedule in the public domain, so that candidates are not left in a state of uncertainty. (¶17) Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 — s.2(s) — Scribe where disability is below the benchmark — Held further: A candidate with a specified disability who has difficulty in writing is entitled to the facility of a scribe and compensatory time on production of a certificate from the competent medical authority of a Government healthcare institution. (¶10) Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 — Qualification of the scribe — integrity of the examination — Held further: An examination body may require that the scribe be not qualified above the 11th standard and not be affiliated to any test-preparatory organisation or examination coaching centre, where it undertakes to provide such a scribe itself. (¶25, 27) Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 — Guidelines not frozen — liberty to modify — Held further: The nature and contents of such Guidelines cannot be frozen for the future and remain open to modification as experience is gained in conducting the examination. Writ Petition and Miscellaneous Application disposed of. (¶28, 29)

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