BANGALORE: From adding voice announcement facility in lifts to providing motorized wheelchairs, the Indian B-schools are trying their best to help the physically abled students. Additionally, some of these top schools are even spending more time with students of learning disorders, adopting special software for the blind and encouraging volunteers to help them in their studies, reports Economic Times.

Following this development there are now about 73 such students performing their education in various IIMs and most of them have faced life’s hard struggle with visual, locomotive, hearing and learning disorders. The other factor is that most of these students were chosen on general quota at the insistence of few candidates, though 3 percent of the seats are reserved for the disabled in IIMs.

In term of infrastructural changes, there has been serious measure taken by the management of these top schools and various changes include setting up of classrooms and hostels on the needs of specially abled. Some of the IIMs are also in the process of creating a special centre where the needs and wants of the differently abled can be discussed and met.

 Debashis Chatterjee, director of IIM-K said, "There was difficulty in getting qualified DA students in the past. Now, the awareness has increased. This year we could fill up 10 seats out of the 12 in the DA category."

"Recruitments of the specially-abled tie in with our policy on inclusion, and students are assessed on a variety of factors, including marks and capabilities," said, Thiruvengadam, senior director, human capital, Deloitte.
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