Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, Pune
Dated: July 8, 1999
No. SB/Br. M/Regulation 5907

Amendment: Maharashtra Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board Act, 1965.

The following regulation further to amend the Maharashtra Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Boards' Regulations 1977, made by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education under sub-section (1) read with clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 36 of the Maharashtra Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Boards Act 1965 (MAH X LI of 1965) having been sanctioned by the State Government under sub-section (3) of section 36 of the said Act, are hereby published for general information:

1. These regulations may be called the Maharashtra Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Boards Amendment of 1999.
   
2. They shall be deemed to come into force from the date of Government Resolution.
   
3. In the Maharashtra Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Boards' Regulation 1977, in page no. 211 and serial no. 7, instead of the sentence: 'Students who will be required to submit concessions to blind, deaf, dumb, spastic physically disabled and learning disabled (dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia candidates), prescribed in regulation page no. 211 and sr. no. 7 the following shall be replaced.
   
   • Spastic candidates shall be given two hours extra to solve the question paper and learning disabled candidates shall be given an hour extra to solve the question paper. These candidates shall be permitted to type or write the answer scripts or they shall be permitted to take the help of a writer for the entire paper or part of the paper in case the candidate feels tired or too exhausted while typing or writing the paper. The writer will be provided in consultation with the head of the concerned institution.
     
     The writer shall be a person not directly concerned with teaching the candidate but able to understand the candidate's speech. They shall be chosen very carefully and instructed to write down exactly what the spastic, learning disabled candidate says to them.
     
     Before the examination commences, an undertaking shall be taken from the writer, to the effect that there will be no misuse of the concession. The institution shall arrange to provide typewriters, tables, chairs (specially made for such students) etc, if necessary, without any charge to the Board. However, the supervision charges at the time of the examination will be borne by the Board.
     
   • These candidates will be given nearest examination centre of their choice and further, the seating arrangement of these candidates shall be made in a separate room.
     
   • In the case of deaf and dumb and learning disabled candidates, teachers from the junior college concerned may be permitted a period of maximum 15 minutes to explain the question paper to the concerned candidates in the examination hall.
     
   • Deaf and dumb, spastic and learning disabled candidates shall be permitted to offer one language, i.e. English only instead of two languages. Candidates appearing under vocational group shall be permitted to offer only one permissible language i.e. English.
     
   • Deaf and dumb, spastic and learning disabled candidates selecting Arts, Commerce or Science stream shall be permitted to offer one language and five more subjects from the optional group instead of the two languages and four optional subjects.
     
   • In the case of blind, deaf and dumb, physically disabled, spastic and learning disabled candidates selecting vocational course, a certificate of having completed the course satisfactorily issued by the Head of the Institution specially recognised for imparting education to such students shall be considered valid for HSC examination.
     
   • Blind, spastic, physically disabled and learning disabled candidates shall be exempted from drawing figures, maps and graphs etc. and the marks for these shall be proportionately increased. However, all these candidates will have to appear for the practical examination in the respective subjects.

Chairman,
Maharashtra State Board of Secondary &
Higher Secondary Education & Additional
Director of Education, Maharashtra State,
Pune.