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Disability Awareness program for the students with disabilities

Disability Awareness program for the students with disabilities

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Disability Awareness program for the students with disabilities
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<strong>Disability Awareness Program-2015</strong> JNU as one of the pioneering universities of India has more than 300 students with various disabilities in its different Schools and departments. The gigantic size of the campus and student population poses big challenges to students with disabilities in terms of barrier free infrastructure, academic facilities and accessible accommodation. JNU has taken a lot of initiatives to address various issues raised by disabled student community so it is extremely necessary to impart the information of existing disabled friendly facilities and policies to the new students and also to recognize the crucial areas in the goal of barrier free university which have not been achieved so far. <strong>Equal Opportunity Office</strong> <strong>The students with disabilities of JNU </strong> organised <strong>Disability Awareness program for the students with disabilities</strong> The aim of the program is to provide a wholesome knowledge about the disability policy adopted by JNU to ensure a barrier free environment in their perusal. The Awareness Program aims to find the answers of the long standing problems faced by the disabled students. <strong>on 17th October 2015.</strong>

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.