Do you know India is home to over 20 percent of the world’s blind population? Nearly 40 million people in India, including 1.6 million children, are blind or visually impaired. At Medicircle we are conducting the Empowering the blind series on the occasion of World Braille Day. We feel braille is not just a code but a source for the empowerment of the Blind.
Social Etiquette, Successful Inclusion?
Silver Linings Dignity Girls & Boys invite:
Date: 17th January Sunday
Time: 3 pm to 5pm
Discussion on: Social Etiquette, Successful Inclusion?
Venue: online Google Meet
To join, please click the link below on the mentioned date and time:
https://meet.google.com/rqz-cbwf-ryv
Meet you soon! Preeti Monga
Kaavya Sandhya
A poetry competition for the Visually Challenged!_
On the occasion of Lantern 2021,
Team Vision Foundation invites Visually Challenged Poets to participate and recite their own poetries.
No restriction of theme
Language : English / Hindi / Marathi
*No Age Bar.
*Only for the Visually Challenged.
*Self written/composed poetry Only.
*Participation Certificate will be provided to every participant.
*Best Poetries will be awarded with Amazing Prizes.
Last date of registration : 21st January 2021, 11:55 PM
On popular demand Bookshare presents a detailed demonstration on using Outlook for Windows.
Date: 17th January 21.
Time: 11 AM IST.
During this session details shall be presented such as:
Setting up Outlook
Different views in Outlook
The outlook calendar.
Creating and sending e-mails from Outlook.
Importing your Google contacts in Outlook.
The session will be conducted on zoom and will also be broadcast live on YouTube.
Those who wish to enjoy the session on YouTube are requested to subscribe to our
India enacted a law to protect the interests of migrant workers in 1979 with all good intentions. It ensured fair and decent conditions of employment along with the licensing of contractors who employ migrant workers, said details of all migrant workers should be provided to the relevant authorities and had a host of other good features. Yet this country saw the utter misery of the migrant workers during the Covid lockdown, with thousands marching home on foot with nothing to hang on to except their miserable belongings.
Jalandhar, January 12
DC Ghanshyam Thori directed the Health Department to organise special camps in the district to speed up the enrollment of specially-abled persons for the Unique Disability Identity Card (UDID).
Recently, the Supreme Court's Justice Chandrachud made a remark at the valedictory ceremony at an international summit on the theme Legal Professionals with Disabilities on the International D
ECGC Ltd.
(A Government of India Enterprise)
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ayLzoGXPwGmfAluv8F-WjkQOVU-p2V6O/view
Last date for Online registration : 31.01.2021
The online examination for selection of personnel for the post of Probationary Officer in ECGC Ltd.
Candidates are advised to regularly check the details and updates at ECGC website www.ecgc.in.
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, January 11
Deprived of state pension schemes and other medical facilities due to the unavailability of identity cards, the inmates of Pingla Ghar on Monday received their Aadhaar cards. The members of state advisory body for the disabled people organised a camp to make Aadhaar cards of the physically disabled and elderly people.
ITANAGAR, 11 Jan: Chief Minister Pema Khandu stressed on the need for empowering the people with disabilities to build an inclusive society.
He said this during a meeting with the Secretary for Persons with Disabilities (PwD) Department under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (MSoJE), Shakuntala D Gamlin on Monday.
He assured his full support for establishment of a national institute, an ancillary unit and a composite regional centre (CRC) for the people with disabilities in Arunachal.
Registrations Open for a Workshop on Theatre with the Visually Impaired
This Thursday, on Eyeway Encounters, you can learn techniques of acting and drama. Grab this opportunity to explore the space of theatre as a blind person, with veteran theatre personality Sumit Lai Roy.
Don't miss the chance to be selected as one of the twenty best participants for further intensive sessions. Hurry and register!
Session Date and Time: January 14, 4 pm to 5 pm
Mode of session: Online using Zoom
Please register using the Google form link below.
Government of India
Joint Recruitment Board,
Tripura (JRBT)
Directorate of Employment Services & Manpower Planning,
Office Lane,
Agartala, Tripura
Phone: 0381-2324327
Website: https://employment.tripura.gov.in
Email: dir-employment-tr@nic.in
Advt: No. 02/2020
Mobility techniques play a crucial role in independent movement of Visually Challenged Persons. One of the important aspects to this is the technique of Echo Location which is consciously or unconsciously being used by Visually Challenged Persons in locating ways and environment while moving around. What is Echo Location? Is it merely a technique or science? Is it important for Visually Challenged or others also?
By Payal Jethra
Indic Trust Lucknow is pleased to announce the board exam special for class ten and twelve. Indic trust will be sending you guides, samples papers, important questions, guess questions to visually impaired students. Students need to send whatsapp messages to us and the necessary materials will be sent to them. The service will continue till the Board examinations. Student needs to just send a WhatsApp message to 8604469165.
Currently all guides and sample papers are in english medium and hindi medium books will come by first week of february 2021.
From advocates to artists, from lawyers and models, from doctors to judges, it is time to realise that people with disabilities are so much more! Here is Newz Hook’s list of the 20 Disabled People with a Global Voice you must follow.
Greta Thunberg, Disabled climate change advocate
Bookshare in partnership with the developers of Loui Voice Control demonstrated a session on using the ‘Loui Voice Control app for android’.
The session which was held on the 3rd Jan. can be visited again on our YouTube page at Loui Voice control
We encourage one and all to subscribe to our channel at: India Bookshare YouTube channel
Sia Bankar
Membership Support [Asia & Africa].
Contact us: +919650211575
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As we understand many of you may want to utilise this uncertain COVID time to enhance the skills for improving efficiency and productivity in work or studies. Considering this, Enable India in collaboration with Andhra Loyola College Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, offering an online course on fundamentals of google applications for persons with vision impairment in Andhra and Telangana region.
By Shruti Pushkarna
New Year is all about hope. We go to bed on December 31, hoping that there will be something miraculously different about January 1. There is almost a Cinderella feel to it. For a short period, most of us believe that we will wake up to a changed, better scenario. I’ve decided to indulge myself too, and make this last piece of the year, all about what I want to see in 2021.
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