HYDERABAD: In spite of various campaigns and awareness initiatives taken by the health administration, the number of people suffering from blindness is rising in Hyderabad and more than 6,000 people are waiting for corneal transplantation in the district.
CHENNAI: Reservation for the differently-abled in government jobs will be increased to five per cent from the present three per cent. The Bill for this has been examined by a Parliamentary Standing Committee, Lov Verma, secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, said on Wednesday.
After a wait of at least two decades, a group of visually-impaired persons led by Anil Khurana has won half the battle for a residential accommodation at a plot which was sanctioned to the Poona Blind Men’s Association (PBMA) in Hadapsar. Anil Khurana had alleged that two hectares in Sector 93/2 in Mauje Mohammadwadi had been awarded to the PBMA for a primary health centre and a residential home for the blind, but the plot housed a hospital only.
CHENNAI: Madras High Court has directed public sector insurance giant LIC to keep vacant three per cent of the posts in the current recruitment for Apprentice Development Officers for persons with disabilities.
NEW DELHI: Only 0.56 percent of students with disabilities are pursuing higher education in the country, a survey has revealed.
The Bombay High Court Wednesday directed an expert committee set up by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to look into the issue of quantification of learning disability (LD) in terms of percentage. The committee has been set up to look into the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014. The Bill will replace the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995.
KOCHI: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday upheld a Single Bench order directing the Kannur University to consider Prasanna Kumary, a visually impaired woman, for appointment as Lecturer in Law.
AHMEDABAD: Such was the apathy of the state government towards the visually impaired that, when the high court ruled in favour of 11 blind candidates, asking the education department to provide jobs to them in November 2012, in February 2013, the government brought out a notification restricting the appointment. The division bench of justice Jayant Patel and justice Z K Saiyed on June 12, 2013 had taken a serious note of this notification.
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