Running a beauty parlour can be tough. Some may think a person with disability can never do it. Visually impaired Dipti Kale from Maharashtra is proving them wrong. Dipti owns a parlour in Thane, Maharashtra and has built a loyal customer base.
For visually impaired, hearing impaired and orthopedically challenged people
Dates: December 20 to 26, 2019
Time: 8 am to 5 pm
Location: Dnjanraj Mangal Karyalaya, Chimbali Phata, Pune Nashik Highway, Khed Pune- 410501
Email: saksham@minda.co.in
Telephone: 7447426191, 7447426192
PUNE The All India Chess Federation for Blind (AICFB) was established in 1997 and currently has 14 state-affiliated bodies under its domain. Charudatta Jadhav, president of AICFB, says finance is always a struggle and a lack of government support does not ease the sport for the visually impaired.
How different is blind chess from the normal game?
An entrepreneur finds a need in the market develops a product or service to meet that need. Customers are happy, he employs people to scale, posts profits, he is happy. Economy smiles, GDP steady, s/he opens pursestrings to ensure corporate social responsibility and those beneficiaries are now happy.
Welcome to corporate utopioa. Except when, doing greater good is the business. The grease that ensures the wheels turn is not a pretty subject, but without it, the wheels will come off.
BENGALURU : For Varsha U, life has been a challenging journey as she was born with partial blindness. Over the years, her vision got weaker and by the time Varsha turned 16, she went completely blind. However, her childhood interest in sports and athletics grew stronger and today, she is a part of India’s first domestic national cricket league for blind women in Delhi to represent Karnataka. The tournament has been organised by Cricket Association for the Blind in India and supported by Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled.
Invitation for the visually impaired students to participate in South Indian Level Singing Competition* *to be held at Radha Regent 5 star hotel ,Chennai on Tuesday ,21st January 2020.
Nethrodaya is a social service institution established by a visually impaired on 2nd October 2002. It is recognized by Rehabilitation council of India. Our institution was awarded as “THE BEST INSTITUTION “, by the govt. of TamilNadu for the outstanding services to the differently abled community in TamilNadu.
People with visually impairment who work at banks complained that some of them are not provided with tools, such as screen readers, required to perform their job.
At the first general body meeting of Visually Impaired Bank Employees Welfare Association (VIBEWA) held in Secunderabad on Sunday, members of the association have resolved to pursue departments concerned to address their issues, including money allotted for commuting between home and office.
BANK OF MAHARASHTRA
Human Resources Management Department
LOKMANGAL,1501, SHIVAJINAGAR,
PUNE-5
TELE-020 : 25614270-74
e-mail : bomcoper@mahabank.co.in
Advt. AX1/ ST/RP/GENERALIST OFFICER/2019-20
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit https://www.bankofmaharashtra.in/writereaddata/documentlibrary/b394acf6-d9b9-436b-98d7-a5803fd49c07.pdf
Mitra Jyothi announces the launch of a new course for the visually impaired: Accessibility Testing.
Training for persons with vision impairment
Now you can be independent and earn well by helping other people.
*Enrol yourself in our Relaxation MASSAGE training
If you want to get admission in this course then it is compulsory to
have at least 10th pass.
So far 225 people have been trained by this course and they are working in
different places.
I –Stem along with their partners are organizing their Annual Hackathon to bring abled and differently abled people together on January 17 & 18, 2020 at IIIT Bangalore to hack on social impact problems.
The event has four components.
A city-based medical science startup is gearing up to halt the progress of degenerative eye disease in Indians after trials in blind rats showed the creatures regaining their sight in a few months.
Heidrick Resources
Plot no-60/9, second floor, right hand side,yusuf sarai,green park, New Delhi , 110049
Interview date: 7 /12 /2019 1 1 AM.
Job role : HR recruiter trainee.
Disability: low vision female aspirant.
Age 18- 25.
Academic qualification: graduate in any stream or 12th pass.
Excellent communication and should know MS office
Job location Green park New Delhi.
Contact person Satvir Jogi 9768871719
Timcy Agarwal 7011612610
Person can also send mail at
This Saturday on 7 December Big Bazaar has something new planned as part of its #SabkeLiye accessible shopping experience. Called Able Hands, this is a first of its kind initiative where disabled people get to interact with non-disabled people . This initiative is being rolled in 292 ramp-enabled stores.
MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL URDU UNIVERSITY (MANUU) HYDERABAD
(A Central University) Gachibowli, Hyderabad – 500 032 (Accredited "A" Grade by NAAC)
Notification No.59/2019 dated 26.11.2019
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://www.manuu.ac.in/employment/Information-Booklet-EN%2059-2019-Teaching-27-11-2019.pdf
The filled-in application should reach through Speed/Registered post on or before 24th December, 2019
A Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor has developed a Braille model to teach chemistry to visually-challenged students. Talking about his research, professor BS Balaji said he had developed a simple lock-and-key model to teach chemistry concepts to visually-impaired students. He added that owing to the current limitations in science education for blind students, he had designed the model to address these shortcomings.
Mumbai-based NGO Voice Vision’s Entrepreneurial Idea Award for 2019 were announced this week. The aim of the awards is to encourage visually impaired with the view to enable the community to be job creators rather than job seekers.
Course Duration: 3 months, from 2nd January, 2020 to 31st March, 2020.
Classes will be held
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday.
Last date for registration 18th December, 2019.
About the Course
this batch of the Diploma in Computer Application and Access Technology course is targeted at increasing the employability skills of visually impaired adults. This course will also help employed visually impaired persons in increasing efficiency and productivity at their workplace.
Government of India
Staff Selection Commission
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions,
Block No. 12, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi - 110003.
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit https://ssc.nic.in/SSCFileServer/PortalManagement/UploadedFiles/Notice_chsl_03122019.pdf
Our guest columnist this week is Turab Chimthanawala. Turab, who is visually impaired, is a company secretary currently working in Mumbai. His hobby is to blog about his experiences and learnings from his tryst with visual disability.
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