Naina Mishra
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 11
Head held high with a gregarious demeanour, a confident Tiffany Brar walks into the room with a white cane in a hand, guided through her inner light.
Hyderabad: To control diabetic retinopathy and retinopathy of prematurity, more than 80,000 people were scanned in the 14 states of India including Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh to ensure that the avoidable blindness can be controlled.
It is found that lapses in the care of diabetic patient and lack of awareness among people are leading to the blindness.
NATIONAL FERTILIZERS LIMITED
(A Government of India Undertaking)
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Sunday saw Thane’s first-ever wheelchair marathon, where 30 participants inspired the spectators as they raced towards the finish line. This was part of the sixth edition of the Sheth Half Marathon, where over 2,000 participants ran from Viviana Mall to Sheth Avalon.
The 2-km wheelchair race category winners were Subhanshu Patel, Hadis Sheikh and Nisha Gupta. The marathon had a 10-km run for both men and women, where Kunal Kelusker stood first in the men’s section and Manasi Samudra won first place in the women’s section.
Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Saturday said the success of public health interventions is dependent on a healthy partnership between the government, NGOs and private sectors.
Taking part in the 15th annual conference of ‘Vision 2020: The Right to Sight - India’ organised by Aravind Eye Care System, he said deliberations would bring out new ideas to increase the effectiveness of eye care service delivery models.
NORTH EASTERN INDIRA GANDHI REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH & MEDICAL SCIENCES, (NEIGR)
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Over 70 million Indians have a disability, making a compelling case for financial inclusion to be built in, in every aspect of our lives. Compelling from the point of social justice as well as business sense. Yet, this doesn’t get reflected. A huge gap that needs to be addressed, as a Reserve Bank of India’s high-level committee emphasies.
Oil India Limited (OIL),
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LAST DATE OF RECEIVING APPLICATION: 08.07.2019
Course Duration: 3 months, from July (first week) 2019. Classes will be held from 10 am to 5 pm Monday to Saturday.
Last date for registration on 16 June 2019.
About the Course
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.
Oguz Karadag from Turkey has invented a new device that he claims will help visually impaired students do practical math with ease. This is a major breakthrough as traditionally many blind students are not encouraged to pursue math at higher grades.
Turkey-based Oguz Karadag struggled to learn geometry as he is visually impaired. So Karadag, who dreamed of becoming a mechanical engineer, decided to create a device of his own. The device, as yet unnamed, will reportedly help visually impaired people learn mathematics and geometry with ease.
In My Take this week, we have Kartik Sawhney, a visually impaired disability rights activist and software engineer who works with Microsoft in the United States.
High Court, Bombay
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit https://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/recruitment/PDF/recruitbom20190531171502.pdf
Last date for submission of On-line application: June 17th 2019
Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS)
An Autonomous Body of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports Government of India
Ground Floor, Jeevan Deep Building,
4 Parliament Street,
New Delhi – 110001
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://nyks.nic.in/recruitment/FinalGuidelinesRecruitmentofVariousPosts(03.06.2019).pdf
Last date for online application: 19th June 2019
Chandigarh, June 3
No less than an architectural marvel, Pierre Jeanneret’s chequerboard-style Panjab University has apparently failed its disabled students when it comes to accessibility.
The varsity’s buildings fail to comply with the ‘Harmonised Guidelines and Space Standards for Barrier-free built Environment for Persons with Disability and Elderly Persons’ as prescribed by the Ministry of Urban development in 2016. The guidelines include a 16-point Access Audit Checklist.
Varsha’s voice bubbles with excitement as she shares her feelings about experiencing a painting for the first time. “I have seen a dog, swan, sun, moon, flowers and birds,” she says. A visually impaired person, she describes with glee everyday objects most of us take for granted.
At a little distance from her were about 20 paintings created with primary colours and scenes from nature but with tactile quality.
Nagaland University
Headquarters: Lumami-798627
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Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit
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Last date of receipt of applications is : 01.07.2019
Applications are invited on prescribed format from the eligible candidates for the various Teaching posts under Nagaland University as indicated below:
Chandigarh, June 3
More than 10 visually impaired and ambulatory disabled PwD students of the PU marched from the Chemistry Department canteen to the Vice-Chancellor office at the university here on today.
They shouted the slogans of inclusivity and demanded a representation in the newly formed committee for RPwD Act, Syndicate, Senate and other governing bodies of the PU.
Diabetes and diabetes-related complications are on the rise. India and China are global leaders having the highest number of people with Diabetes Mellitus (DM). Diabetes, a multisystem disease, can affect small blood vessels (eye, kidney and nerves)and larger blood vessels in the body (heart and brain).
Desai foundation for
Change is ready to open another batch of spoken English online training for visually impaired. Our training is divided in to two courses
1. Academic course: in this course, candidate will learn the English language from beginning. We have 4 level in this course, namely, foundation, basic, intermediate and advance.
2. . functional course: this course is a platform for those who knows English language. But need to practice.
Training requirements: candidates course or course level will be determined by pretest,
The Blind Graduates Forum of India brings to you yet another experiential learning session that you will eternally cherish.
The Mumbai Metro turns 5 this year and what better way to celebrate than with all of us? Here’s your chance to know more about the metro system and its features, accessibility and enjoy a ride on the metro.
This will be followed by a tasty lunch.
When: Saturday, 8th June, 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. followed by lunch at 1 P.M.
Where: Andheri metro station
What You Can Expect:
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