Just one touch or the aroma of the herbs was enough. Whether it was curry leaves, betel leaves, omavalli, aloe vera or tulasi, a group of visually challenged students got their answers right.
Along with it, they learned the benefits of the common herbal plants.
Chandigarh, July 24
A sensory park for people with special needs is set to come up in Sector 35-D.
To be built under the Smart City Mission, the park will have a combination of sensory-integrated play equipment and amenities, along with green area. The park, which will be built at an estimated cost of Rs 93 lakh, is aimed at stimulating the five senses — taste, sight, touch, smell and hearing. The charges for its upkeep for five years have been kept at Rs 65 lakh.
डॉ. शकुन्तला मिश्रा राष्ट्रीय पुनर्वास विश्वविद्यालय के दृष्टिहीन सहित सभी दिव़्यांग विद्यार्थी छात्रावास की बढ़ी हुई फीस जमा करने का बहिष्कार करेंगे। साथ ही उन्होंने छात्रावास में रहने की अधिकतम सीमा 8 वर्ष करने की मांग की है। दूसरी ओर बुधवार को भी दिव्यांग अस्थाई छात्रावास पाने के लिए भटकते रहे। उनकी सहायता करने वाला कोई नहीं है।
STATE BANK OF INDIA CENTRAL RECRUITMENT & PROMOTION DEPARTMENT CORPORATE CENTRE, MUMBAI (Phone: 022-2282 0427;
Fax: 022-2282 0411;
E-mail: crpd@sbi.co.in)
ADVERTISEMENT No. CRPD/SCO/2019-20/08
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit https://www.sbi.co.in/webfiles/uploads/files/careers/20072019_Detailed%20Advertisement%20SCO-2019-20-08.pdf
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 https://nyks.nic.in/recruitment/FinalGuidelinesnewrecruitment_3rd%20batch18.07.2019%20(1).pdf
Last date for submission of On-line application : 07.08.2019
The High Court on Tuesday sought details from the State Government about measures taken to rehabilitate the pellet-blinded and other visually impaired persons.
A division bench of Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Rashid Ali Dar directed State’s senior additional Advocate General BA Dar to place before it the details within two days facilities available within for empowering visually impaired persons and those which have been blinded and have suffered injuries by use of pellet guns.
UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
Advt. No. Estab. IV/280/2019 dated 19.07.2019
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://www.du.ac.in/du/uploads/Advertisement2017/19072019/19072019_3%20vacancy%20280%20Prof%2019072019.pdf
The last date for receipt of application is 08.08.2019
For the past one-and-a-half years, Abhishek Thakur has been keenly following the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) announcements; not because he is particularly interested in its monetary policy but because he is visually impaired and wishes to know what India’s central bank proposes to do in response to PILs in courts regarding ‘inaccessibility’ of its new series of currency notes.
“This is my long Facebook post from 2 years ago (2017). Every single word is still very true today. We are still seeking compassion and still trying to educate others. If you haven’t read it, please do. If you have, thank you! It is a great reminder about what my family goes through still.” ~ Chrissy Terry
Job Fair on 30th July, 2019
Timing 10:30 am - 04:30 pm
Venue National Association for the Blind R. K. Puram Sector 5 South Delhi 110022
Qualifications Graduation
SSC NASSCOM in association and collaboration with National Association for the Blind (NAB) is organising Placement drive for the PwD candidates.
Aspiring candidates with Visual and Locomotor disability are welcome to participate in this job drive.
4-5 corporates will mark their presence to provide opportunity to the deserving candidates, willing to join the IT/ ITES industry.
Thiruvananthapuram: A new initiative, a preparatory school/ kindergarten for visually challenged children, is being launched by Tiffany Brar, visually challenged and founder of Jyothir-gamaya here.
The school, the first of its kind in the state, will be inaugurated by social justice minister K.K. Shailaja, on Friday. Tiffany, 28, belonging to Thiruvananthapuram, runs ‘Jyothirgamaya,’ her own social project for the visually impaired, in a rented building at Kurava-nkonam–Vayilikkada road.
UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
Advt. No. Estab. IV/279/2019 dated 15.07.2019
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://www.du.ac.in/du/uploads/Advt_2019/advt279/1507201_Vacancy.pdf
The last date for receipt of application is 04.08.2019
Madurai: The state government has given an undertaking before the Madurai bench of Madras high court agreeing to allot an MBBS seat to a visually impaired medical aspirant.
Read more: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/state-agrees-to-allot-mbbs-seat-to-visually-impaired-aspirant/articleshow/70252192.cms
Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
(Established by the State Legislature Act No.21 of 1969)
Advertisement No. 4/2019
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://online.gndu.ac.in/pdf/adv_4_2019.pdf
Last date for on-line Registration/submission of application. : 02.08.2019
Online applications are invited from eligible candidates for various Teaching and NonTeaching posts in the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar as per details given below:
Hindi Scan to Speech reading software.
The software has been developed keeping in mind the features which been missing till now. It's main feature are given below:
· Has inbuilt Hindi OCR which provides the output in Unicode text and has high recognition accuracy
· Adjust the reading speed and volume as per your requirement.
· Navigation: We can navigate the text between sentence and paragraph mode.
· Voices: Comes with Lekha voice as standard. Neel voice is available separately as well.
KAKINADA: Inmates of a government orphanage for visually impaired persons on Tuesday staged a protest in front of the orphanage home demanding the government provide them proper facilities. The protesters locked the office of the orphanage to prevent the staff from attending to their duties.
HYDERABAD: “Even charity has become a rat race today. We have many NGOs which claim to do good work for the visually impaired, but there are very few which actually empower them.
There are, however, a few institutes like LV Prasad Eye Institute and ‘youth4jobs’ who are putting in phenomenal efforts to help them. Our organisation wants to be the bridge connecting these institutes with the visually impaired,” says Uma Shankar Veeravalli from the ‘Voice of VIP’.
72% of India's disabled children between 0-5 years miss out on an education, while just 61% of disabled children between 5 to 19 years attend school, says a UN report. Things the draft National Education Policy fails to take into account, as disability rights activist Shampa Sengupta points out.
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