I inform with pride that our Indian para swimmer Ms. Kanchanmala pande, a totally blind international swimmer and working in RBI, has bagged gold medal at ongoing IPC world para swimming championship at Mexico City in 200 M Individual medley.
Asma Ali is happy. It has been two-and-a-half-year since she joined the Chandigarh’s Sector 7, Madhya Marg branch of the state Bank of India.
Having braved the challenges imposed for being 100% visually impaired from birth, she says she is satisfied that today she is self-dependent.
Everyday she attends customers at the front desk of her branch and patiently guides them. She handles the entries in the passbooks and issues token to the customers. “I feel very confident and independent by working here at the bank,” she says.
MARGAO
The state government has passed the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 (Central Act), however, the rules are being framed and the file in this regard has been forwarded to the law department, informed Social Welfare Minister Pandurang Madkaikar.
He was speaking as a chief guest at a programme held to commemorate International Day for Persons with Disabilities here, on Tuesday.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University’s (IGNOUs) National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS) is organising a series of activities at IGNOU for observing International Day of Persons with Disabilities during November 30 to December 6, 2017.
A painting competition was organized on 30th November, 2017 for the wards of University staff members on the theme “Sports for Persons with Disabilities”. The children were divided into three age groups of below 8 years, between 8 to 12 years and 12 years to 17 years. A total of 45 children participated in the painting competition.
BENGALURU: For 30-year-old Nagaraju, November 26 was very unlike his normal days. This bank employee is used to finding his way to his office near Vidhana Soudha every day from his house in Kamala Nagar about 10 km away. However, that day, he had to head to Jakkur for a training programme and his routine went haywire. While for most people it just means just a change in bus route, for Nagaraju and his friend, it meant a world of planning. The reason — Nagaraju and Anil are part of the city’s visually impaired population.
The Supreme Court today asked Uttar Pradesh to come up a mechanism for promotion and facilitation of inclusive education, so that students suffering from disability are not kept away from mainstream education. The court sought a reply from the state government on how it would work out the provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, by providing inclusive education in the state.
New Delhi: The Cricket Association for Blind (CABI) on Monday announced a 17-member squad for the fifth ODI World Cup which will be held in Pakistan and Dubai from January 7 to 21, 2018. Apart from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Australia and South Africa are the other participating nations in the event.
Tribune News Service
Mohali, December 3
While all government buildings in the town are more or less disabled-friendly, apparently visually impaired persons were not kept in mind while designing even new buildings that have come up here recently.
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