Vikram Sharma
Tribune News Service
Jammu, February 19
Blind since birth, but Azhra Qureshi (27) from Rajouri district has a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Jammu and has also qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET).
Now, Azhra wants to do PhD and is looking for avenues.
NEW DELHI: Delhi University Vice-Chancellor (V-C) Yogesh Tyagi is showing the light to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to empower visually impaired students. The Delhi University in collaboration with te ministry will provide blind-friendly smartphones with new features.
“Whoever wins and forms the next government should be able to address the important issues of unemployment in Punjab. There should be job opportunities for everyone, including the physically disabled,” said Vikram Singh, a first-time voter and a visually impaired student at the Institute of Blind in the city. About 35 visually impaired voters, four of them being first-timers, cast their votes today using the Punjabi Braille script ballot papers in the city.
Snehadeep Trust for the Disabled, an NGO, will conduct a four-month free training course on soft skills, basic computer skills and job orientation from February 15. Those who are physically and visually challenged and/or are hearing impaired can
apply. They must be aged between 18 and 35. For more details, send an email to snehadeeptrust@gmail.com or call 080-25801069 / 99720 77673.
Tribune News Service
Shimla, February 2
As many as 250 visually impaired, who are eligible for Class-III and Class-IV jobs under 1 per cent cadre quota, have accused the state government, including various corporations, of violating the Supreme Court orders passed on October 8, 2013, by not filling the posts reserved for them.
He is visually impaired, has formally studied up to Class 3 only. Yet, he is knowledgeable enough to give home tuitions to students of Class 12.
No matter how you look at him, Niranjan Kumar Jha, 37, stands in a class of his own.
After three attempts, Neetin Agarwal created a one-stop repository of online and offline audio-visual educational content to enrich the learning journeys of lakhs of urban and rural students.
Mamita Bai has passed the Second Division Assistant (SDA) exam of the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) and is currently waiting for a posting.
That seems nothing extraordinary, but in the case of this 21-year-old, it is a feat. Mamita is 50 per cent blind and suffers from a condition that will eventually make her fully blind. Worse, she has received little support from her own parents because of her disability.
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Tuesday issued a notice to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in connection with a complaint by a visually impaired woman alleging cancellation of appointment in the Ministry of Railways due to her disability.
Posting reallocated
It's not easy to crack this test, but this visually-challenged young man has “belled the CAT”!
Ambati Venkata Prem Swaroop has scored an impressive 82.87 percentile points in the Common Admission Test (CAT-2016). The score may not be big, but factoring in his visual impairment, it is more than impressive, as it requires a mere 60 percentile points for People With Disabilities (PWD) to get through.
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