Opening Date of Application:- 31/01/2019
Closing Date of Application:- 05/03/2019
Number of Vacancies :- (Total-110- (UR-55, OBC-31, SC-16, ST-08) including PH-5(OH-04, VH-01).
Educational Qualification:
Essential : 1. Master's Degree in social work or Master of Art (Sociology) or Post Graduate Degree in Criminology from a recognized University/Institute.
Mumbai: White Print, India’s first English Lifestyle Magazine in Braille launches ‘Look Out, Look Within’ – a story book in print, braille and sign language.
Tactopus brings to the world accessible interactive tangible learning
experiences for children.
Visually impaired, hearing impaired and speech impaired persons now have help in hand by way of a novel device — BDD (Blind-Deaf-Dumb) Assist.
The device has been developed by Rochana HM, a student of II PUC at AMC College here and he has filed for patent for it.
Thanks to technology, the range of recreational activities available for people with visual disabilities are many. Visually impaired people must look at the choices that are available and choose that suits their interests most. There are community programs as well where people can meet others socially.
For Simran Chawla, a beauty pageant winner, dancing is among her favourite recreational activities.
Here are some recreational activities that visually impaired people could look:
Guwahati: For the first time, the Class X state board exams — beginning on Thursday — will have question paper in Braille.
This time, there are 13 blind candidates appearing for the exam from five examination centres in the state.
The general science question paper will be offered in Braille. While visually challenged candidates appearing for the boards under the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (Seba) have to appear for all six papers, the syllabus for general science and general maths they follow are different.
Chitralekha Vanamamalai
For volunteer-scribe Padmini, service is for pure soul satisfaction and nothing else in this world can give her that satisfaction.
A resident of Virugambakkam, Chennai, for the last two decades, she has been helping many visually challenged persons pass examinations.
Speaking to News Today, Padmini said the job of a volunteer scribe does not end with writing the exam for them but many a time it is more than that.
This project on Road Safety & Mobility is supported by Goodyear.
Speak! is an app designed to aid the visually impaired and others that require reading assistance.
The app takes advantage of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology. It will read any text captured by the camera. It can be used to read anything from street signs to newspapers. The app has been specifically designed to detect text in "bad photos", for instance when the text is rotated or far away. In addition it knows to detect relevant text only, for example when photographing a page in a book, text captured on the adjacent page will be ignored.
Department of Posts - India
O/o Chief Postmaster General,
A.P. Circle,
Vijayawada-520013
No. RE/APCO/3-7/DR/2017-18 dated at Vijayawada-13
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://www.appost.in
Last date for final submission of application through online: 08.03.2019
Direct Recruitment to Cadre of Postman/Main Guard
New partnership aims to deliver a comprehensive solution, set to enable blind and visually impaired people to travel, work, and live independently
Ludhiana: With exams looming ahead, there are some visually impaired students who are trying their best to write exams and score well like normal children, but they are unable to find writers who can write their class 12 examination. TOI spoke to two of them.
CENTRAL TEACHER ELIGIBILITY TEST
CTET-JULY 2019
INFORMATION BULLETIN
CONDUCTED BY CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION, DELHI
CENTRAL TEACHER ELIGIBILITY TEST UNIT PS 1-2, INSTITUTIONAL
AREA, I P EXTENSION, PATPARGANJ, DELHI-110092
Date for Submission of On-Line Application: 05-02-2019 to 05-03
-2019
Last date for submission of On-line Application: 05-03-2019
Last date for submission of fee: 08-03-2019 (Before 03.30 PM)
Earlier this year, I opened my Foundation’s quarterly newsletter by quoting the question I am most often asked at interactions, “What would you have been if you weren’t disabled?” I have always believed that it is unrealistic for someone with a locomotor disability like mine to aspire to run like P.T. Usha (I loved cricket as a child and, upon realising I could never play the mainstream game, wanted to be a commentator).
All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE)
(A Statutory Body of Govt. of INdia)
Nelson Mandela Marg, Vasant Kunj,
New Delhi-110070
Advt. No. Admn/Estt./01(03)/2019
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit https://www.aicte-india.org/sites/default/files/IMG_0001.pdf or refer to the Employment News dated 2nd February 2019, page no.25
Last date for Receipt of the application: 28.02.2019
on behalf of Indian Blind Sports Association,extend a warm invitation to you and your friends, for participating in
the very first three-day sound ball tennis workshop scheduled to be organised from 19th February 2019 in the city of Mumbai. This workshop is absolutely free, with decent arrangements for lunch and high tea at
the courts of Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association campus at Colaba, Mumbai.
Please note that we’re unable to provide accommodation. Thus, it would be most feasible for folks in and around Mumbai.
Background:
India's first blind athlete to participate in Paralympic Games and winner of three medals in 2014 Incheon Para Asian Games, Ankur Dhama's life story is all about achieving success even when there are thousand and one hurdles blocking your path.
The 24-year-old Dhama, who hails from a small village in Uttar Pradesh fight against all odds to become the first totally blind Indian athlete in 2018 to win the prestigious Arjuna Award for his outstanding contribution in the field of para-athletics.
Mumbai, February 5
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked the Reserve Bank of India to think about developing a mobile phone application that could help visually-challenged persons identify the denomination of various currency notes in India.
A bench of Chief Justice Naresh Patil and Justice NM Jamdar also directed RBI to expedite its ongoing project to develop a hardware-driven device that will help the blind identify Indian currency denominations.
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