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321 visually impaired candidates to take 2017 UTME – Official

Wed, 05/10/2017 - 10:41 -- geeta.nair

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has registered 321 visually impaired candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The Head, JAMB Information and Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday  in Bwari.

Benjamin said that the figure was higher than the 201 candidates registered for the examination in 2016.

He said that adequate arrangement has been made for the visually impaired candidates to participate fully in the forthcoming UTME.

Mobitel envisions bringing Vesak to visually impaired

Tue, 05/09/2017 - 11:12 -- geeta.nair

The National Mobile Service Provider, Mobitel plans to bring the light of joy to the visually impaired in the country during the Vesak season with the introduction of the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform to enable users to listen to the stories on display on five prominent Vesak Pandals in Colombo this year.

Users can call the short code 565 from any Mobitel number to listen to the stories free of charge from May 10 to 20, 2017.

First synthetic retina for visually impaired created – The Guardian NewsPaper

Tue, 05/09/2017 - 10:49 -- geeta.nair

A synthetic, soft tissue retina developed by an Oxford University student could offer fresh hope to visually impaired people.Until now, all artificial retinal research has used only rigid, hard materials. The new research, by Vanessa Restrepo-Schild, a 24 year old Dphil student and researcher at the Oxford University, Department of Chemistry, is the first to successfully use biological, synthetic tissues, developed in a laboratory environment.

NITI Aayog document inaccessible to blind

Tue, 05/09/2017 - 10:32 -- geeta.nair

Activists term situation ‘unfortunate’

The three-year action agenda document recently released by NITI Aayog is inaccessible to the visually impaired and those who use assistive technology for reading, say activists.

The plan proposes several policy changes for short-term implementation in India, and covers sectors such as agriculture, industry and manufacturing.

Beyond reach

The document available on the organisation’s website, however, is inaccessible to many.

Separate ministry for persons with disabilities demanded

Fri, 05/05/2017 - 10:38 -- geeta.nair

Speakers at a dialogue in the city on Thursday demanded forming a separate ministry for persons with disabilities as it can take up special steps to ensure their rights and integrate them with the mainstream of development.

 

"We demand a separate ministry for persons with disabilities for their overall welfare," Access Bangladesh Foundation Chairperson CM Tufail Sami told the dialogue while presiding over it at CIRDAP auditorium.

 

State Minister for Finance and Planning MA Mannan joined the dialogue as the chief guest.

 

Sightless but full of vision

Fri, 05/05/2017 - 10:18 -- geeta.nair

Unique IFS recruit impresses the French
 

Paris, April 30: A blind Indian girl from Chennai in her twenties is opening the eyes of the French.

Beno Zephine, the only blind person ever to be recruited to the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), is taking the well-ordered, impeccable foreign policy environment in the French capital, where diplomacy was born, by storm.

University of Mysore plans to set up centre for visually impaired

Wed, 05/03/2017 - 10:26 -- geeta.nair

Question bank of competitive examinations in Braille will be one of the key features

The University of Mysore has proposed to set up a national institution, a nodal centre in the country, exclusively for the visually imapired to enhance their skills and increase their employability in the market-driven corporate world.

The university said it is committed to provide inclusive education and training to students with special needs.

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