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Captain Chandan Lal Special School in Gurgaon run by AICB is starting education through National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) even for those visually impaired people who are either mainstream schools' dropouts due to their visual impairment or due to their visual impairment such students parents did not let them study. The sessions will commence from January 2018. This would be a 2-years program. Only 20 seats are available on first come first grab basis. Please go through the attached document for more details.

Office Attendant

Reserve Bank of India

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.rbi.org.in or refer to the Employment News dated 2nd December October 2017, page no. 46

Closing Date for Online Registration: 07.12.2017

World Disability Day: ‘Don’t feel disabled but at times people make me feel so’

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.

New Act will be boon for persons with disability: Madkaikar

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.

Celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities at IGNOU

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.

City needs to see their problems too

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.

Special schools for children with disability needed: Supreme Court to UP

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.

Assistant Law Officer, Senior Scientific Assistant and Lower Division Clerk

Central Pollution Control Board
(Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change)
‘Parivesh Bhawan' East Arjun Nagar, Shahdara,
Delhi-110032.

Advt. No. 01/2017-Admn.(R)

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.cpcb.nic.in

Last date of receipt of applications :17.12.2017

Applications are invited for the following posts:-

DIRECT RECRUITMENT

Staff Selection Commission (SSC)

Combined Higher Secondary Level (10+2) Examination, 2017

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://ssconline.nic.in

Closing Date:18.12.2017

“GOVERNMENT STRIVES TO HAVE A WORKFORCE WHICH REFLECTS GENDER
BALANCE AND WOMEN CANDIDATES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY”.

Indian Cricket Squad Announced for World Cup for Blind

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.

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Greetings from National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS).

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Venue – NIOS, A24-25, Sector – 62 NOIDA
Date – 12^th December 2017

HOW DAILY LIVING AIDS EMPOWER AND ENABLE PERSONS WITH DISABILITY

Mobility and accessibility aids can help people maintain independence in the activities that are most important to them. We spoke to a few people with different disabilities about the aids that empower them

Preethi Srinivasan, Founder Soulfree, quadriplegic due to a Spinal Cord Injury (pic above)

Buildings in Mohali not easily accessible to visually impaired

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.

Innovations for inclusion

Inventors and creators seek to build a more inclusive world with hardware, software and services. The Hindu reports.

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Administrative Officer, MTS (Library Attendant)

MATA SUNDRI COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (University of Delhi)

1. Administrative Officer – Visually Handicapped (1 vacancy)
Grade Pay – Rs.5400

2. MTS (Library Attendant) – Visually Handicapped (1 vacancy)
Grade Pay – Rs.1800

Candidates can obtain the Application Forms from the college on all working days (Monday to Friday – 10:00 am to 3:00pm)

Last date: 14 days from the publishing of the advertisement in the Employment News or 15/12/2017 whichever is later

Junior Stenographer (NE-04) – 5 Posts (2 PWD, 3 UR)

MOIL LIMITED (A Govt. of India Enterprise) MOIL BHAWAN, 1-A KATOL ROAD, NAGPUR - 440 013

Junior Stenographer (NE-04) – 5 Posts (2 PWD, 3 UR)

a) Graduate
b) Having passed English/Hindi Shorthand at a speed of 80 WPM from Technical Board of Education
c) Having passed English/Hindi Typewriting test at a Speed of 40/30 WPM respectively from Technical Board of Education
d) To qualify in Shorthand and Typewriting tests at the speeds indicated above, to be conducted by a Selection Committee

Virgin Atlantic launches accessible entertainment for customers with sight loss

Virgin Atlantic has announced the launch of its fully accessible inflight entertainment system for customers with sight loss. The technology will be offered throughout its fleet serving destinations across North America, the Caribbean, Africa, China, India and the Middle East. Televisions in the sky have come a long way since the days of a single TV at the front of the cabin with seat back touch screen entertainment now commonplace across the industry.

ROP can be prevented easily, says expert

‘500 kids go blind in India every year due to late detection’

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) can be prevented very easily, but 500 children go blind because of it every year.

November 17 is observed as World Prematurity Day. With advances in neonatal intensive care, the survival rate of premature babies has increased. But unfortunately, the incidence ROP has increased.

Despite all odds, the child survives, but it becomes blind because of poor awareness.

India to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities with awards function in New Delhi

President Ram Nath Kovind will confer the "National Award for Divyangjan, 2017" at a function organized by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment on International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3rd December, 2017 in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, stated an official release.
According to the release, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, Thaawarchand Gehlot; Minister of States for Social Justice and Empowerment, Krishan Pal Gurjar and Ramdas Athawale will also be present the occasion.

Samsung made an app that adjusts its TVs for color blindness

Samsung has launched an app that makes watching TV a more vibrant experience for people with color vision deficiency (CVD) -- the inability to distinguish certain shades of color (also known as color blindness).

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Mobility and accessibility aids can help people maintain independence in the activities that are most important to them. We spoke to a few people with different disabilities about the aids that empower them

Preethi Srinivasan, Founder Soulfree, quadriplegic due to a Spinal Cord Injury (pic above)

Inventors and creators seek to build a more inclusive world with hardware, software and services. The Hindu reports.

‘500 kids go blind in India every year due to late detection’

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