New Delhi, Jan 24 (UNI) Winner of the Blind Cricket World Cup team India on Wednesday met President Ramnath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Kovind, congratulated the winners of the World Cup and also clicked pictures with them.
Earlier, on Tuesday, the Blind Cricket team had met Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Source: http://www.uniindia.com/blind-cricket-team-champs-meet-prez/sports/news/1116551.html
New Delhi, January 24
One is a singer, one works at a farm, another sells milk—meet India’s Blind World Cup winning team members who are struggling to make ends meet in the cricket mad nation where many will become overnight millionaires in the IPL auction this weekend.
Cricket is religion in India and cricketers enjoy larger than life status but on the contrary, the champion blind cricketers continue to suffer due to unemployment and lack of recognition.
TIRUCHY: Call it apathy or lack of awareness of rules, officials failed to provide basic facilities such as ramps and railings at the Anna Stadium where the annual sports meet for the differently-abled took place on Tuesday. With no arrangements in place, it was difficult for participants to reach the sporting arena. What was ironic was that the highest administrative officer in the district, Collector, inaugurated the event, but was unaware of the lack of facilities.
Zarana Maheshwary was a two-year-old when she diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP)—a genetic disorder of the eyes which causes loss of vision, over a period of time. Her condition began to deteriorate when she was in Class 5, and she is currently completely blind.
VACANCY FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN A PROMINENT NGO IN DELHI
AGE NO BAR, RETIRED PERSONS MAY ALSO APPLY.
National Association for the Blind Delhi state Branch (NAB) invites applications for the post of Executive Director.
Location: New Delhi
HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE
Dhangadi, January 22
A function named ‘Dinner in the dark’ was organised today in Dhangadi to provide financial assistance to the blind people of Kailali distirct.
Rotary Club of Dhangadi organised the programme to help blind people financially and encourage people to extend helping hands for the welfare of the visually impaired, according to programme coordinator Ganesh Bahadur Singh.
Vinayak Padmadeo
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 21
After a huddle in the middle and chants of ‘JPM, JPM’, the team stuck together for few ‘selfies’ with the coaches and the support staff.
CHENNAI: The Railway Boardhas decided to replace the words 'blind,' 'deaf and dumb' and 'physically challenged' from concession forms with new words to describe the nature of disability. This was indicated in a policy circular dated January 12, which was released recently.
PUNE: Most colleges in the city have not introduced the screen-reading software made compulsory for visually challenged students by the higher education department two years ago.
Vijay Narkhede, joint director of higher education for Pune division comprising Pune, Ahmednagar and Nashik said, "We had issued this circular in December 2015. All institutes have to introduce 'Jaws' or 'Lekha' software, screen reader programmes that convert text to speech or other mediums helping visually impaired candidates to attempt examinations."
It was a car rally like no other, as visually impaired participants turned navigators and guided drivers with normal vision through rough terrain spanning 47 kilometres. The idea was to send out a message that disability is no bar to taking up any pursuit and breaking new grounds.
While the rally sought to raise general awareness on the importance of adhering to traffic rules, it also presented visually impaired people with an opportunity to overcome their disabilities and showcase their road navigating skills.
Can blind people write programming codes?
The answer would be a firm yes as you watch them clustered around tables, putting their heads down and discussing what kind of apps to create in a 24-hour period at the hackathon held at the International Institute for Information Technology-Bangalore on Saturday.
The sighted people are not present to help them, but to partner with them in the effort.
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Railways has made formal changes in concession certificate issued to people with disabilities clearly listing out how they be addressed.
The move comes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion in 2015 that persons with disabilities be addressed as ‘divyangs’ (divine bodies) instead of ‘viklang’. Interestingly, it took the Railways almost two years to formally make the changes in travel concession forms issued to people with disabilities.
SAN FRANCISCO: A blind Facebook employee is developing a technology that will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to verbalise the content of an image or video and enable the visually impaired to "see" and determine appropriate content for people and advertisers.
Facebook engineer Matt King is leading a project that is making solutions for visually impaired people on the platform that could eventually be used to identify images and videos that violate Facebook's terms of use or that advertisers want to avoid.
6 year old Akhilesh (name changed) was born with normal vision into a low-income family in Cochin, Kerala. A tumor was detected in his eyes, when Akhilesh was only 7-months old. He underwent an operation for the same but unfortunately it resulted in complete loss of vision. His parents couldn’t come to accept their son’s vision loss and hopelessly persisted in seeking medical help to restore his sight. Social stigma and lack of awareness pushed them towards a state of denial and unacceptance.
26 year old Ajay Sharma (name changed) was born as a sighted child to a farmer family in Solapur, Maharashtra. He has two elder brothers, one works as a telephone operator and the other repairs sewing machines. At the age of 4, Ajay was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa which led to a rapid vision loss, leaving him completely blind in a span of 6 months. His family turned hopeless from the time of Ajay’s diagnosis and showed no form of support in coping with his disability.
25 year old Gopal Kulkarni (name changed) was born blind in Rui Talav village in Maharashtra. He is the third of the four children born to his parents, remaining three sighted. Gopal’s parents were deeply disappointed at the birth of a blind child and so they wanted to have a fourth child to make up for their loss. Given their lack of education and weak economic status, Gopal’s parents were unaware of the potential of a blind person and had no will or resources to invest in him.
42 year old Nilish works for the State Bank of India (SBI) in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. He was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa at the age of 20 after which he underwent treatment for 3 years but to no avail. He gradually lost his vision completely. But despite his vision impairment, Nilish pursued his education in mainstream institutions and he earned a Masters in Political Science.
COLLEGE OF VOCATIONAL STUDIES
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Advt.No. CVS/NT/2018/01
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COLLEGE OF VOCATIONAL STUDIES
(UNIVERSITY OF DELHI)
Triveni, Sheikh Sarai,
New Delhi – 110017
Ph- 011-29258544, Fax – 011-29256117
Advt.No. CVS/NT/2018/01
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://www.cvs.edu.in
The date of submission of online form is 10.02.2018
Online applications are invited for the following permanent Non-Teaching posts of the college.
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