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Steps needed to ensure safety for the visually impaired at train stations

The Yomiuri ShimbunA visually impaired man died after he fell onto the tracks and was run over by a train at a subway station in Tokyo. It was a heartrending accident. Steps should be taken to prevent a recurrence.

The accident happened at Aoyama-Itchome Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line. The station’s platform is barely three meters wide and has many large round pillars. The man, who was walking with a guide dog, is said to have lost his footing as he approached the edge of the platform just before a pillar.

Volunteers of all ages 'read out' study books for visually challenged

BENGALURU: “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight, but no vision,” says Helen Keller. In a world that often lacks vision, a group of volunteers has stepped up to make life easier for the visually impaired. Dhvani Granth is an initiative to record books for the visually impaired students.

Blind Miss India contest:14 selected in first round

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Multi Tasking Staff (MTS)

HQ Western Air Command, IAF

How do the blind watch the Olympics? NBC helps them hear it

NEW YORK (AP) — Two people in a recording booth deep inside a Connecticut office park are helping millions of blind Americans feel part of the Olympics like never before.

Junior Manager

Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSEL)

(A Govt. of India Undertaking)43/46 Garden Reach Road,

Kolkata – 700024

(EMPLOYMENT NOTIFICATION NO. OS:04/16)

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.grse.nic.in or refer to the Employment News dated 13 August 2016, page no. 13

'My brother gave up studies to help me, now I want to cure his blindness': Shang Chunsong

Clerk

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection

COMMON RECRUITMENT PROCESS FOR

RECRUITMENT OF CLERKS

IN PARTICIPATING ORGANISATIONS (CWE CLERKS-VI)

Website: www.ibps.in

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

Touch and smell park for visually impaired

The district administration is all set to construct a ‘Touch and Smell Park’ for the visually impaired persons and children to know by touching the monuments and other structures.

Probationary Officer in Junior Management Grade / Scale-I

Bank of Baroda

Baroda Corporate Centre,

Plot No. C-26, Block G,

Bandra Kurla Complex,

Bandra (East), Mumbai - 400051

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.bankofbaroda.com

Visually impaired kids' march past wins hearts

Visually impaired children celebrate Independence Day

The Ranga Rao Memorial School for Disabled by NR Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the NR Group, celebrated the 70th Independence Day on the school premises on Monday.

1st Touch and feel Garden for Visually impaired started in Kerala

The disabled have no option but to migrate to cities

At the age of 14, a congenital degenerative eye condition saw darkness envelope the world of Mohith B.P. A special school in Chikkamagaluru district, 25-km from his hometown of Handi, offered the opportunity to finish his schooling.

REACH to school children

CHENNAI: Over 80 per cent of visual impairment in Children can be corrected, if treated at the right time. To address this issue, Sankara Nethralaya has partnered with Orbis, an international NGO working for prevention of blindness and has launched REACH (Refractive Error Among Children) programme on Monday.

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Defence Civilians HQ BEG & Centre Roorkee

(an organization under Ministry of Defence)

LDC

Ministry of Defence

Central Ordnance Depot,

Delhi Cantt.in-110010

C/O 56 APO

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://indianarmy.nic.in/ or refer to the Employment News dated 6

August 2016, page no. 2

Last date of receiving the application is 19th August 2016

Clerk

BANK OF MAHARASHTRA

(A GOVERNMENT OF INDIA UNDERTAKING)

HUMAN RESOURCES MGT DEPTT.

Head Office, “Lokmangal”

1501 Shivajinagar,

Pune – 411 005.
Phone : 020-25614321, 25514501-12

E-mail: bomcoper@mahabank.co.in

Website: www.bankofmaharashtra.in

Aryan Joshi, 14: Imagining the board

On the wall of his room, which he shares with elder brother Omkar, Aryan Bhalchandra Joshi pastes sheets of papers with his daily schedule for the week—one for each day. Each hectic day is broken neatly into compartments, for the number of things he must do need to be documented carefully.

Free travel for the differently abled in DTC buses

New Delhi, August 11

The Delhi Transport Corporation has decided to provide free ride to person suffering from any disability in both AC and Non-AC low floor buses plying in the national Capital.

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