National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation (NHFDC), Department of Disability Affairs, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and Punjab National Bank (PNB) signed MOU to facilitate concessional credit to Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) on all India basis here. Chairman-cum-Managing Director, NHFDC, Shri Harsh Bhal and Shri S.S Bhatia, General Manager, PNB signed on the MOU.
The Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Mustapha Atila has reiterated that the National Commission for Persons with Disability was not set up by the APC government to offer gifts or handouts; stressing that the commission should only focus on creating the enabling environment for persons with disabilities in Sierra Leone.
Public welfare trust Umang Foundation will organise a film festival on disability, the first such programme in Himachal Pradesh, an organiser said here Sunday.
A total 19 national and international award winning short films will be screened at Portmore Government School Monday, foundation chairman Ajai Srivastava said in a statement.
Doughty-spirited siblings from Malad battle physical challenge and find When Jyoti Goyal’s son Ashish was diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa at age eight, she was concerned about how he would deal with the trauma. At age 15, her younger daughter Nidhi was diagnosed with the same illness. Both her children lost their vision completely by the time they turned 22.
Just 6 months after the installation of it's 1st accessible ATM in July 2013, in March 2013 Union Bank of India installed it's 100th accessible ATM in accord with it's plans. An article published in the Hindu Business Line on July 30th 2013 read, "Union Bank of India (UBI) plans to open nearly 100 “talking ATMs” for visually impaired customers across the country in 2012-13, Mr D. Sarkar, Chairman and Managing Director, said. So far, UBI has four such ATMs – in Mumbai, Lucknow and Gujarat — and their usefulness has prompted the bank to increase the number."
Just before the commencement of the recent legislature session, the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, Prasanna Kumar Pincha, was in Bangalore to review the implementation of the Persons with Disabilities Act in Karnataka.
Tarak Luhar, visually impaired since birth, was the first to withdraw money from the country’s first ‘Talking ATM’ installed by the Union Bank of India on Wednesday at the Blind People’s Association (BPA) premise in Vastrapur. The machine did the talking through the head phones and he would just run his fingers on the Braille keypad on the machine.
Bank chairman and managing director D Sarkar inaugurated the disabled-friendly machine with a view to assist the visually and physically challenged.
Call me Alisha. I can’t reveal my real name,” she says, as she speaks on the mobile with élan. At 24, she is as charming as Indipop singer Alisha Chinai. Her listeners are only too happy to hear a sweet voice enticing them for a mobile or landline connection.In just three minutes, Alisha manages to get a customer. What’s more, she handles 300 such calls a day though not all are ‘fruitful’. This camera shy Alisha’s face lights up when you talk ‘calls’.
Recently children — including hearing and speech impaired, mentally challenged, orthopedically impaired and even a batch of visually impaired — had trooped into the premises of Children’s Film Society of India (CSFI) to see the children’s films.
CFSI, as a part of a project, has been screening children's films in municipal and tribal schools for free. Needless to say the children were happy and enjoyed themselves thoroughly.
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