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Hapless students, the visually-impaired block roads to be heard

LAHORE: Traffic was blocked for hours by two groups of protesters on Monday along a segment of the Canal Road and the Metro Bus route along Ferozepur Road. The chief traffic police officer appointed two DSPs, four special squads, 14 patrolling officers and 116 traffic wardens to maintain smooth flow of traffic at the site of the protests and wardens set up diversions on roads and chowks leading to protest sites. Scores of visually-impaired people from various districts of the Punjab had gathered at Kalma Chowk on Monday morning and staged a protest on the Metro Bus track.

Center for blind, visually impaired touts new Uptown home

Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh is preparing to consolidate its operations under one Uptown roof — and place a community garden, trees and dog park on the rooftop.

“We really believe the new building is going to increase the number of people who go through the (organization's Personal Adjustment to Blindness) program,” said President Erika Arbogast.

Visually Impaired Students in Maharashtra Can Now Record Their Board Exam Answers

This step has been taken by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) and Minister of School Education, Vinod Tawde, with the view of bringing about changes for students with special needs in the state.

ASI U'khand website now accessible to visually impaired

The Uttarakhand division of Archaeological Survey of India is adding a new section on its website, complete with voice commands and recorded narration, to allow visually impaired users to access information on heritage sites of the hill state. The move by the Uttarakhand division of ASI, also known as Dehradun Circle, is a first across the archaeological circles in the country.

Maharashtra govt has no figures on the ‘disabled’ it employs

The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, which comes under the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, does not have any information on the employment among the disabled persons in the country, according to a reply to a query filed by The Indian Express under the Right to Information (RTI) Act in September last year.

“Information related to the percentage of employment of disabled persons is not available,” the RTI reply says.

Here’s a sports complex with a vision

Chief Minister to inaugurate the first-of-its-kind facility for the blind at Keezhmadu near Aluva on January 16.

Mention the words ‘practice session’ and it conjures up image of players in coloured clothes, photo-op for fans or the air of pre-match excitement. And if you were at the cricket stadium near Aluva, which currently hosts the practice sessions of a national team, your applause would resound a lot louder when the players stepped on to the ground.

Her world isn’t dark

Do the blind live in a world of darkness? Or is theirs an imaginary world with visuals? Some, especially those who’ve been born blind, have stated that their world is indeed dark and visuals are at times thrust on them. Others, like Shakila Maharaj, one of the delegates at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2016, talk about an imaginary world that’s far from dark.

Deifying people with disabilities a cruel joke

In India, the people with disabilities are addressed by many denominations interchangeably. Since the mid-1980s, patronising terms such as “differently abled” and “specially abled” have been quite common in public parlance. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his last Mann ki Baat, broadcast on December 27, 2015, appealed to the public to adopt the use of the term “divyang” (divine body) to address persons with disabilities.

THE FUSION TEAM from Silver Linings! 3rd January 2016!

FUSION a face to face social networking platform for people with and without disabilities! 3rd January 2016, witnessed the 16th meet of Fusion! As you may be aware, Fusion was launched on 10th November 2013 at the India International Center New Delhi! We are ever so grateful to the IIC Delhi for supporting the Fusion event by providing the space for the same! Fusion has succeeded to directly touch lives of over 300 people this far!

Snehankit Helpline- Workshop on Financial Education with the support from SEBI

Snehankit Helpline is organizing a workshop on financial education with the support from SEBI. SEBI has taken initiative in training visually challenged persons in planning their investments. the workshop will cover following topics-Importance of learning about money, what is financial planning, smart goals, understanding network, protecting wealth, concepts of budgeting and saving investments some dos and don'ts.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS RAILWAY RECRUITMENT Cell

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS RAILWAY RECRUITMENT CELLS Centralised Employment Notice No. 01/2015 Special Recruitment Drive for Persons with Disabilities for erstwhile Group ‘D’ posts Website : www.rrcnr.org

Date of publication: 01-01-2016
Date and Time of Closing: At 17:00 hours on 31-01-2016
Date of Online Examination- Between 15th -28th February 2016 ( Approximately)

GAIL (India) Limited

Gail ( India) Limited
( A Govt of India Undertaking)
Gail Bhawan, 16, Bhikaji Cama Place,
New Delhi -110066

SPECIAL RECRUITMENT DRIVE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITY (PwD)

Senior Officer( Marketing)
E-2 Grade
Pay Scale: Rs 24,900- 50,500
Age Limit: (Yrs)
General: (PwD- Visually Impaired)- 40
SC/ST (PwD- Visually Impaired)- 45
OBC( NCL) (PwD- Visually Impaired)- 43

Maharaja Agrasen College University of Delhi

Maharaja Agrasen College
University of Delhi
(Govt of NCT of Delhi)
Vasundhara Enclave, Delhi- 110096

Recruitment for Teaching Posts

Online Applications are invited from highly motivated candidates for appointment to the post of Assistant Professor in various departments in the Pay Band -III of Rupees 15600- 39100 plus AGP Rs.6000/

Post: Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Number of Posts: 7 out of which 1 for Visually Impaired
Pay Band- III of rupees 15600-39100 plus AGP- Rs 6000/

1.16 LAKH EYE PATIENTS TESTED IN SEWA SADAN

As many as 1.16 lakh eye patients were examined and 12,534 patients’ eyes were operated upon in Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital during calendar year 2015.

These include 4,463 paid cataract surgeries, 74 glaucoma, 22 squint, 272 surgeries of diabetic retinopathy disease and 7,607 free cataract surgeries.

Notably, the Medical Director and Senior Ophthalmologist Dr Prerna Upadhyaya has transplanted cornea to 96 visually impaired patients in this period. This achievement is highest than any other eye hospital based in central India region of the State.

Visually Impaired iOS Users Can Now View The World Through ‘Aipoly Vision’

There is now a free iOS app that enables the blind, visually impaired, and color blind, understand their surroundings through object and color recognition. Optimised for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, the app allows users to toggle between its two main functions: object recognition, and color recognition. AppAdvice reports, however, that the app’s object recognition is a little hit and miss, although color recognition seems to work flawlessly. Aipoly Vision’s developer says,

The bionic eye changing a woman's life

At Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, a clinical trial is taking place in which six patients who have had little or no sight for many years are having a cutting-edge "bionic eye" implanted in an attempt to give them some sight, and independence, back. The first patient in this trial is 49-year-old Rhian Lewis, from Cardiff. She explains: "I was a toddler when my parents noticed I would not cross a darkened room, even from one light room to another light room, and that I was really scared of the dark.

Louis Braille’s birth anniversary: In a first, visually-impaired man reads news on AIR Pune

IT WAS a routine broadcast schedule for the listeners of All India Radio (AIR) on Monday morning, when presenter Manoj Kshirsagar started the regional news bulletin at 7.10 am in his distinctive voice. However, halfway into the bulletin, Kshirsagar said that he would now pass on the microphone to Dhanraj Patil, a representative of Pune Blind Men’s Association, who will complete the bulletin by reading the news in braille.

World Braille Day: 9 facts about the Braille Code and the man behind it

Louis Braille, the developer of Braille Code, was born on January 4 in 1809. The day is celebrated as World Braille Day.

Technology beyond Braille has come in handy for many

While hailing the revolutionary discovery of Louis Braille as being a fundamental necessity that helped them overcome barriers, some of the visually challenged professionals in the city feel that technology interventions have also helped them think beyond Braille in several walks of life.

Bengaluru’s first industrial Braille press in HSR Layout

The city is all set to get its own industrial-scale Braille press in HSR Layout, which is also set to print the first Braille magazine in the State.

Mitra Jyothi, an NGO working for the visually challenged from the past 25 years, has been granted Rs. 1-crore Braille press by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment as part of a programme to establish 16 Braille press across the country in 2015.

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