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.
Within minutes of the tele-conversation, her customers are convinced into buying a mobile or a landline connection. Her enticing voice has listeners hooked on. So much so, that “some continue to talk, to just listen to my voice, wasting my time and theirs! I cut the calls when they do this,” says Alisha (not her real name).
Punarjot Eye Bank of Punjab held an awareness fortnight meet on eye donation. Punjab Health Minister R.C. Dogra, was the chief guest at the event. He acknowledged that due to the involvement of NGOs, eye donation and transplantation has got a tremendous boost in the state.
Dr Ramesh, the Director of Punarjot Eye Bank, stated that the eye bank had the support of allies in the ‘war against blindness’ and due to which their eye bank is able to reach out to poor and needy patients in the rural areas of the state, where there are few eye specialists.
In Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, two blind brothers, Dharam Chand Jain and Rajendra Jain run their grocery shops while their blind sister; Nirmala is working in a government school as a teacher.
Dharam Chand Jain has been running a grocery shop for the last 40 years and has in fact added an auto parts counter to his shop, recently. Rajendra Jain also runs a grocery shop and supports his family.
Both of them do all the buying and selling themselves and also even money transactions and their business runs smoothly.
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