VELLORE: The Tamil Nadu Braille Chess Association (Association) has urged the State government to allot visually challenged persons who excel in sport, including Chess, government jobs on the sports quota.
KOCHI: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday upheld a Single Bench order directing the Kannur University to consider Prasanna Kumary, a visually impaired woman, for appointment as Lecturer in Law.
AHMEDABAD: Such was the apathy of the state government towards the visually impaired that, when the high court ruled in favour of 11 blind candidates, asking the education department to provide jobs to them in November 2012, in February 2013, the government brought out a notification restricting the appointment. The division bench of justice Jayant Patel and justice Z K Saiyed on June 12, 2013 had taken a serious note of this notification.
State has blind spot for visually impaired
DHARWAD: The physically-challenged in Dharwad have a reason to cheer. The Union government is planning to set up a Deen Dayal Upadhyay Rehabilitation Center (DDRUC), a national sports complex and hostels for them in the district, said Thaawar Chand Ghelot, Union minister for social justice and empowerment.
Yograj Singh, a visually impaired (75% loss of vision) school headmaster of Government High School, Beerampur, in the backward Bet area of Hoshiarpur district, has cleared the UPSC with rank 1213.
A visually impaired officer has been appointed the vice-principal at the Punjab jail training school, Patiala, in an alleged violation of the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA).
NEW DELHI: In a big relief to people with physical disabilities, the central government has announced to allow a relaxation of 10 years in age for the visually-challenged, hearing-impaired and persons suffering from locomotor disability or cerebral palsy in case of direct recruitment to all central government posts but not in the civil services.
CHENNAI: Counselling on Monday for differently-abled candidates at Anna University saw 163 students allotted engineering seats in various colleges across the State. For the 5137 seats available under visual, hearing and orthopaedically impaired categories, the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions - 2015 received 225 applications. Five applications were rejected for not fulfilling eligibility criteria and/or failure to produce supporting medical certificates, officials said.
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