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LVPEI, Microsoft launch mobility, sensory stimulation park in Vijayawada

‘Experience to improve mental abilities of visually-challenged’

The L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) and Microsoft India Development Centre (MSIDC) on Friday jointly launched a new initiative to support the visually challenged here in Vijayawada on Friday. The initiative is a Mobility and Sensory Stimulation Park at LVPEI’s Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus in Tadigadapa. A helpline centre at Hyderabad was remotely launched from Vijayawada on Friday.

A question of vision, not sight

A new television series is trying to change society’s attitude towards the visually impaired.

"My family members don’t realise what I am doing on my own without their help. They only see what I don’t or cannot. This upsets me no end.” I remember these words by a senior research scholar I knew. He was visually impaired.

Officer Scale-I and Office Assistant (Multipurpose)

Marudhara Gramin Bank

(Sponsored by Govt. of India, Govt. of Rajasthan & State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur)

Head Office: 900/751, Milk man Colony, Pal Road,

Jodhpur (Rajasthan)-342008

Ph. No. 02932-251204,221047, 0291-2785652 Fax No. 02932-223271

Website: www.mgbbank.com

E-mail Address: mgb_hrd@yahoo.co.in

mgb_jodhpur@yahoo.in

Peon and Helper

Ministry of Railways

Southern Railway

Railway Recruitment Cell (RRC)

Website: www. rrcchennai.org.in

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.rrcchennai.org.in or refer to the Emloyment News dated 21 September 2013, page no. 3

The last date of application is 21.10.2013

Last date for receipt of application from candidates residing in far flung areas: 05.11.2013

RRC Chennai introduces online application facility.

Peon

State Bank of Travancore (SBT)

(Associate of the State Bank of India)

HEAD OFFICE :: THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit ww.statebankoftravancore.com

Assistant and Cook

Central University of Bihar (CUB)

Patna Campus : BIT Campus, PO: B.V. College, Patna – 800 014 (Bihar)

Gaya Campus : House No. 16/13, Ward No-9A, New 38 Area, Bisar, Gaya-823001 (Bihar)

Advt. No: CUB/Advt./21/2013 dated 16/09/2013

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.cub.ac.in.

The last date of application is 21.10.2013

Project Coordinator

Score Foundation

Post: Project Coordinator

Multiple vacancies

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)

Advt.No. 13/2013

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit http://www.upsconline.nic.in or refer to the Emloyment News dated 14 September 2013, page no. 23

‘90% of visually impaired live in developing countries’

The Eastern Mediterranean region is home to the second largest number of people in the world with visual impairment, according to estimates.

There are a total of 285mn visually impaired people in the world - 246mn with low vision and 39mn are estimated to be blind.

About 90% of the world’s visually impaired live in developing countries while 80% of all visual impairment can be avoided or cured.

Also, 1.26mn children are blind and 19mn are visually impaired.

Visually impaired student impresses experts at Oxford

While doing her PhD at UoP, she represents city and is one of the three participants from India at the global conference.

Early this month, Kalyanlakshmi Chitta (29), a visually impaired research associate and PhD student at the economics department of the University of Pune, did the city proud. She representing Pune at the third global conference on ‘The Value of Work’ organised at Mansfield College of the University of Oxford.

Kalyanlakshmi’s research paper was one of the three selected from India for the conference, held between September 1 and 3.

Visually impaired teachers support protest in Chennai

Members of the Vellore and Tiruvannamalai districts Blind Teachers Association and Tamil Nadu Self-Confident Blind Services Society (TNSCBSS) staged a demonstration in front of the collectorate here on Monday. They expressed solidarity with the members of the Blind Students and Graduate Association, who were fasting in Chennai since September 16, over a host of demands.

Multiple vacancies

East Central Railway (ECR)

Railway Recruitment Cell

Polson Complex, Digha Ghat, Patna - 800011

Website : www.rrcecr.gov.in

Helpline Tele No. 0612-2560029, 2560035

Employment Notice No: RRC/ECR/GP 1800/1/2013

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.rrcecr.gov.in or refer to the Emloyment News dated 14 September 2013, page no. 20

The last date of application is 14.10.2013

Assistant Manager (HRM)

National Buildings Construction Corporation Limited (NBCCL)

Corporate Office: HRM Division,

NBCC Bhawan, Lodhi Road,

New Delhi-110003

Advt. No. 9/ 2013

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.nbccindia.gov.in or refer to the Emloyment News dated 14 September 2013, page no. 12

The last date of application is 30.09.2013

Sightless but not without vision, they inspire with their cameras

A photography exhibition questioning the conventional wisdom of 'vision' is currently on at the India International Centre featuring works by three international lensmen, all of whom, once sighted, are now completely blind.

The display, titled 'Vision Unseen', showcases seemingly impossible photographs shot by Frenchman Evgen Bavcar, US national Flo Fox and Kuniaki Ito from Japan.

NGO to air inspiring stories of the visually impaired on TV

An inspiration to many, the visually impaired have set extraordinary examples of courage and optimism.

Now an NGO is taking it a step further by airing a 13-episode TV series with Naseeruddin Shah to change societal mindsets towards the visually impaired.

Tech firms adopt differently-abled-friendly softwares

Assistive technologies like talking cash counting machines and Braille business card readers are being increasingly adopted.The differently abled might be making up merely 1% of the total IT and technology workforce. But to appear diverse and distinct, firms in the city are leaving no stone unturned for transforming themselves into “disable friendly” companies.

Talks with minister not fruitful

It’s about a week now. A group of visually-challenged graduates in the city has been on indefinite fast demanding employment in government sectors for qualified persons in their community.

When social welfare minister B. Valarmathi, who called on them on Sunday, said she would need some more time to decide on their placements, the protestors did not budge and continued their fast.