Education and Employment

Delhi University online registration to include SC/STs

The Delhi University online registration process is likely to be extended to SC/ ST and persons with disability (PWD) in the 2013-14 academic session. Even though the physical common admission form will be available for pre-admission registration to various undergraduate courses, the focus seems to be on the online registration this year. According to university officials, the application process - both offline and online is expected to be simpler and student-friendly.

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Lack of infrastructure force children with disabilities, especially girls, to drop out from schools

Lesser number of girls with disabilities are enrolled in schools than boys and their enrolment has remained consistently around 40 per cent, a latest study has shown. The enrolment of girl students with disabilities was 43.57 per cent in 2009-10, 43.07 per cent in 2010-11, 41.51 per cent in 2011-12, and 40.21 per cent in 2012-13.

Kids with disabilities shouldn't be asked certificates for admission, exam: NCERT

New Delhi: No child with disability should be asked to produce certificates either for admission, examination, getting support for facilities or scholarships as far as possible, NCERT has suggested.

It has also said that there should be exemption from the fee component in schools for children with disabilities whether studying in government or government-aided schools.

Modern gadgets to improve teaching by visually challenged

MADURAI: To keep abreast of latest technologies that enhance teaching, the visually challenged teachers under the banner of Blind Teachers Association (BTA), Madurai Branch, arranged a special technical session for their members. More than 300 visually challenged teachers are members of the branch that has jurisdiction from Karur to Kanyakumari districts and 90 of them from Madurai and nearby districts participated in the workshop held on Saturday.

BPO company amazed at transcription skills of blind men

Aditya is excited. He has finished his six-month training course in medical transcription in just four months and will be joining his new job soon. There are many more like him waiting to finish the training course and join the job.

What began as a goodwill gesture has left the IT-enabled services BPO company Transtek, stunned at the skills of the young men of Ramkrishna Mission Blind Boys' Academy, Narendrapur. A few months ago, Transtek, which does medical transcription work for doctors in the US, approached the Narendrapur academy to train some of its students.

Text books for visually impaired students in Serbia

Representatives of the, Association of Blind and Visually Impaired People, of Serbia – Beli Stap (White Cane), together with several other disability associations, discussed the problems faced by disabled students at universities.

The Nasa Knjiga (Our Book) action, implemented by White Cane Association, aims to provide each student with textbooks in a form most suited to their needs. Vesna Nestorovic, President of the Association, said blind and vision-impaired students should have access to electronic books, since that is the form best suited to their studies.

Supreme Court verdict orders blind girl’s recruitment, but hiring board defunct

Visually impaired in Tamil Nadu seek implementation of schemes

All India Awareness Welfare Association of the Blind has pleaded to the government of Tamil Nadu to implement the schemes and concessions for the blind and handicapped persons announced by the Chief Minister, under Section 110 in the Assembly.

Indian Educational Satellite to transmit live audio for blind students

Now, visually impaired people in India can have access to the latest information and can refer to it any time. A unique network configuration developed by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) will help transmit live audio for blind students and even enable the transfer and printing of audio data files with the help of a Braille printer.

Blind man climbs coconut trees, dives into ponds as part of profession

"I could climb trees from childhood. So, I thought why not take it up as a profession?” says, Sanatan Das. Climbing coconut, palm and banyan trees as high as 70-80 feet to fell them down or cleaning the bed of ponds by diving ten feet underwater, is his means of livelihood.

Sanatan Das identifies a tree through touch and makes out its circumference by looping his arms around the trunk. He begins his work by setting up a makeshift scaffold, a little above the ground level. He sets up several scaffolds and he goes up by putting his arms around the tree trunk.