Come November and the city will see a first-of-its-kind cricket tournament that has never been held anywhere in the world. Speech and hearing impaired girls from across the country will take the field at Gujarat Refinery Stadium to bat for the national champions’ title. A national tournament for speech and hearing impaired girls is being […]
Forty-two-year old Gomti Makwana from Dashkoi village had almost given up on her hopes of finding a suitable partner for marriage. Being visually impaired since birth, not many found Gomti as an ideal bride till Sunday when she finally tied the knot. And, her husband Amrat Makwana doesn’t have any physical disability. Amrat, who works as a labourer, met her two years back and they decided to get married.
BSA Motors, a Strategic Business Unit of Tube Investments of India (TII) which is part of the Rs. 15,907 crores Murugappa Group, launched its
next generation electric scooter ‘Edge’ at the 10th Auto Expo 2010 in New Delhi.
When we look back in time we find that the beginnings of work for the disabled leading to better opportunities, more services and programmes were initiated in many cases either by the disabled themselves or by their families. Perhaps the best example of this is Louis Braille, the inventor of what is now come to […]
WE OFTEN hear about employment exchanges both in the public and private sectors offering jobs to normal people.Since, India is now on a take off stage on the world map on all fronts, therefore, it would be ideal if more and more employment exchanges exclusively for differently abled people, both in the public sector as […]
The oldest institution of social security is the family, including joint family. But modernisation resulted in socio-economic changes leading to the erosion of the joint family, thereby disturbing this institution of social security. Then the State stepped in to protect its citizens, and laws were enacted to provide minimal food and shelter to the poor. […]
New Delhi, Oct 17: Finance minister P. Chidambaram Friday said he would ensure 100,000 physically challenged people are provided employment by the end of the current financial year. “I am here to ensure that we will employ 100,000 people with disability in the remaining six months of this fiscal,” Chidambaram said at a conference on […]
In a most tragic incident at Erwadi, near Ramanathapuram, 25 people including 11 women were charred to death. A devastating fire broke out at 5 am, in the thatched hostel housing them. Out of the 46 hostel inmates, 40 were chained to their beds. They kept screaming for help but no one came to their […]
Concern India Foundation supports various initiatives for providing opportunities to the underprivileged to better their lives. Concern India Foundation works with development-oriented non-profit organisations that reach out to: Despite and/or Orphaned children Tribals The Disabled The Aged For Info Clickhere, http://www.concernindia.org
Persons with disabilities are entitled to exercise their civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights on an equal basis with others. Disability “summarizes a great number of different functional limitations occurring in any population in any country of the world.