The government has announced changes in the issuance of disability certificates. An official release said for hearing and visually impaired persons it would be issued on Mondays; for those Locomotor handicapped/cerebral palsy/leprosy cured it would be on Tuesdays and for mental retardation, multiple disability, autism and mentally ill persons it would be on Friday.
44-year-old Malini Chib was born with cerebral palsy. But she not only overcame the challenges that she faced but also took up the cause for the differently-abled by speaking out for their rights and the problems they face. A cause that finds reflection in her book, One Little Finger, that outlines the journey of her life and the odds she faced.
Accessibility conference and exhibition “Techshare India 2012 – Bridging the Barriers” invites submissions of papers for this conference to be held on February 6th & 7th, 2012 at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, India. The list is suggestive of the types of papers for consideration, but by no means restrictive to these specific areas.
Chandigarh, the best-planned city in India, an epitome of modernization combined with nature’s preservation, the dream city of India’s first Prime Minister, Sh. Jawahar Lal Nehru. This rich prosperous green city called the ‘CITY BEAUTIFUL’, awaits to welcome you ALL during its Best Season! The Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Chandigarh Chapter & the Regional Institute for the Mentally Handicap, Chandigarh is hosting the VIIIth Annual Conference of the Childhood Disability Group of IAP on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th September, 2011.
Applications in the prescribed format along with attested copy of necessary documents should reach to the Sr. General Manager (HRM), NBCC Limited, NBCC Bhawan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 latest by 23.08.2011.
Naga Naresh Karutura has just passed out of IIT Madras in Computer Science and has joined Google in Bangalore. You may ask, what’s so special about this 21-year-old when there are hundreds of students passing out from various IITs and joining big companies like Google?
R. Priya, a visually challenged girl of V.V.V. College for Women in Virudhunagar, had an unusual project in mind for her M.Phil dissertation – ‘Rehabilitation programme for women at the Vellore special prison.’
Articulate speech coupled with a pinch of philosophy and unending optimism defines Mohammed Wasim, a visually challenged English tutor, at the Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled. Born with his vision intact, Mr. Wasim developed microphthalmos, a hereditary eye disease, that eventually led to his being visually impaired at the age of seven.
Sagar Morankar, a 22-year-old visually challenged student has been granted Pratham P K Sirdeshmukh Maharaj Scholarship for his dedication in dhrupad (classical) singing. Hailing from Chalisgaon, Jalgaon district, Sagar came to Pune when he was in 1st standard in 1993 and took admission in Pune Home for Blind, Koregaon Park.
Manjunath V., Srinivas Murthy and Ashok. They are all in their early 20s, undergraduate and visually challenged. They are the three visually challenged people to anchor news bulletins in the history of Indian television. They anchored Kannada news on Doordarshan Kendra’s regional Channel Chandana in Bangalore Jan 4, the second birth centenary of Louis Braille, founder of the Braille script.