The National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO) invites applications for the following posts to be filled from amongst Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes/ OBC and Persons with Disabilities
Is there any religion in the world that can provide an explanation for suffering? No, finds writer, former editor and minister Arun Shourie, cutting through religious scriptures like a sword in his latest book, Does He Know a Mother’s Heart? How Suffering Refutes Religions. Shourie, who begins the book with a chapter about his son Aditya, who has cerebral palsy, talks to Lounge about issues of access for the differently abled, infrastructure and how small things can change the life of a differently abled person.
A young entrepreneur who prefers action to words, Pavithra Y.S. (27) is the managing director of Vindhya E-Infomedia Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore — a business process outsourcing company offering IT and IT-enabled services — which gives employment preference to differently-abled people (orthopaedically challen-ged, hearing impaired and dyslexics). A commerce graduate of the garden city’s KLE College, since promoting Vindhya E-Infomedia in 2006 with a workforce of five differently-abled people, Pavithra has grown the company’s workforce to 200.
The medical model is presented as viewing disability as a problem of the person, directly caused by disease, trauma, or other health condition which therefore requires sustained medical care provided in the form of individual treatment by professionals. In the medical model, management of the disability is aimed at a “cure,” or the individual’s adjustment and behavioral change that would lead to an “almost-cure” or effective cure. In the medical model, medical care is viewed as the main issue, and at the political level, the principal response is that of modifying or reforming healthcare policy.
Disabled or disability sports are played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. Many of these are based on existing sports but modified to meet the needs of persons with a disabilities, they are also referred to as adapted sports. However, not all disabled sports are adapted, several sports that have been specifically created for persons with a disability have no equivalent in able-bodied sports.
Those concerned with the education of differently abled children are worried about the World Bank report which has come down rather heavily on the quality of education in schools in India saying students are not able to even read and do subtraction
The main point of contention of the disability rights lobby is that while the GO has allowed certification of disability by doctors, including those in Primary Health Centres, practically, persons with disabilities are required to turn up at the State Resource and Training Centre to obtain their certificate. Different days have been allotted to different disabilities and depending on the nature of their disability, the applications have to present themselves at the venue.
IBEX TranSeat 700H safely descends and ascends stairs without carrying or heavy lifting. The IBEX reduces physical demands on operators and reduces the risk of muscle strain, hernia and back pain.
The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability. People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities.
If you are planning on traveling with your family then you must keep some safety travel tips in your mind. Some important and safety travel tips that a traveler must keep in mind while traveling to India are: Before incoming to a tourist destination in India, a traveler must be aware of the all local laws and customs prevailing in that region. This will help the traveler to enjoy a confusion free vacation. To enjoy a irritate free vacation in India, it is important to always keep in touch with your contacts back home and in India and regularly informed them about your location and activities.