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 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.
The India- based member- companies are TCS, Wipro, Infosys, MphasiS and Thomson Reuters. What’s more? of the 13 employers’ organisations to join the network, two are from India,they are Nasscom and the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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.
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.
Various judgements illustrate how others have utilised the law to get help. The guidance section offers advice on what you can do.
The directories in this section cover organisations and individuals who are working in the field of disability law. You could get in touch with them for legal advice or to help you with preparing your case for the courts.
Josh Waite from London has designed a hub-less chair for the physically disabled with an aim to give the sad wheelchair an eye-appealing existence. Dubbed as SessiO, the amazing product will be controlled and balanced with the help of segway technology, which uses five different gyroscopic sensors to keep the machine balanced.