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Special Schools and Inclusive Education
Civic Convention on Special Schools Date 15 September 2018, 3 – 6 PM Place Federation Hall, 294/2/1 APC Road, Kolkata – 700009 Special School and Inclusive Education Special schools providing education to blind children are now at stake as they are, it appears, of secondary importance to the government. We […]
Unite for Braille and Special School
প্রতিবন্ধী শিশুদের শিক্ষা ধ্বংস-চক্রান্তের প্রতিবাদে আহূত কনভেনশন সফল করুন ব্লাইন্ড পারসন্স্ অ্যাসোসিয়েশনের আহ্বানে শিক্ষা সম্মেলন সময় ৫ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৮, অপরাহ্ণ ৩-৬টা স্থান ফেডারেশন হল্, ২৯৪/২/১ এ.পি.সি. রোড, কোল—৯ জানেন কি, প্রতিবন্ধী শিশু অর্থাৎ দৃষ্টিহীন, মূক-বধির এবং মানসিক প্রতিবন্ধী শিশুদের শিক্ষা আজ ধ্বংসের মুখে দাঁড়িয়ে? চরম পরিতাপের বিষয়, এই উদ্বেগজনক পরিস্থিতির […]
BPA beside the Victims of Flood in Kerala
Flood in Kerala has stunned all Indians. It has taken a toll of nearly four hundred lives according to the government. It has renderred thousands of people homeless. The actual damages have been caused by havoc landslides. We do not yet know how long Kerala will take to recover from […]
Documentary on Blind Persons’ Association
A documentary on Blind Persons’ Association was released today on the occasion of Helen Keller’s 138th birth anniversary at the auditorium of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers at Jadabpur, Kolkata. This documentary focuses on the activities of the organisation over decades for the welfare of the blind people in West […]
Blind Students to Be Relieved from Lead Exposure from Arithmetic Tyeps
hazardous effects of lead exposure are known for quite some time. Lead is no longer used in paints on doors and windows, jewellery, toys and so on. But strangely enough, lead was extensively used in producing arithmetic types or pegs used by Blind students for decades in India. It could […]
ONGC Extends Support to Production of Braille Books
Blind Persons’ Association has received a high quality Braille printer from Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Kolkata for its Braille printing facility. This printer was formally handed over today by Shri Hemant Kumar Sethi, the General Manager of ONGC at a function at the premises of the Braille press at […]
Mr. Rungta Explains How to Apply for Recently-Announced Railway Jobs
Mr. Rungta has explained the process of application for railway jobs for blind candidates on Radio Udaan. Listen to it on Radio Udaan’s YouTube channel and you will learn many details including distribution of 676 vacancies under different railway Recruitment Boards. We expressed our concern over insufficient number of vacancies […]
Little Hope for the Visually Handicapped in the Biggest Railway Recruitment Drive
It is a big news item in all dailies in all languages all over India that about ninety thousand people will be employed under the Ministry of Railway. As usual, the visually handicapped expected new openings for them. After all, this is an unprecedented recruitment drive by the Government of […]
Budget Speech 2018 and the Disabled Persons
We have tried to focus on some of the features of budget speech of the Hon’be Finance minister Shri Arun Jaitley in the Lok-Sabha today for the year 2018-19 as far as it concerns the disabled community. We often receive telephone calls from members asking if the limit of Rs. […]
Confusion with Coins and Notes
We, the blind people, are often asked how we identify currency notes and coins. Perhaps all of us have faced this question from our colleagues, vendors and fellow-passengers. This is a universal curiosity. Everybody wants to keep count of his own money. And this is a problem we, the blind […]
