Search For "persons with disabilities"
Empowering persons with disabilities: Social Alpha's Swavlamban Divyangjan
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 13: Recognising the challenges faced by the disabled population and the need for affordable assistive technologies, Social Alpha, with support from SIDBI, initiated the Swavlamban Divyangjan ATMA Fund in February 2021. The fund aimed to develop a financial
Read More
Union Minister inaugurates national workshop on 'Empowering Persons with D
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Union Minister Virendra Kumar inaugurated the National Workshop on "Capacity building of training institutes and HRD in disability field in the context of National Education Policy: 2020" in Jabalpur on Tuesday.
Read More
India's biggest Virtual Career Fair for Women Returns: Careernet's 4th edi
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 12 (ANI/NewsVoir): Careernet, India's leading talent solutions provider, announced the 4th edition of its Career Fair for Women, a virtual career fair under the aegis of Careernet Prism, taking place on 13 May 2023, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Slated to be In
Read More
Delhi HC's notice to Centre on PIL seeks secure access for visually impair
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The plea stated that visually impaired persons face immense difficulties in taking medicines; such persons feel for shape, and size of the tablet and do not even have the benefit of differentiating drugs based on colour. Due to a lack of accessible information, visually impaired persons may
Read More
Special arrangements made to facilitate PWD and old age voters at polling
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
District Administration Jalandhar led by Deputy Commissioner Jaspreet Singh has launched a unique drive to encourage persons with disabilities (PWD) voters and voters aged above 100 years to make their valuable and lively contribution in the forthcoming Jalandhar Lok Sabha Bye-Elections by c
Read More
Samarthanam raises awareness about impact of post-Covid on persons with di
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The first and second waves of COVID19 had adversely affected globally to persons with disabilities. Thousands of persons with disabilities lost their lives due to infection of COVID19, starvation, and hunger, without medication and treatment, rehabilitation services and got secondary complic
Read More
SBI Foundation, Microsoft, and American India Foundation building career p
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 24 (ANI/BusinessWire India): SBI Foundation, Microsoft, and the American India Foundation (AIF) through their joint collaboration under Project SAMEIP hosted the 4th in a series of round tables, on "Accessibility, Technology, and Career Pathways for Pe
Read More
SBI Foundation gives charitable medical institute Dr SRCISH a Rs 1.41 cr f
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 24 (ANI/NewsVoir): 19-year-old Chandrakala from Tumkur District's Pavagada had struggled with hearing loss since birth. Since her family could not afford a hearing aid, Chandrakala's communication issues snowballed over time, adversely impacting her ed
Read More
Cabinet approves signing of MoU between India and South Africa for coopera
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The MoU envisages that Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) at the large and the ageing population in both countries who especially require modern, scientific, durable, cost-effective aids and assistive devices will be benefitted from this MoU.
Read More
AAI acts against airport staffs for extortion, harassment of wheelchair-bo
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The action was taken after the office of the state commissioner for persons with disabilities wrote to AAI asking for an action-taken report by February 13.
Read More
J-K Chief Secy calls for making public buildings, especially schools, hosp
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta on Monday emphasised the need for having public infrastructure amenable to specially-abled people for their easy access to them, especially schools and health institutions of the UT.
Read More
NCPEDP in Collaboration with Bajaj Finserv Launches a Scholarship Scheme f
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 23 (ANI/NewsVoir): National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP), a 26-year-old cross-disability, non-profit organization, working as an interface between the government, industry, international agencies, and the voluntary sector towards
Read More