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Disability News India – August 2009 Issue
- NGO introduced Sahyogi Scheme to help disabled people
- Students held for ragging deaf student
- Parliament to become disabled friendly soon: Meira Kumar
- Disabled people put demands before welfare officer
- 49 new polio cases in Bihar
New Delhi, Aug 25: A sub–inspector was arrested, along with his son and two others, for beating a physically disabled man to death........
Physically disabled student brutally ragged
Thrissur, Aug 24: A physically disabled student of a polytechnic was allegedly beaten up by his seniors when he resisted their attempt to strip him during ragging.........
Dance troupe with two disabled persons wins "India's Got Talent" TV show
BHUBANESWAR, 24 Aug: The all–conquering members of the Oriya dance troupe 'Prince' –comprising daily wage earners – may now justly expect a reception fit for kings........
ID cards for Jharkhand's disabled people
Jamshedpur, Aug. 19: Jharkhand Viklang Sansthan (JVS), a city–based NGO, has decided to issue identification numbers and ID cards to physically disabled persons in the state, much like the initiative taken by the district........
Transport allowance for physically disabled teachers revised
LUCKNOW, 19 August: The state government has revised the special transport allowance being given to physically disabled teachers and non–teaching staff working in the state ........
Railways disallows disabled people with general tickets in special coaches
CHENNAI, 18 August: The move by the railways to accommodate physically disabled persons with only reserved tickets in the special coach next to guard's cabin in mail........
Include all disabled people in RTE: PM to HRD ministry
New Delhi, Aug 12: Barely a week after the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry managed to pass the landmark Right to Education (RTE) Bill amidst protests........
Pension schemes for disabled people extended
PATNA, August 12: The Bihar cabinet today removed the income criteria for the disabled persons to be covered under the Bihar Special disability Social Security Pension Scheme and decided that persons ........
Parents want mercy killing for four disabled children
LUCKNOW, 11 August: A farmer and his wife in Uttar Pradesh have sought President Pratibha Patil's permission for the mercy killing of all their four sons who ........
School for mentally disabled people to continue in Prayaas Building: Niwas
Chandigarh, Aug 11: UT Home Secretary Ram Niwas ordered for the school of mentally challenged children to be run from its present campus i.e. Prayaas Building........
Government wants car makers to create disability friendly vehicles
NEW DELHI, 8 Aug: Car makers may soon have to manufacture disabled–friendly vehicles as the government has asked them to consider making at least one or two models ........
India reports 163 cases of polio so far this year
8 Aug: India has reported 163 polio cases so far this year and is among the four countries – Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, besides India – where the deadly paralytic ........
Bollywood first for blind actor
A blind Indian is preparing for what is believed to be the first time a person with such a disability will perform a starring role in a Bollywood film.........
Visually Impaired voters can cast their vote in Haryana
Chandigarh , Aug 4: For visually impaired voters, who know how to read Braille script, the coming Assembly elections in Haryana will be a different one, as they will be able to cast their votes........
Hotels to be disabled friendly by Commonwealth Games 2010
New Delhi, Aug 5: In an effort to keep abreast with international norms, hotels in India will adopt changes to become disabled friendly by next year.........
Education for disabled people: Schools may get screen readers
New Delhi, Aug 5: Educating disabled children could soon become a smooth affair as secondary schools are in the process of getting Information Communication Technology........
Rights of disabled children protected in RTE: HRD
NEW DELHI, 4 Aug: The HRD ministry is understood to have convinced UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who made enquiries on Monday about the shortcomings' in the Right to Education (RTE) Bill, that the rights of disabled children........
PM tells Sibal: factor in concerns of disabled people
New Delhi, 4 Aug: Responding to concerns raised by activists that the Right to Education Bill excludes disabled children from its ambit, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is said to have asked Human Resource Development........
Blind candidates waiting for railway posting since one year
Mumbai, 3 Aug: Four blind persons, who landed jobs with the Central Railway nearly a year ago, are still awaiting posting, and more importantly, salary cheques. The situation has arisen because Railway apparently does not know how to use........
People with disabilities left out of education Bill, protest activists
New Delhi Aug 3: The chances of 20 million children with physical and other disabilities to get the right to education has been jeopardised, as the Right to Education Bill........
NGO doing commendable job for visually–impaired kids
2 August: He did not say a word, but the smile and glow on the face of Animesh Ahilya, a visually–impaired standard X student from Kurve's New Model High........
Ignou launches certificate programme in early childhood special education
NEW DELHI, 1 Aug: Ignou in collaboration with Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) launched a certificate programme in early childhood special education ........
Person with schizophrenia moves High Court to get job back
MUMBAI, 31 Jul: A Goregaon person with schizophrenia has moved the Bombay high court in the hope of getting back his job with the Shipping Corporation........
NGO introduced Sahyogi Scheme to help disabled people
Jamshedpur, Aug. 26: Parents Association of Mentally Handicapped of Jamshedpur (PAMHJ) today launched a campaign to popularise the newly introduced Sahyogi scheme in the city.
The campaign aims at roping in caregivers to look after physically and mentally disabled people as well as educating parents of children with disability. The PAMHJ has been selected to train the caregivers in the city.
"We have launched a rath (chariot), which will distribute pamphlets in the city, informing people about the new scheme. The Sahyogi scheme launched by the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment will prove a boon for unemployed and unskilled people, the NGO and parents of children with disability," said P. Babu Rao, the secretary of the PAMHJ.
The caregivers will be given a monthly remuneration and will be specially trained to attend to people with disability, added Rao.
According to him, the service takers will have to pay one–time fee of Rs 1,000 to the PAMHJ for hiring a caregiver. The caregiver will get a salary depending on his or her training and amount of work done at the assigned place.
National Trust under the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment has already provided a fund of over Rs 2 lakh for starting the project. The NGO is set to earn a steady income after the scheme comes into effect.
The training for first batch of 20 caregivers who are already working at the city–based Cheshire Home is slated to begin from September 1. Pamphlets for the campaign contain information on the scheme and how to become a caregiver with the NGO.
Source: http://www.telegraphindia.com
Back to TopStudents held for ragging deaf student
Thiruvananthapuram: Police in Kerala have arrested seven students for
ragging a deaf student who suffered severe injuries.
Nanda Kishore, 23, a first year computer engineering student of the
Thriprayar Sri Rama Government Polytechnic in Thrissur district was
subjected to physical abuse in the college hostel on Thursday night.
The student could not complain to the authorities immediately because of
handicap. He was admitted to hospital a day later when his mother came
to visit him and saw the bruises.
The college authorities suspended 10 senior students, including a leader
of the Students Federation of India (SFI). The SFI, controlled by the
ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist), also expelled the students
from the union.
According to the mother, Kishore was roughed up around 10pm on Thursday,
a day after he joined the institute under a quota for disabled people.
Kishore told his parents the senior students stripped and tortured him.
Kishore, hearing impaired since birth, was admitted to hospital.
The mother alleged the college authorities were trying to hush up the
case as some of the accused belonged to the SFI.
Students belonging to the rival Kerala Students Union (KSU), the
Congress Party's student wing, staged a protest outside the college
demanding the arrest of the principal.
KSU leaders also alleged the principal abused the victim's mother when
she came to lodge her complaint.
District and Sessions Judge B Kemal Pasha has asked the police to
register a case against the principal.
"There will be stringent action against the offenders. The district
administration, judiciary and the police should work in tandem to wipe
out ragging from colleges," he said.
A student of Allahabad University has complained that he was forced to
take off his trousers, smoke and carry his slippers on his head by his
seniors on the campus, an official said yesterday. He said he was also
beaten during the ragging.
"A student of BA first year has accused some senior inmates of Kali
Prasad Hostel of ragging him on the pretext of being introduced to him,
" university's chief proctor Jata Shankar said.
"The student has registered a written compliant with the university
authorities. We have initiated an inquiry. If the senior students are
found guilty, stern action would be taken against them," Shankar said.
According to the victim, he was ragged on Sunday by a group of senior
inmates of the hostel.
The student has alleged his seniors forced him to smoke and perform "
objectionable acts" and the ragging continued for nearly an hour.
Source: http://www.gulf–times.com
Back to TopParliament to become disabled friendly soon: Meira Kumar
26 Aug: India's Parliament will soon become disabled friendly, Lok Sabha Speaker
Meira Kumar said Wednesday.
'I have given instructions to the parliament secretariat to make the
house disabled–friendly and barrier free soon. I have also asked the
parliament to purchase things made by the disabled people for use in the
house,' Kumar said during an interaction with women journalists here.
Activists working for disabled people have been demanding for long to
make the house accessible to disabled people.
India is home to 60 million disabled people. Of them, 48 percent are
visually impaired, 28 percent are movement impaired, 14 percent are
mentally disabled and 10 percent are hearing and speech impaired,
according to 'People with Disabilities in India: From Commitments to
Outcomes,' a report prepared by World Bank in collaboration with the
Indian Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
'Making the historic Sansad Bhavan (Parliament House) accessible to
persons with disabilities will go a long way to help disabled
population get access to public space without any barriers,' K.R.
Rajendra, regional representative of Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD),
told IANS.
'Leave alone the old buildings, even the newly constructed ones do not
have any provisions for disabled people,' said Javed Abidi, convenor of
the Disabled Rights Group. 'The parliament building is a heritage site for all Indians and if it is
turned into a disabled friendly zone, then we can hope that rest of the
buildings and public spaces in India will turn accessible to the
disabled,' Abidi told.
The parliament house is a circular building designed by British
architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker in 1912.
The rights activists said besides making the entire parliament building
a barrier free zone for the disabled, there should be reserved parking
and drop–off area for their vehicles, within 20 metres of its entrance.
The area should be marked with symbols and a system should be put in
place to ensure that others do not use the reserved parking space,
activists say.
'An information board carrying details of these facilities must be set
up at the entrance to the building itself, with appropriate signposts
installed at various points inside the parliament house to help
physically disabled visitors,' said Rajendra.
Introduction of Braille symbols, first hand help, ramps, railings, lifts
and accessible toilets are the other provisions which the activists
believe should be put at parliament house to make it a disabled friendly
zone.
Source: http://sify.com
Back to TopDisabled people put demands before welfare officer
KANPUR, 25 Aug: Indian Handicapped Association on Tuesday handed over a
memorandum to district Disability welfare officer and drew his
attention towards discrepancy in pension and other schemes for
disabled persons.
In the memorandum, the association claimed that in several cases
disabled people get pension only once and thereafter they do not receive any
pension. A list of such complainants was also presented.
The police have taken no action in this regard. The association alleged
that application forms of disabled people who had applied for a residential
house under Kanshi Ram Urban Housing Scheme were not considered.
Therefore, their applications should be reconsidered for the allotment
of houses.
Emphasising on the need for financial assistance, the memorandum also
demands that loans should be provided to all those handicapped who wish
to open their own shops. Moreover, funds should also be given for organ
transplantation of disabled people.
Virendra Kumar, national president of the Indian Handicapped Association
said, "All the handicapped people should be provided with loans,
residential houses and regular pensions. If our demands are not met then
we would stage a dharna at the district Handicapped Welfare Office.''
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Back to Top49 new polio cases in Bihar
Patna, Aug 24: As many as 49 new cases of polio have been detected in Bihar in the past seven months despite immunisation drives, a health department official said Monday.
The new figures were revealed by a new polio status report released by the Indian National Polio Plus Committee Rotary International here.
"Of the 236 cases reported in India this year, 181 cases were detected in Uttar Pradesh, 49 in Bihar, four in Delhi and one each in Rajasthan and Uttarakhand," said Anil Kumar Singh, a health official.
This spells bad news for the ongoing battle against polio in Bihar, which has been recording the second highest incidence of the disease in India for the last few year after neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.
A Unicef official said that of the 49 polio cases, 16 are of the highly infectious polio strain virus P1 and the remaining are P3 strain cases.
"The detection of new P1 cases is a matter of serious concern," he added.
Bihar recorded over 300 new polio cases in 2008, one of the highest since the polio immunisation drive was launched in the state nearly a decade ago, an official had said.
The state recorded 61 polio cases in 2006 and 193 cases in 2007.
Source: http://www.thaindian.com
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