Interaction with the students about the importance of Career planning and its opportunity by Senior official from FreshWorks. Fifteen candidates participated in the placement meet.
Venue and date: Karna Vidya Foundation, Guindy centre on 1st December 2022
Three employers from Flextronics Technologies (India) Private Limited visited Karna Vidya Foundation, Guindy centre to understand the activities of the foundation on 29th October 2022
Teaching Engish to Learners with Visual Impairment through Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)”
Ms. Srilakshmi, a school student of Grade-8 from Karna Vidya Technology Centre, Guindy has helped for ‘live demonstration’ of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) project, demonstrated by Janani G (Kvf Intern)
Venue: Shrimathi Devkunvar Nanalal Bhatt Vaishnav College For Women, Chromepet on 28thOctober 2022
To strengthen the independence of the students by providing reading, writing, and typing practice for the visually impaired. Around 40 school students actively participated in the workshop.
New Delhi: Unfolding an inspiring and struggle filled journey of a visually impaired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, a book "I: Putting the Eye in IAS" reflects the author's life but is not an autobiography.
Having cleared the Civil Services examination in the year 2006, Rajesh Singh was appointed as an IAS after a long legal battle and intervention of the Supreme Court.
"Initially, it was very difficult to convince the whole system. There was reluctance on the part of the system to induct an IAS officer who is 100 per cent blind... Finally it was the judgment of the Supreme Court which made it clear that there is difference between eyesight and vision. To become an IAS you need vision and not eyesight," he said as his book was released recently.
Launched by Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan, the book is a work of fiction based on the journey of a young visually impaired boy from Patna. He fought against tremendous odds and put all his efforts to prepare for Civil Services examination.
Speaking at the launch, Sumitra Mahajan said," Creativity, ability and skills of differently abled and other marginalized sections of the society should not be wasted. As a pluralistic society, we must be more sensitive to the specific requirements of different segments."
Serving as the Joint Secretary, Department of Woman and Child Development and Social Security, Jharkhand and Project Director, Integrated Child Protection Scheme, Jharkhand, Mr Singh said that the real challenge was to prepare for the exams after which he had to go through the legal process.
"The real challenge comes when you prepare for the exam. But I was lucky enough to have so many friends around. I had to go through a lot of legal tangles. But it's not about bad or good people but it is about how people perceive visual impairment and to what extent they take you as an unavoidable asset for this nation," Mr Singh said.
Having graduated from Delhi University and completed his MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), where he was a Junior Research Fellow, Mr Singh feels that JNU is a laboratory for experiment of ideas and ideologies but criticized any kind of anti-national activities.
"JNU has always been a very happening place. It's a laboratory for experiment for so many ideas and ideologies. If some anti-national slogans have been raised here, I criticize it," he said.
"But somewhere down the line I would always say that JNU has given me a lot. It has improved my personality, my vision and the kind of equality I have seen at JNU, it is unmatched in the whole country," Mr Singh said.
These laptops have been preloaded with the job access with speech (JAWS) screen reader that provides speech and Braille output for most popular computer applications. The Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd, New Delhi, has donated 50 such laptops to JNU.
Vice-chancellor Sudhir Kumar Sopory, professor Manu Mitttal, chief advisor of the Equal Opportunity Office (JNU), and Sanjiv Garg, executive director of the RECL, handed over the laptops to the students. "It is society's duty to ensure every child receives the best possible education.," said Sopory.
She lost her vision when she had just stepped into youth. But it did not stop her from doing things girls of her age would normally do. Jidnyasa Chawaldhal, the sole female Nagpur Heroes awardee, could not adapt to mobility but today her students are alone crossing busy city roads and cooking full meals for their families.
Visualization has always been her sixth sense and keeps her motivated to work towards empowering the disabled.
Excerpts from the interview ...
Q. How has winning the award changed your life?
A. The award has given me something which I needed the most at this stage — recognition, especially among the educated class. Right after I won, a reputed institution of the city invited me as a chief guest for their Women's Day programme. Some days back, I called up a donor who congratulated me as soon as he picked up the phone. He had read about my work in The Times of India and didn't think twice before giving me an affirmative response. This was when I realized that the award has not just given me an identity but has also brought my work in the mainstream.
