by Manas Mitra | May 20, 2018 | News
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...
by Manas Mitra | Apr 21, 2018 | Event, News
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...
by Manas Mitra | Mar 19, 2018 | News
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...
by Manas Mitra | Feb 24, 2018 | News
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...
by Manas Mitra | Feb 1, 2018 | News
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...
by Manas Mitra | Nov 6, 2017 | News
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...
