Hi I am wondering what this is all about. Lead content is found in ink and in ink-print there would be lead content. While in Braille, the printing is done by embossing. Even the old days printer would use zinc sheet and the computer printers have metal pins made of steel to emboss.
I am baffled! Would someone fill me in? Harish. -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of avinash shahi Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2017 11:32 AM To: accessindia <[email protected]>; J L Kaul <[email protected]> Subject: [AI] Case to ponder: kolkata HC takes on: "Lead braille affecting kids, PIL tells court" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/lead-braille-affecting-kids-pil-tells-court/articleshow/61599469.cms KOLKATA: A visually impaired advocate has urged Calcutta high court to give an order to replace all lead-made braille prints with plastic ones. In her PIL, she attached a survey that shows blind student using braille scripts with high lead content are increasingly complaining of sleeplessness, lack of apetite, gastric ailments and loss of memory...Petitioner Snigdha Acharya, the daughter of retired high court judge Shankar Acharya, is now studying for her post-graduate diploma on public health care and medicine law at the National University of Juridical Sciences...A report by the National Test House shows braille scripts have 98.11% lead content. This is a major health hazard for the visually impaired, the PIL states, adding, "The Centre and states are negligent about lead's harmful effect on blind students."..Snigdha's counsel Srikanta Dutta argued, "The state is distributing braille devices, which have high lead content, sent by central agencies without taking any precaution. The Centre should use plastic to make braille devices."..After the PIL was moved, the division bench of Acting Chief Justice Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya and Justice Arijit Banerjee fixed the hearing for 2pm. But no one turned up to represent the Centre. The court then adjourned the hearing till November 17 and declared that if no one appears on behalf of the Centre during the next hearing, the court will proceed with the case any way.. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU The list has now migrated to www.accessindia.inclusivehabitat.in You should now post to the id: [email protected] Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. ________________________________ Caution: The Reserve Bank of India never sends mails, SMSs or makes calls asking for personal information such as your bank account details, passwords, etc. It never keeps or offers funds to anyone. Please do not respond in any manner to such offers, however official or attractive they may look. Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this email by error, please notify us by return e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Reserve Bank of India accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. The list has now migrated to www.accessindia.inclusivehabitat.in You should now post to the id: [email protected] Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
