‘Grants Not Reaching Visually Challenged’ By Express News Service
Published: 31st August 2014 06:00 AM Last Updated: 31st August 2014 03:36 AM CHENNAI: Grants from schemes like the National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act have failed to reach the visually challenged, said VIT University founder and chancellor G Viswanathan on Saturday. Quoting reports, he said, there were irregularities in disbursement of funds to the visually impaired. This emphasises the need for a government initiative to stop such malpractices. According to him the world has 3.70 crore visually impaired people of which 40 per cent are in India alone. He wanted the mobile tracking device, distributed to 75 visually challenged students, to be distributed across the State. India, he pointed out has only 20 per cent gross enrolment ratio which is less compared to developed nations. http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/%E2%80%98Grants-Not-Reaching-Visually-Challenged%E2%80%99/2014/08/31/article2406925.ece Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in 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..
