I need the contact No of Sanjeev Kumar quoted in the report, if anyone has his number kindly share with me. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/Ray-of-light-for-AU-blind-students/articleshow/5549500.cms Rajiv Mani Feb 8 2010
ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad University has taken a novel initiative to help blind students pursue education without any obstruction. As part of the endeavour, AU students will record the text books for their visually handicapped batchmates. And the students, who would be performing the task, would also earn a remuneration for themselves. . . The initiative has been taken by university's Jawaharlal Nehru centre for differently abled students under the University Grants Commission's earn while you learn scheme. . Talking to TOI, centre coordinator and AU's only blind teacher, Sanjeev Kumar said, "Presently, we have three blind students in AU. But once the text books are recorded, it would help us to attract more blind students to pursue their education in AU.'' Initially, the centre will engage 10 students for the purpose who would be recording the text of the recommended books on the recording system, which would be done directly on the hard disk of computers. . . Sanjeev added that blind students who are well versed in English language use the available software wherein the book is scanned and the computers read the text. But since the software is not available in Hindi, students from Hindi medium face problems. Once the text books are recorded, they would be part of the institute's library and students can use them, centre coordinator added. . . "The requirement is on an urgent basis as final exams will begin from next month. Within a limited period, we would have to record as much text as possible,'' he added. . . For selecting students for the purpose, Jawaharlal Nehru centre for differently abled students will conduct interviews at the office of dean student welfare on February 10 at 2:30 pm. Students selected for the task would be paid according to the norms laid down in the UGC scheme, Kumar informed. . . -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
