Hello,
A key issue pertaining to blind people in professional courses and higher education, is the question of copyright over various books, and its impact on limiting the material available in braille. An expert on this issue is Dr Prabuddha Ganguly, I am copying this mail to him. He might want to share his thoughts.
Barun
2009/7/1 Prime Point Srinivasan <prpoint@gmail.com >
dear friendsJust now, I saw a news item in Bihar Times that Dr Abdul Kalam will attend a mega workshop on the eradication of blindness to be organized in Patna on July 16-17. According to the director in chief, health service, Shatrughan Prasad Singh, Dr Kalam will deliver a key-note address in the two-day meeting organized by Vision 2020 India. The health department of Bihar is extending supporting to the programme.Yesterday, one of my friends told me over phone that the leading Universities like Indira Gandhi Open University, Madras University, Anna University, etc. do not admit blind people for higher education and they do not have the proper supporting system. There are lot of blind students, who are highly intelligent, who are not able to pursue their education.Actually, i was thinking of meeting one or two such students this week to study extent to which Indian Universities support blind people for their higher education. I wanted to take up with Dr Kalam on behalf of our group. I was pleasantly surprised to see the report that Dr Kalam will be addressing the workshop on blindness at Patna.I request members to share their views immediately (before Friday), as to the support provided by the Indian Universities for blind people. If you do not want to reveal your identity, please send your mail to me privately. I will take only the information.Members who are in other countries may also kindly share as to how Universitiesin those countries treat the blind students. On behalf of India Vision Group, let us submit a brief note to Dr Abdul Kalam for his perusal. If there is some system flaw, we can request Dr Kalam to take up with our Prime Minister at personal level.SrinivasanModerator
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