Volume 1 Issue 1

Feature

• Hacked By Indonesia
  

Interview

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  H C Mahajan: NHFDC Chairman & Managing Director
  NHFDC collaborates with commercial banks for easy loans
  NHFDC Chairman and Managing Director H C Mahajan, in a candid interview with Sudeshna Banerjee admits to the problems NHFDC has faced and throws light on his constant endeavour to improve things.

News

• Delhi to become barrier free by 2008
  Delhi will be a disabled-friendly and barrier-free city by the year 2008, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation Chairperson Sonia Gandhi announced while releasing a document ‘Accessible Delhi – a road map 2003-2008’ on the birth anniversary of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on August 20, 2003.
• NCPEDP bags Samsung DigitAll Hope award
  National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) has bagged the Samsung DigitAll Hope Award, from global semiconductor leader Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., to provide scholarships and placement facilities to brilliant disabled students.
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  43 students get scholarship for higher education
  Forty three young, talented and aspiring disabled students across the country were awarded scholarships under National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People’s (NCPEDP) ‘Rajiv Gandhi Scholarship Scheme for Students with Disabilities’, to pursue higher education.
• Disabled students to get 3 per cent reservation in medical schools
  Three per cent quota will be made available to disabled students pursuing medicine in Delhi University.
• Cars get cheaper for disabled owners
  If you are a disabled person, and wish to own a vehicle, then there is good news for you. To own a car, you will have to pay only eight percent excise duty now.
• Heritage monuments to become disabled friendly
  As many as seven key national heritage monuments – Taj Mahal, Sarnath, Red Fort, Humayun’s Tomb, Qutab Minar, Jantar Mantar and Safdarjung’s Tomb – will be made accessible to disabled tourists, said Gauri Chatterji, Director General of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
• Centre sets up National Commission for Disabled Persons
  DNIS News Network – The central government has decided to set up National Commission for Disabled People to address the needs of disabled population of India.
• Karnataka to formulate disability policy
  DNIS News Network – Government of Karnataka has announced that very soon, it will frame a policy for the state’s disabled population. So far, no state in India has any specific policy for disabled people.
• Multiple disabled people can avail double I-T deduction
  DNIS News Network – If a person is hearing impaired and is also affected by mental retardation, he or his parents can avail a double deduction in income tax returns.
• Project to address disability rights
  DNIS News network - National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) have come together to fight for the rights of disabled people.