|
IGNOU to start courses for deaf students
Sunday October 14, 2012 06:59:43 PM,
IANS
|
|
|
|
|
New Delhi: The Indira
Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will soon start
undergraduate, post-graduate and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.)
courses for deaf students, an official said Sunday.
The courses, under IGNOU's Indian Sign Language Research and
Training Centre (ISLRTC) will start in a phased manner, it was
announced here on the first foundation day of ISLRTC in the
university campus.
"Our objective is to reach the unreached and with the
establishment of ISLRTC, this mandate of the university stands
tall," said Gopinath Pradhan, Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU.
"While introducing such programmes, we are aiming to improve the
skills of the deaf community in the country and also uplifting a
particular section in the society by imparting training to them."
A.S. Narayanan, General Secretary, National Association of the
Deaf, said: "We are striving to have ISLRTC branches all over
India. Currently, we need four lakh interpreters while there are
merely two hundred."
ISLRTC, sponsored by the Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment, was set up last year to strengthen the identity of
Indian Sign Language (ISL) as a bona fide language and promote its
use in educational and social settings.
|
|
Home |
Top of the Page
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
I |
|
|
|
|
More Headlines |
|
Early poll talk notwithstanding, SP, BSP not in a hurry to strike |
|
Its raining discounts, freebies this festive season! |
|
Madhubani violence forces
Nitish to defer 'Adhikar Yatra' |
|
Unfit paramilitary aspirants need to be told reasons: Court |
|
Activists seek temporary abattoirs in Mumbai
for Eid-ul-Azha |
|
Corporates are the new zamindars of India:
Land reforms activist |
|
Dalai Lama warns against genralizing Muslims
as negative force |
|
Amnesty asks Kashmir government to repeal 'lawless law' |
|
Now, go for a free online vision test |
|
Great Prophet World Prize will be Iran's answer to Nobel Prize |
|
|
|
Top Stories |
|
 Madhubani violence forces
Nitish to defer 'Adhikar Yatra'
Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar Sunday deferred his 'Adhikar Yatra' to Buxar
and Bhojpur districts in the wake of violent protests in Madhubani
over the killing of two people
»
Violence in Bihar town escalates; protesters
this time torch police station
Bihar: Angry protesters clash with police; torch collectorate, SDM office
|
|
|
|
Most Read |
|
Shinde discusses measures for zero infiltration into Kashmir
Union Home
Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, at a unified headquarters meeting
here Saturday, discussed measures to strengthen the fencing on the
Line of Control (LoC) to ensure »
|
|
Great Prophet World Prize will be Iran's answer to Nobel Prize
Iran, which only has one Nobel Prize laureate, announced the
inception of a rival award intended solely for outstanding
scientists of the Islamic world, the country's news agency Fars
said Saturday. The Great Prophet World Prize will be bestowed
biennially on "the Muslim world scientists
»
|
|
|
|
News Pick |
|
 Solidarity rally in Maharashtra for Pak teen
injured by Taliban
Hundreds of schoolchildren Saturday took out a protest march from
a mosque here to condemn the attack on teenaged Pakistani peace
»
|
|
Dubai to build its own Taj Mahal
The UAE emirate
of Dubai plans to build its own Taj Mahal at a cost of $1 billion.
Taj Arabia will be about four times the size of the original
monument in India, the Gulf News quoted the developers as saying
last week.The billion dollar project »
|
|
PM for maintaining fine balance between RTI,
privacy
Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh Friday called for fine balance between
right to information and right to privacy, an issue that cropped
up after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi sought details of
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's foreign travel bills, which include
those for health reasons
»
|
|
Obama's
wedding ring inscribed with 'Allah'?
Only three weeks away from the U.S.
Presidential Elections facing off a tie between the two parties,
new photographs of President Barack Obama’s wedding band have been
published online, claiming the ring to have the »
|
|
|
|
Picture of the Day |
|
 |
|
President
Pranab Mukherjee presenting a degree to a student at the 8th
Convocation of King George's Medical University, at Lucknow,
in Uttar Pradesh on October 12, 2012. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comments
|
Quick links