On Monday 04 September 2006 11:15 am, krishnakant Mane wrote:
The reason i raise the cost bogey all the while is personal. I see two blind vendors on Dadar station selling bag lock chains.
The Situation is quite different from your several years back experience. I don't know how many years ago you are talking about.
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but due to my research work I have been all over India and today the computer litrecy of blind persons is ironically highest in asia and our country is amongst the highest in the world.
Are u talking of "85% of the blind in India are computer literate" or of "4% of blind Indians are computer literate which is the highest in Asia" which means that everyone else has less than 4 % of their blind citizens computer literate.
secondly, not just the skillsets the payment capacity of these people have also n\ increased. just looking at two lock chain venders we can't conclude. secondly for a device as important as we are talking about, let me inform the list that organisations like lions club do a lot of donations to blind people in masses for life important things. rather just 2 months back 150 seloron computers were distributed with talking software (screen reader) to 150 blind people by lions club. and I am giving only one such example. today almost every college has more than 15 blind students on an average. and at the pg level it is even more. think about their basic skillsets?
agreed. Could u point out some place on the web where i can find stats about India's visually handicapped? Looks like i am shooting in the dark. But apart from that u will be excluding ordinary people from the benfits of the system by mandating special devices.