“Nearly 10 per cent of India’s population have various types of disabilities, and everyone should try to help them overcome their handicap,” J.S.S. Prasad, SBI Regional Manager, said. He was speaking at a function held at Helen Keller’s High School for the Deaf here on Thursday. The bank sets apart a certain quota to physically challenged persons during recruitment, he said.
Maintaining that persons with corrupt minds were the real disabled ones and not those with physical disabilities, Government Arts College Principal N. Subbanarasaiah exhorted students to study with concentration for at least three hours a day rather than mug up subjects for 18 hours without any interest.
“Discipline, good habits and education help students succeed,” Subedar Major Rajbir Singh of 30 Andhra NCC Battalion said. Hearing impaired students should not be cowed down by their disability, SBI Branch Manager Y.S. Nagaraju said.
Hearing-impaired students at the school are being trained to forge ahead in all fields, school correspondent P. Dowlath Khan and principal M. Masuda Begum said.
Prizes and certificates were given away to winners at the district-level talent search competitions conducted for physically challenged, hearing impaired, visually impaired and differently abled students on November 28 and 29.
