Author: Dialogue India

भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान (आईआईटी), दिल्ली के शोधकर्ताओं ने डॉटबुक नामक एक ऐसा ब्रेल लैपटॉप विकसित किया है, जो नेत्रहीनों के लिए उपयोगी हो सकता है। यह ब्रेल डिस्प्ले युक्त रिफ्रेशेबल लैपटॉप है, जिसमें नेत्रहीनों के अनुकूल ईमेल, कैलकुलेटर और वेब ब्राउजर जैसे एप्लीकेशन्स शामिल हैं। इसके अलावा, लैपटॉप में थर्ड पार्टी ऐप्स का उपयोग भी किया जा सकता है। डॉटबुक को 20पी और 40क्यू समेत दो वेरिएंट्स में लॉन्च किया गया है। विशेष रूप से डिजाइन किए गए इसके हैंड-रेस्ट की मदद से अधिक कुशलता के साथ लंबे समय तक काम किया जा सकता है। इन दोनों लैपटॉप में रिफ्रेशेबल ब्रेल डिस्प्ले लगाया गया है। 40क्यू वेरिएंट में एक पंक्ति में अधिकत 40 कैरेक्टर होते हैं, जो क्वर्टी कीबोर्ड और ब्रेल कीबोर्ड से लैस है। जबकि, इस लैपटॉप के 20पी वेरिएंट की एक पंक्ति में 20 कैरेक्टर होते हैं। वाईफाई, ब्लूटुथ और यूएसबी ...

Public Information Officers of many government-departments and ministries of central and state governments are wasting public-resources including needless extra-heavy spent of man-hours by transferring an RTI application to an unending chain of thousands of other public-authorities on queries of generic nature. DoPT circular dated 24.09.2010 specifically prohibits such multiple transfer of RTI application under section 6(3) of RTI Act. One such transfer through an Office-Memorandum dated 15.02.2019 was done by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Divyangjan of Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. It is also observed that some ministries and government-departments adopt such practice to avoid uncomfortable queries of RTI applications. DoPT should take every...

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