Differently abled youth gets best employee award from CM
The Hindu
Honour bestowed on International Day of Persons with Disabilities
A Tiruchi youth suffering from Down’s Syndrome has been recognised as the ‘Best employee with intellectual disability’ for 2021 by the State Government.
Twenty-five-year-old Joel Shibu Varkey, a diploma holder from Bharathidasan University’s Centre for Differently Abled Persons, who works as an assistant coordinator at The Dolphin Special School and also runs an optical shop in Tiruchi, was honoured with a medal and citation by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at a special ceremony to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Chennai on Friday.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.