The Sports ministry on Wednesday announced the National Sports Awards 2023 as a visually impaired cricketer and captain of Indian Men's Cricket Team Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy has been named for the prestigious Arjuna Award.
Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy (Blind Cricket) is among the 26 sportspersons selected for the Arjuna Awards for outstanding performance in Sports and Games 2023, who will be awarded by the President of India at a specially organized function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on January 9, 2024.

Indore: Young Indians (YI) Indore, a youth-led organization under the banner of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), has installed Braille maps at key locations in Indore to facilitate movement of the visually impaired.
The Braille maps have been placed at C21 Mall, TI Mall, and the Nehru Park railway station to ensure that individuals with visual impairments can navigate these spaces independently and confidently, YI Accessibility vertical chairperson Naina Navlani said.
The installed Braille maps will provide information about  the layout of these locations.

Sparsh Bharati is an offshoot of Bharati script developed by IIT Madras professor.

After introducing the Bharati script V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, a professor of biotechnology in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras has developed a script for persons with visual impairment. 

The script has been tested on students and teachers in schools in New Delhi and they have given feedback as well. In videos of the experiment shared with The Hindu of the visually impaired persons learning the new script, all participants were excited as it was easy to learn.   

Jammu: December 3: In commemoration of the International Day of Persons with Disability, an event was held at the Residential School for the Visually Impaired (Boys) in Roopnagar.
The Social Welfare Department orchestrated the function under the overarching theme for this year’s observance: “United in action to rescue and achieve the SDGs for, with and by persons with disabilities (Divyangjan)

After an eight-month training period, Nisha was hired by CK Birla Hospital in Punjabi Bagh in its oncology department where she works from 9 am to 5 pm, detecting breast cancer in women visiting for a checkup.

Holding hands, Nisha and Neha are waiting at the reception of a Delhi hospital. For Nisha, 22, it is her first day at work. Neha, her senior with six years of experience, has come to support her younger friend. Both are vision-impaired medical tactile examiners (MTE) and can detect what those with vision may often miss – tumours in the breast.