NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the Centre’s response on a plea seeking mechanism for students with visual or auditory impairment to help them cope with online classes being conducted by educational institutions due to the ongoing pandemic.

A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad, conducting the hearing through video conferencing, issued notice to the Ministries of Human Resource Development and Social Justice and Empowerment and asked them to file counter affidavit. The court listed the matter for further hearing on June 2.

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For 33-year-old Apoorv Kulkarni, a person with low vision, it is cleaning utensils, getting broken gadgets fixed and not being able to choose between white and brown bread in a market aisle that’s taking a toll. “I have designed my life for an independent existence. But it’s little things that add up and stress me out.

CBSE Board Class 10, Class 12 Remaining Exam Date Sheet 2020 HIGHLIGHTS: The revised datesheet of class 10, 12 pending exams have been released. Check schedule here.

CBSE Board Class 10, Class 12 Remaining Exam Date Sheet 2020 HIGHLIGHTS:  The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the revised date sheet for the pending exams for classes 10 and 12. Board had earlier announced that the exams will be conducted from July 1 to 15. Today the detailed schedule has been released.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Unlike cricket, there is no diplomatic  issues when it comes to blindness. The 60-day online training  programme in assistive technologies for  education launched by a city-based NGO,  Chakshumathi, has students from Pakistan,  Europe, Africa, Caribbean islands along with those from India.
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Jammu: The School Education Department in Jammu and Kashmir is going to distribute 42 laptops among children who are visually impaired to provide inclusive educational support through technological interventions.

The laptops will be connected to braille tactile terminals lying in the resource rooms, School Education Principal Secretary Asgar Samoon said.
 

This will help the visually-impaired children to read and explore more learning resources from the internet,” he said.

KOCHI: You have seen him; the blind lottery seller, walking   ever so gently by the side of the bustling street. You might   have even bought a lottery from him regardless of whether  you have   a penchant for trying your luck or not. That man could have   been Venugopal Mani, the 32-year-old blind cricketer from  Badiyadka in Kasaragod district.