30 May 2019: This Bengaluru NGO is making India's railway stations blind-friendly
Over three years after making the Mysuru railway station India's first blind-friendly station, the NGO Anuprayaas continues to make public spaces more accessible to disabled people.
BOW -- Delaney Spain-Kelly was diagnosed at 18 months with an inoperable brain tumor in her hypothalamus.
Despite multiple rounds of chemotherapy aimed at controlling the tumor's growth, the malignancy began to press against Delaney's optic cavity, leading to severe vision loss.
She has light perception in her right eye and a quarter of her field of vision in her left.
Delaney is 9 years old. Doctors have predicted she will lose her sight completely by the time she reaches adulthood.
Accessibility was under the spotlight like never before in the recently held general elections in India. For the first time ever, an audit was conducted by members of the disability sector on the areas of concern and what should be looked at closely going ahead.
Accessible Elections was the much talked about buzzword in this general election and for the first time in India's history, the disability sector held a nationwide audit on how the accessible features actually panned out on the ground.
On May 31, Amarjeet Singh Chawla, 63, will set off on a marathon from Mumbai to Pune, a distance of about 150 km. Chawla, who is visually impaired, will do so to raise awareness about the the issue of ‘avoidable blindness’.
Chawla will be part of the awareness marathon — ‘No More Avoidable Blindness’ — an initiative of the National institute of Ophthalmology (NIO) Vision Marathon. He has already participated in 174 races, 106 half marathons, 64 10-km runs and four ultra marathons.
The general elections are coming to a close with just one more phase left on 19 May. There was an impressive turnout witnessed from the disabled community with the Election Commission of India (ECI) making special efforts to make voting accessible,
So, how has it panned out on the ground? Well, the views are rather mixed.
It’s called Ranchhod Sees the World and it’s an illustration picture book about Ranchhod Soni, a visually impaired teacher in Gujarat, who has not disability come in the way of discovering new things.
Bringing his story alive in a vivid and vibrant way for the first time is the Beyond Braille series which claims to offer breakthrough research to help visually impaired people visualise and imagine the world.
Arrangements for blind and partially sighted people to vote in secret are “a parody of the electoral process”, a high court judge has ruled in a decision that will force improvements to the system.
The legal challenge to the adaptation used at ballot boxes was brought by Rachael Andrews, 46, from Norwich, who has no sight in one eye and little sight in the other.
Kaveesha Kohli
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 2
Despite being partially visually impaired since birth, Ritik Goyal of the Institute for the Blind, Sector 26, has scored 94.8 per cent in humanities.
All of us have the desire to travel, explore unknown destinations, and embark on expeditions.
CHANDIGARH: No less than 12 students of the Sector-26 Institute for Blind have done well in their CBSE Class-XII examinations. The school offers only humanities stream and had nine boys and 3 girls as candidates.
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