Around 68 visually-challenged girls view Dashraj Gyawali as a father-figure because he has let them stay at his Burari home for free till they complete their studies.
In 1998, a visually challenged teenage girl approached Dashraj Gyawali with a cry for help. She had just completed her schooling and had taken admission at Delhi University (DU).
A group of students and faculty members at a Bengaluru college have developed a software called Soft Braille to help visually impaired people get better access to images and maps in Braille.
Accessing images and maps is a major challenge for blind and low vision students, coming in the way of critical choices in academics. A new software aims to help them overcome those challenges.
An Indian-American led non-profit organisation has launched a public utility mobile app to locate and identify disabled-friendly buildings in India.
The NGO, Voice of Specially Abled People (VOSAP), announced the launch of mobile app during the United Nations Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities or COSP12, early this week.
A mobile app to find accessible places (for persons with disabilities) is very important in a country like India, it said.
Navigating airports can be tricky. They’re loud, crowded and not always laid out intuitively. They’re even more challenging for visually impaired people.
Chieko Asakawa knows those challenges firsthand, and she has also devised a remedy.
Chennai: Tamil Nadu has always been a forerunner in ophthalmology with many premier eye institutes training aspiring ophthalmologists in advanced skills and technology, besides providing world-class treatment for the patients, Chief Minister K. Palaniswami said here Saturday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, during her Budget speech on Friday, announced that the government will shortly be releasing new rupee coins for public use.
These coins will be in the denominations of one, two, five, 10 and 20 rupees.
Forces backed move to tax disability pension: Finance minister - Times of India
Bhanu P Lohumi
Tribune News Service
Shimla, June 30
Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) will be the first one in the country to have its own policy for persons with disabilities.
A committee, constituted by the Vice-Chancellor, will prepare the draft policy document which will be implemented after the approval of the Executive Council (EC).
A decision was taken at a meeting of the EC after the issue was raised by Ajai Srivastava, an EC member, holding additional charge of the nodal officer for disability affairs of the HPU.
According to the World Health Organisation, India has a blind population of 63 million. A substantial number lose their vision late in life and the consequent trauma is something that, leave aside families, even the medical fraternity is not equipped to address. That’s our focus on Story of the Week.
Until 2017, life was going as expected for Praveen Shankhdhar . An art director in an advertising agency, Praveen was in his 30s, married with a child. Then he started losing his vision due to glaucoma.
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