Amid the plethora of issues being raised by the political parties as the campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls is assuming a feverish pitch, the people with visual and hearing impairments rue that every political party has turned a blind eye to their issues. The absence of the issues related with the rights of the disabled, job opportunities for them and providing a respectable position in the society irks most of the disabled.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Gokul S, an MA Literature student of Mar Ivanios College, Nalanchira has been participating and winning prizes in the Kerala University Youth Festival for the past five years. Despite the fact that he is visually impaired, Gokul made sure that his voice is heard thereby participating in election and debate competitions.
CHENNAI: Chennai holds a special place in former West Indies cricket captain and legendary batsman Alvin Kallicharran’s heart as his mother Padma was born here. Each visit is a celebration, and he was here on Monday for the pre-launch of his upcoming book Colour Blind. The event was held at Amir Mahal where he spoke about cricket and the book.
At least 15,831 voters’ slips are being prepared in the Braille script for visually impaired voters in Jharkhand. Besides, Dummy Ballet Sheet and Voters Guide are also being printed in Braille for visually impaired voters in all the districts, Additional Chief Electoral Officer Manish Ranjan said on Saturday.
“These dummy ballet sheets will be made available in every polling station,” he said.
The visually impaired voters coming to the polling station will be informed about the process of voting through this dummy ballet sheet, so they can use their vote well.
CHENNAI: Government staff with visual impairment appointed for election duty were turned away from training programmes as the officials allegedly claimed their appointment was a ‘mistake’.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that there are over 1.3 billion visually impaired people, of which more than 36 million are blind. Home to the world’s second largest population, blindness is no stranger to India. According to a report by Centre for Sight, one of every three blind people is an Indian. The country is home to over 30 per cent of the world’s blind population—an estimated 12 million.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday told the Bombay High Court that it is in the process of making a mobile application to aid visually impaired persons to identify Indian currency notes.
Chief Justice Naresh Patil and Justice N M Jamdar were hearing a petition filed by the National Association of the Blind (NAB), seeking directions to include distinctive features in new coins and notes for easier identification by the visually impaired.
Remember going to the exam hall? The butterflies in your stomach, sweaty palms, and feverish prayers that the questions be easy – then the post exam stress of how well you’d score!
Most of us write our exams out of compulsion and, well, because we don’t really have a choice. Now think of someone who has braved the exam stress over 10 years, writing a whopping 681 exams, and all of it willingly. That is NM Pushpa Preeya for you - an exam scribe from Bengaluru, who was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar this year.
Facing safety challenges, visually impaired women across the state are forced to carry folding knives and safety pins. A survey on the condition of working women with visual impairment conducted by Karnataka State Government Employee's Association for the Blind also stated that the government has not trained them in navigation and smart mobility technology such as the smartphone app Eye-D, electronic canes, Google Map and other navigational aids.
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