The Union cabinet Thursday approved a proposal for setting up the Centre for Disability Sports at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, to be registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
The setting up of the centre shall entail an estimated cost of Rs 170.99 crore over a period of five years, an official statement said.
The smartphone has been a clairvoyant for those in the dark for a while now — from reading street signs to telling the time and gauging physical surroundings. After all, 90% of the information processed by the human brain is visual
Enter the Envision and Be My Eyes apps which promise all this and more, with a focus on diversification, privacy and inclusivity.
NEW DELHI: The visually-impaired student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), who failed his semester exams, has now been given zero year by the administration.
Life of a visually impaired girl from a backward socio-economic background is far more challenging than one can imagine. And city-based Meera Shenoy realises that on a daily basis in the government girls school where her organisation, Youth4jobs, work towards the well-being of these students.
Offering a first-of-its-kind opportunity to 50 visually challenged students, the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) marked National Science Day on Thursday by, among other events, taking them on a journey across the mountains, craters and other features on the inundated surface of planet Venus.
NEW DELHI: Over 10,000 students from government schools, DU, IP University and NCC are to assist the chief electoral officer of Delhi during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
For the first time in India, the researchers and scientists of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-D) Delhi, has developed a ‘DotBook’- the country’s first Braille Laptop for the blind students and the community. This laptop which is exclusively created for the differently abled will be afforadable and have refreshable Braille display.
The General Science question paper of High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) Exam 2019 asking visually impaired students to draw diagrams raised objections from a number of people.
The chief electoral office (CEO) in Jharkhand on Tuesday announced a series of measures to ensure hassle-free participation of voters with disabilities in the Lok Sabha elections.
State’s CEO, L Khiyangate said that visually impaired voters would be provided with Braille enabled voter slips and pick and drop facility would be given to the physically challenged persons in coming parliamentary elections. Khiyangate said that the initiatives were taken as part of Election Commission of India’s (ECI) strategy framework for ‘accessible election.’
The Chief Electoral Officer of the State today announced that a slew of measures will be introduced in the forthcoming general elections for free and fair polls. The ECI is going to introduce Citizen Vigilance (C-Vigil) App, through which any voter can inform ECI, if he or she finds any violation of model code of conduct in the elections in their booth.
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