Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 17

Perturbed over the defunct lift at the District Administrative Complex (DAC), a city-based disability activist has knocked at the doors of the state Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities.

Ishan Rawal who has only 0.5 pc vision sits through 7-hour  reading sessions daily; appears for Class 12 exam.

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As I write this column with the intention of drawing attention to a large section of Indian population that lives on the margins of our society, I am thinking to myself: Does Anyone Care.

Does the media care? Do parents of ‘able’ children care? Do the politicians or bureaucrats care? Do schools and universities care? Do businesses care? Does the average individual care? And the resounding answer to all these questions is ‘probably not enough’.  Not enough to bring about a revolutionary change in the way persons with disabilities lead their lives or how we treat them.

NEW DELHI: Colour blindness may not remain a bar any more  for getting licence to drive private vehicles and those  with “mild or moderate colour vision deficiency” may get to  drive commercial vehicles too.

Read more: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/colour-blind-may-get-licence-to-drive/articleshow/74602993.cms
 

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