Tribune News Service

Panchkula, December 20

Members of the Netraheen Kalyan Manch here today continued their hunger strike in protest against the state government for failing to fulfil their long-pending demands.

Spokesman of the Manch, Ravish Kumar, said the government had filled 136 posts against the total of 182 vacancies in the group D category for visually-impaired employees. The government had failed to fill the backlog of reserved posts since 1995, he added.

MECON CMD, Atul Bhatt today inaugurated the IndusInd Bank Nagesh National Cricket Tournament for Blind 2018 – 2019 in the presence of Director (Technical), MECON P K Sarangi. Bhatt opened the occasion with a welcome greeting to all the players from Tripura, Tamil Nadu , Gujarat and Jharkhand, the organisers from Cricket Association for the Blind, National referee and International Delegate from Holland.

For 50 visually-impaired government school students aged between 14 and 16 years in Chhattisgarh, it marked the beginning of new hopes and a freedom from Braille. With the help of latest mobile technology, these excited children were trained to study their textbooks, helping them overcome their physical challenge in a way they did not think was possible before this. Each of them got a phone which had preloaded accessible textbooks, and they were taught to study these textbooks using latest mobile applications.   

Emirates NBD has announced the introduction of 'Traveller HD', an assistive technology designed to improve the branch experience for visually impaired customers.

Emirates NBD branches in Dubai Festival City, Hamriya and Al Qusais in Dubai will be the first to offer the high definition reader.

The Election Commission of India had given special facilities to the disabled to join the voting process in the recently concluded Assembly elections -2018 in Madhya Pradesh. Its effect was that the people of the state voted without any inconvenience.

Visually impaired voter Rani Patel of Jabalpur is delighted to vote for the first time with the help of Braille script guide.

She says that she has voted several times but Braille script guide was made available to her for the first time which she found to be very useful in making voting easier for her.