The Braille version of a booklet — Climate Action: We Must Not Delay — dedicated to environmental issues such as carbon footprint, groundwater scarcity and air pollution was recently launched in the capital. The booklet, which was launched by N S Kang, secretary and director general, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, is part of the Science Express Climate Action Special.
For the last three years, a visually impaired teacher at a school in a village in Bulandshahr district, 55 km away from his residence at Modinagar in Ghaziabad, is running from pillar to post to get a transfer in a school close to his place.
Education and giving exams is no easy task for the impaired. And, those setting the papers seem oblivious to the issues plaguing these students, especially those attempting higher education tests.
Questions where it is necessary to see a diagram, figure, bar graph or chart are a bane for these students, even if they have a writer explaining it to them. And, question papers never take this into account.
About 40 kids in the age group of 5 to 15 years participate in the annual L V Prasad Eye Institute’s (LVPEI) camp every year from in and around the adjacent cities.
They go back not just learning a few songs, dances and poems, making friends for life and also getting trained to face life’s obstacles. Since its inception in 2011, the summer camp has given a new lease of life to many. Specially organised for the differently-abled children, the camp has been bridging the gap between them and the outside world.
The Directorate of Higher Education, Chandigarh Administration has directed all government colleges in Chandigarh to pay writers who appear for visually impaired students in their exam. As per the notification by the Higher Education Department circulated to the colleges, a writer will receive Rs 300 per paper to write the exam of visually impaired students and upto Rs 2,000 per student. Twenty-four visually impaired students are studying in government colleges in Chandigarh who will receive the writer financial assistance facility for the first time.
It takes a miracle for helpless people to get back on their feet and while many people are busy with their daily lives, they do not hesitate to help in every way they can. A radio jockey recently went out of her way to help a student who didn't have enough money to afford her meals and college and it is the best thing you will read today.
The National Book Trust has started publishing books in Braille and digital formats for blind readers, NBI chairman Baldev Bhai Sharma said.
“We have published more than 100 e-books and four books in Braille as the new copyright rules have made it easier,” Mr Sharma said.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/nbt-publishing-books-in-braille-digital-formats/article18462418.ece
BENGALURU: Among the 932 partcipants at Bengaluru 2017 Walk, an annual walkathon held in January, was Sowmya K Bhaskar, a human resource manager from Bengaluru who recently moved to Hyderabad. Being 90 per cent blind, Sowmya has crossed out walkathon from her bucket list as she completed a 50 km trail from Nandi Hills in 17 hours along with three of her colleagues.
Sowmya K Bhaskar along with her
team at the walkathon
NEW DELHI: Taking a big step towards making the campus disabled-friendly , Miranda House has become the first DU college to put up "digital vision signages" on its premises to help its 70 visually challenged students find their way across the college.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has registered 321 visually impaired candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Head, JAMB Information and Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Bwari.
Benjamin said that the figure was higher than the 201 candidates registered for the examination in 2016.
He said that adequate arrangement has been made for the visually impaired candidates to participate fully in the forthcoming UTME.
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