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Bedi launches vision screening drive for poor students

New Delhi, August 20

Former Indian cricket skipper Bishan Singh Bedi today launched a vision screening campaign for underprivileged children in Delhi.

He distributed free spectacles to 27 children of Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Pandara Park, where 314 students were screened to identify any visual impairment or eye conditions and prevent avoidable blindness as a part of a joint initiative here.

“Vision is as much critical in children's education as it is in the playing fields. It is vital in childhood and in later life,” said Bedi.

LISTEN WITH THE LIGHTS OFF: 19 PODCASTS ABOUT BLINDNESS | SUSAN KENNEDY

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I was scared of losing my sight… then writing brought me clarity

Paola Peretti is losing her eyesight and she wouldn’t have it any other way. When she was 14, she became very short-sighted, virtually overnight. Three years later came the diagnosis of Stargardt macular dystrophy, a degenerative disease that destroys central vision, damages colour perception and results in blindness.

Delhi school for visually impaired running in ‘derelict’ building

Rustam Oraon, a Class 10 visually impaired student, had a narrow escape as a portion of the roof of his hostel room fell just beside him. The incident took place at the Government Senior Secondary School for Boys (Blind) hostel in north Delhi’s Kingsway Camp on August 8 after heavy rain in the national capital. This incident has occurred after a PIL on the condition of the building and the requirement of teaching staff was filed in the Delhi High Court earlier this month.

Blind athletes to headline India Asian Para squad .

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Why Ashwini Angadi's Belaku is the school that every blind child wants to be at

Just because you can't see doesn't mean you lack vision. The perfect example of that is 27-year-old Ashwini Angadi who has been visually impaired from birth. A popular person, her biggest claim to fame is that she is a global youth ambassador from Karnataka who works for the empowerment of differently-abled children.

HC relief for visually-impaired student

The Bombay High Court recently granted relief to a visually impaired student by directing the State board to add 20 grace marks to her result as she was not aware about the disability column to be filled.

A Division Bench of Justices Naresh Patil and G.S. Kulkarni was hearing a plea by Shaikh Mehmoona Abdullah, a student with 75% low vision. She failed Class XII in February-March 2017 and again in her second attempt in July the same year. She moved court in June 27, seeking a direction from the court to issue a fresh marksheet for two subjects in the 2017 exam.

At Red Fort, a more inclusive Independence Day

For children from the National Institute of People with Intellectual Disabilities (NIPID), Independence Day was a long one. After all, they had to wake up at 2 am to make their way to the Red Fort. But the energy at the section demarcated for differently abled children was like that at a concert — with frenzied cheering and clapping at the sight of the Prime Minister and his speech — translated by four interpreters at the venue.

10 crore Indians have no access to a pair of glasses’

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Travelling while disabled is hell. We need major change – and kindness Penny Anderson

Every day brings news of novel, cruel and unusual indignities inflicted on a human daring to travel while disabled. In the latest demoralising example, Steve Smithers was prevented from flying for the crime of carrying spanners, in case he used them to “dismantle the plane” instead of adjusting his wheelchair.