The Utkal Chamber of Commerce & Industry (UCCI) in collaboration with the International Council Education for Vision Impaired (ICEVI) began holding a two-day national-level seminar on skill development from Saturday at its premises here with about 150 visually-impaired persons from Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand participating in it.
Mumbai: For four Mumbaikars, years of hard work to ensure accessibility for persons with disabilities have finally paid off. They have figured in a list of 14 winners for this year’s Mphasis Universal Design Awards, instituted by the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People, an NGO.
A 58-year-old man, who the police said was partially visually impaired, died after he fell on the tracks and was crushed by a train at Mandi House Metro station on Friday evening.
The incident, which took place during peak traffic hours in the evening, delayed Metro services for over an hour, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) officials said.
RDL Visible Light Communication and Research Centre at Sahyadri Innovation Hub at Sahyadri Institute of Engineering and Management has developed VL glass for visually challenged. RDL Technologies Pvt Ltd CEO Raghavendra G Shetty said that it is a seamless indoor navigator and a visually challenged person can navigate around obstacles avoiding mishaps and dangerous objects.
All district central libraries in the State will have an exclusive section for visually challenged visitors as in Tiruchi.
The District Central Library in Tiruchi, a member of book-share organistion, has created 3,500 audio books with help of volunteers. A good number of visually challenged youth visit the audio section of the library on a daily basis to further their careers. At a meeting of such volunteers hosted by the DCL recently, a discussion took place on the way forward for empowering visually challenged readers.
Ahmedabad: Gujarat governor O P Kohli on Sunday felicitated four persons with visual impairment for their outstanding achievements, whereas two others were recognized for their work in disability sector as part of state level awards for outstanding blind persons.
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 2
The Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, Dr Kamlesh Kumar Pandey, has asked the Chandigarh administration to appoint full time Commissioner under the Persons with Disabilities Act to look into the grievances of the divyangs.
The Chief Commissioner reviewed the implementation of the Act. He also met the Punjab Governor and the UT Administrator, VP Singh Badnore, at Punjab Raj Bhawan.
When it comes to achieving dreams no obstacle should appear tough to overcome. There are many real stories that have time and again inspired us to see beyond the comfort zone in order to achieve our dreams. With women, they need to see others just like them taking part in something that seemed impossible until then. That’s their push and for us, Pinkathon is about ability, for everyone and anyone and that’s why Pinkathon is here in Chennai, says Milind Soman, founder of Pinkathon and the unofficial ambassador of running in India.
UGC-NET 2018: Five visually impaired students of the Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) have cracked the National Eligibility Test (NET), an exam to determine eligibility for assistant professors and junior research fellowships, a varsity official said Wednesday. One of them to clear the test is budding singer Muskan Thakur, who was declared as a “youth icon” of the election commission for the last year’s state assembly election.
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