Our guest writer this week is Arun Dua from Chandigarh. Dua works with the
NGO Disha, which produces audio books for visually impaired people and
offers advocacy, counselling, empowerment and support for assistive
technologies.
On the big day of polling for the Lok Sabha elections 2019, lack of arrangements at some polling booths made it difficult for differently abled persons to cast their votes in some parts of Dehradun.
The 4th edition of The Indian Blind Football Federation’s (IBFF) football tournament started on April 12 ends today. The 4-day tournament is hosted at The BullRing FeverPitch Football Arena, Yeshwanthpur
The tournament saw 16 teams with 160 players. A women’s blind football demo, comprising Bengaluru-based players, will also be organised today. In a conversation with Metrolife, Sunil J Mathew, coach of Indian Blind Football Team, talks about the techniques used and the challenges faced by the academy, players and more.
Thanks to the efforts of Election Commission of India, those with visual impairment can now cast their vote without any assistance in the general and byelections scheduled for April 18.
A demonstration on EVMs with Braille touch and dummy ballot papers was held at the Tiruvannamalai Collectorate where Collector K.S. Kandasamy reviewed the operations in front of a visually-impaired voter Vanitha.
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To make elections more inclusive, the Election Commission has instructed the chief electoral officers of all the states to print ballot paper in Braille for visually-impaired voters.
Uttar Pradesh chief electoral officer L Venkateshwarlu has directed the district electoral officers to make arrangements for Braille voting ballot paper to ensure their participation in the Lok Sabha elections beginning April 11.
Braille Ballot papers will be used to help the blind vote in the state.
HYDERABAD: For the visually-impaired, voting has always been a harrowing experience. Many of them have, for a long time now, complained that polling booths are not user-friendly. Even at polling stations with Braille ballot papers, issues are many. Some of them have asked the Election Commission to resolve their issues this election. They will find out on Thursday, the day they cast their votes, whether these requests have in fact worked.
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There were 13 people on screen, summiting Mount Kilimanjaro, at an altitude of 5,895 metres. There were nearly a 100 people in the hall, cheering them on, clapping each time they surmounted an obstacle, shedding a tear at their struggles, rejoicing in their bonding.
Rajaram Bishnoi from Nagaur, Rajasthan is a 41-year-old visually impaired person. He has a wife, a daughter and a son. Being visually impaired since birth did not stop Rajaram from completing his education and pursuing higher studies. He has a Bachelor’s as well as a Master’s Degree in Hindi . He is currently working as a second grade Hindi teacher in a school in Rajasthan.
Nagpur: The Gadchiroli district administration, keeping Maoist threats aside, has created special provisions for around 2,196 challenged voters, including 351 visually impaired. This is following the directives of the Election Commission of India (ECI), which has also created a mobile phone app for ‘PWD’ (person with disability), to help them seek benefits through it. In Maharashtra, around 2.24 lakh voters with various challenges are on the electoral list.
Pune In a bid to help visually impaired and disabled students, select students from Sir Parashurambhau College, also known as S P College, have formed a group called Divya Zhep. The group members conduct a number of activities throughout the year, right from providing them writer during the exams.
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On the auspicious occasion of a New Year(Yugadi), we would like to gift all our Visually Impaired friends our newly launched e-dictionary and an audio magazine named “Industry Mitra”. We are very proud to announce
that these are the latest addition to our library.
RNKS, A Jaipur-based charity, is actively working with persons with visual impairment since 1969. It has its own three story building at 3780, langar ke bala ji ka rasta, Gangauri Bazar, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
At present it runs A residential school up to 12th standard. It also has a large Braille press and a computer training centre for visually impaired adults.
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The recording club is a Whatsapp group that works towards making visually impaired persons self-reliant. in this whatsapp group, several leading newspapers published at regional and national levels across the country are sent to its members after converting them in to audio and accessible PDF format. besides this main activity, for the benefit of the blind students, our group also takes the initiative to record their educational books.
Now, the blind especially students and employees need not to ask anyone about the route number of any bus arriving at the bus stops as the Delhi Transport Department is planning to install digital audio announcements facilities at the ‘bus queue shelters’ across the Capital alike the metro station. The announcing facilities that will be fitted in both the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses and bus stops will tell the information related to the arrival of upcoming buses such as route number, name and time of arrival and departure.
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