By Tan Yingzi in Chongqing
Partially blind former doctor acts as the 'eyes' of her friends on travel adventures
Cai Meiqi (front) guides her visually impaired friends to visit a scenic area on the outskirts of Chongqing. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)
Kiefer Jones, a former Fairmont resident who lives in Calgary, played in the 2018 Canadian National Blind Hockey Tournament in Toronto March 30th to April 1st.
Players from across the country were divided according to their level of sight and skill and placed into teams, Mr. Jones said. Those who are fully blind played as goalies, while those who have limited vision filled the rest of the positions.
“The people are still pretty fast,” Mr. Jones said, adding that friends and family members watching the games “almost forget that people are visually impaired.”
Bhartesh Singh Thakur
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 15
The Panjab University (PU) authorities have declared e-rickshaws free for the physically-challenged students on the campus.
Earlier, the service was given for free to only the poor physically challenged students. But when no student came forward with the application, the PU has declared it free for all of them.
Chandigarh: Punjab minister of social security, women and child development, Razia Sultana on Tuesday said 21 disabilities would be covered under the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
Sultana chaired the first meeting of the state advisory board on disabilities constituted under the Act, on Tuesday.
Reading the menu at a restaurant wouldn’t take much effort for most sighted diners. But for the blind and visually impaired, trying to figure out what to order and what the meal would cost could be a daunting experience.
Just ask Stephanie Jones, who had to rely on her children and friends to read the menu so she could order what she really wanted. “Whoever was with me would read the menu,” said Jones, the mother of five children. “I used braille menus in the past, but they’re not always updated. But you learn to work through it.”
A children’s movie Netraheen Sakshi (The Blind Witness) was screened at Madhya Pradesh State Tribal Museum here on Thursday. The movie was screened under the regular film screenings of the tribal museum ‘Ullas’.
The movie is based on the life of a blind boy who can actually identify people correctly through their voices. But, what he witnesses formed rest of the story. The movie is directed by Nabendu Ghosh and features, Beena Bannerjee, Alok Nath and Manisha Patel in lead roles.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Centre to place before the RBI suggestions made by the visually-impaired on ways to distinguish between various denominations of currency notes with help of features like cut edges or different shapes and sizes.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/put-proposals-of-visually-impaired-before-rbi-hc/article23498051.ece
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal came to rescue of a visually impaired candidate by directing the Centre to appoint him to civil service and allocate a suitable post based on the rank he secured in Civil Service Examinations 2016. A two-member bench comprising Justices R. Kantha Rao and Minnie Mathew allowed an application by Rizwan Basha Shaik from Kurnool, challenging the proceedings issued by the Department of Personal and Training (DoPT, IAS division) cancelling his selection.
Gurbir Singh Dehlon, a visually impaired athlete from Ludhiana, has brought fame to his parents and the coach by clinching two medals in the recently held Para National Athletics Championship.
Gurbir, a total blind athlete, participated in this championship held at Panchkula where he finished at the victory podium in two events. He finished ahead of others to annex gold medal in the 400-metre race besides winning bronze in the 200-metre race.
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