Visually challenged gender activist Nidhi Goyal has blamed global airline major Lufthansa of insensitivity and apathy, alleging that she was “locked up” inside the passenger carrier’s disability assistance lounge at Munich airport while waiting for her flight to Mumbai.
The incident, Goyal said, occurred on Monday (November 13) when she was waiting for a connecting flight to Mumbai at the Munich airport.
Vanessa Bahati’s last born son was born with visual impairment. After visiting several hospitals in Europe and locally, the results were negative. The reality that her son would never be able to see propelled her to begin her charity organisation ‘Jordan Foundation’ which was named after her son.
The foundation is now home to other visually impaired children. The mother of four had a chat with Women Today’s Sharon Kantengwa on how the organisation has changed the lives of visually impaired children.
A group of students of the Nalgonda School for the Blind called on President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday, celebrating Children’s Day with other participating schools and institutions.
Sharing the experience of the meeting, General Secretary of the Development & Welfare Association of the Blind (DWAB) P. Chokka Rao said the event was a significant one, and it encouraged the students.
Visually-impaired people have urged the Election Commission (EC) to make necessary arrangements so that they can have the secret voting right.
At an interaction on election of the House of Representatives and provincial assemblies at Dhulikhel on Tuesday, the visually impaired also drew the EC’s notice to the lack of voter education programmes for the people with disabilities.
An awareness campaign about Amblyopia (lazy eyes) and squint (crossed eyes) was taken up by L.V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) on the occasion of Children’s Day and as part of Children’s Eye Care Week on Tuesday.
Amblyopia is a vision development disorder among children in which an eye fails to achieve normal vision even with full prescription glasses or contact lens. In most cases, only one eye is affected but if left untreated, it can cause severe visual disability in the affected eye.
Obstructions due to potholes, poles and kiosks on pavements, especially for the differently-abled, in Delhi University’s North Campus on Tuesday led the Delhi High Court to take civic body officials to task for “criminal negligence”.
The Assam Government will provide free textbooks to visually impaired students of the State, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Tuesday.
The Chief Minister made the announcement while releasing a guidebook for the visually challenged students for competitive examinations.
Mr. Sonowal said his government has taken up various programmes aimed at uplifting the lives of the 4.4 lakh ’dibyangs’ (differently abled) in Assam.
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 12
A Panjab University committee has approved the enhancement of reservation to persons with disability from 3 per cent to 5 per cent. It will be implemented from the 2018-19 session and has been done to comply with the provisions of the Persons with Disabilities Act.
The implementation of the 5 per cent quota will result in a reduction in the general category seats from 55.5 per cent to 53.5 per cent.
CHENNAI: The HC has suggested to the government to include lessons on ‘disabilities’ and rights of the disabled, as also the value of tolerance, empathy and respect for them in the school curriculum from the next academic year.
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