Asma Ali is happy. It has been two-and-a-half-year since she joined the Chandigarh’s Sector 7, Madhya Marg branch of the state Bank of India.

Having braved the challenges imposed for being 100% visually impaired from birth, she says she is satisfied that today she is self-dependent.

Everyday she attends customers at the front desk of her branch and patiently guides them. She handles the entries in the passbooks and issues token to the customers. “I feel very confident and independent by working here at the bank,” she says.

The Indira Gandhi National Open University’s (IGNOUs) National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS) is organising a series of activities at IGNOU for observing International Day of Persons with Disabilities during November 30 to December 6, 2017.

A painting competition was organized on 30th November, 2017 for the wards of University staff members on the theme “Sports for Persons with Disabilities”.  The children were divided into three age groups of below 8 years, between 8 to 12 years and 12 years to 17 years.  A total of 45 children participated in the painting competition.

The Supreme Court today asked Uttar Pradesh to come up a mechanism for promotion and facilitation of inclusive education, so that students suffering from disability are not kept away from mainstream education. The court sought a reply from the state government on how it would work out the provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, by providing inclusive education in the state.

Mobility and accessibility aids can help people maintain independence in the activities that are most important to them. We spoke to a few people with different disabilities about the aids that empower them 

Preethi Srinivasan, Founder Soulfree, quadriplegic due to a Spinal Cord Injury (pic above)

Inventors and creators seek to build a more inclusive world with hardware, software and services. The Hindu reports.

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