New Delhi, October 1: A 15-year-old visually impaired girl completed 500-km journey from Manali in Himachal Pradesh to the Khardung La mountain pass in Jammu and Kashmir on a tandem along with her father. Manasvi Baheti journey comes in the wake of an initiative, India’s first blind-and-sighted tandem expedition organised by Adventure Beyond Barriers Foundation (ABBF).
Did your hearing get better after you lost your vision?”. I can almost guarantee that someone will ask me this question when having a conversation about my vision loss. Hey, I understand…inquiring minds want to know, and I have no problem answering this commonly asked question. I will typically explain how I focus harder on my hearing now, as well as other senses, to fill in the visual blanks with information about my surroundings. Going blind did not instantly give me any blind girl superpowers. Nope. There was no magic or lightning bolt moment.
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Srinagar, October 3
Governor NN Vohra and First Lady Usha Vohra inaugurated Satya Devi Resources Centre for Visually Impaired at Delhi Public School, Srinagar.
Vijay Dhar, chairman of the school, Kiran Dhar and a number of eminent citizens of the town were present on the occasion.
THE wind on my face was exhilarating and it made me feel good to be alive,” recalled Kiw Sin Ee.
The 24-year-old lass from Johor was describing her experience after cycling 400km from Kuala Lumpur to Perak in a tandem bicycle expedition.
“There were times it was so hard, especially going uphill, but when we went downhill, it was so much fun,’’ Kiw said, adding that it really tested her resilience.
Graham Steel has talked with State lawmakers this year about maintaining funding for talking books and other resources for people who are blind or visually impaired. The Wyoming Council of the Blind president also met with Gov. Matt Mead to advocate and spread awareness about issues for people who are blind and have low vision in Wyoming.
Steel also invited American Council of the Blind President Kim Charlson to the organization’s annual state convention, which was held Saturday in Casper.
At the venue of the ongoing Exhibition of Modern Indian Art at Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi, Sector 16 Chandigarh, a unique workshop for the visually- impaired children was organised.
JAMMU, Sept 25: Shubham Tandon, 19 year old visually impaired student of Jammu, has proved that nothing is impossible and disability can’t stop anyone to succeed if the one is determined.
He has won “Light House Vision Scholarship ” and is now representing India in a week long training ca-mp at US Space & Rocket Centre.
He is the Ist visually impaired student of J&K, who got this opportunity. He is one among thirty other worldwide scholarship winners from different countries, who have been selected for this Space Camp at Huntsville (Alabama), USA.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has opened the doors for colour-blind students to pursue MBBS course by ordering the admission of two such candidates, who have scored high marks in the entrance examination, for the next academic year.
Terming its action as “transcendental importance of justice”, the apex court said that peculiar facts and circumstances of the case required it to invoke special powers under Article 142 of the Constitution.
Tribune News Service
Shimla, September 23
Muskan Thakur, a Blind girl and a budding singing talent, will be the youth icon face of the Election Commission of India for the upcoming Assembly elections in Himachal.
Muskan, a first semester student of MA (music) in Himachal Pradesh University, hailing from remote Chirgaon area in Rohru subdivision of Shimla district, has been a meritorious student throughout. She was given laptop by the government for figuring in merit in class XII examinations.
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