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Pakistani student creates a device for the visually impaired

A Pakistani student from Peshawar has developed a device that helps people with visual impairment walk. The device, Sonic Eye, includes a white stick which has a navigation device attached along with a sensor that buzzes each time it detects an object in close proximity. The student behind the device, Hafsa Jamal, stated that she is also preparing a mobile app which would help the visually impaired navigate using their phone instead of a stick altogether.Late last year, students from Karachi University developed several applications for Android and websites.

World’s first ever IT park for the disabled soon to come up in Hyderabad

For the first time ever, a specially designated IT park is soon going to be established for persons with disability (PwD) in Hyderabad near the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Shamshabad. Under a model of Public-Private Partnership, the government of Telangana has allocated 10 acres of land for this project. The announcement was made on December 3 on the account of International Day of Persons with Disability.

Microsoft's Seeing AI app for the blind now reads handwriting

NEW DELHI: Apart from the Bing update and Cortanaenhancements, Microsoft also revamped is Seeing AI app for iOS. The company announced the changes at the ongoing Microsoft's AI Summit in San Francisco.

Divyang centre: Injured on duty, paramilitary soldiers take on new skill sets

Introduced by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) last year in December, the Divyang Skill Development Centre (DSDC) has started giving training in gardening and mobile repairing to develop entrepreneurial skills among the physically handicapped soldiers.

The centre, anchored by the Border Security Force (BSF), was introduced to impart skills among paramilitary troopers who have suffered grievous physical injuries on duty rendering them physically disadvantaged.

Delhi students with special needs have to make do with ill-equipped schools, teachers

Since Ganesh was two, his father Sunil Khandelwal could tell that his son was “different”. Now 13, Ganesh was constantly hyperactive, and Sunil says he consulted a long list of doctors for treatment, including ones at the All India Institute of Medical Science.

Ganesh was diagnosed to be severely intellectually impaired when he was five.

Gold to Indian para swimmer bank employee

I inform with pride that our Indian para swimmer Ms. Kanchanmala pande, a totally blind international swimmer and working in RBI, has bagged gold medal at ongoing IPC world para swimming championship at Mexico City in 200 M Individual medley.

World Disability Day: ‘Don’t feel disabled but at times people make me feel so’

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.

New Act will be boon for persons with disability: Madkaikar

MARGAO

The state government has passed the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 (Central Act), however, the rules are being framed and the file in this regard has been forwarded to the law department, informed Social Welfare Minister Pandurang Madkaikar.

He was speaking as a chief guest at a programme held to commemorate International Day for Persons with Disabilities here, on Tuesday.

Celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities at IGNOU

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.

City needs to see their problems too

BENGALURU: For 30-year-old Nagaraju, November 26 was very unlike his normal days. This bank employee is used to finding his way to his office near Vidhana Soudha every day from his house in Kamala Nagar about 10 km away. However, that day, he had to head to Jakkur for a training programme and his routine went haywire. While for most people it just means just a change in bus route, for Nagaraju and his friend, it meant a world of planning. The reason — Nagaraju and Anil are part of the city’s visually impaired population.