New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday commended the Election Commission for its initiative in providing Braille EPIC cards to the visually impaired in Karnataka and said such a measure would enable voting accessibility to all.
Students interact with motivational speakers and entrepreneurs during Changemaker Fest organised by Ashoka —India’s Youth venture and Tribune Model School, Sector 29, Chandigarh
Gurnaaz Kaur
Tribune News Service
Karnal, July 22
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday assured a visually impaired person an assistance of Rs 50,000 and directed Deputy Commissioner Aditya Dahiya to help him become self-employed.
The CM was here on Sunday at the PWD Rest House where he heard the grievances of the people without any prior plan.
As the people came to know about the arrival of the CM, they rushed to the rest house and apprised the CM about their grievances.
Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, July 22
Excitement knew no bounds for a visually impaired couple, Dr Prem Sagar and his wife Deepika Sood, as they watched ‘Sanju’, a Bollywoood movie, in a theatre on Saturday and could for the first time enjoy a movie with real-time audio descriptions of the silent or action part of the film.
Earlier this month, the Election Commission announced the launch of the electoral photo identity card (EPIC) in braille for millions of India’s visually impaired citizens.
Taking the initiative one step further, the braille EPIC cards were issued to three visually impaired voters in Karnataka in a bid to make the voting process a lot more inclusive.
Irrapa Hejagar from Gokak in Belagavi, Basvaraj from Jewargi in Kalburgi and Vina from Harihar received their braille EPIC cards from senior officials of the Karnataka election commission.
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Have you ever browsed the internet, our most basic need today, while being blindfolded? You would ask, what’s even the use of that? You might think that for a visually impaired person, the crucible of information that is the internet, is too far away from grasp.
Most of the information we consume is based on visual cues. From signboards on the roads to captcha filling on the internet, the world is set around a majority of people who are fully abled.
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I don’t know what it is, but I run across many people in my daily life who assume that blind people are super dependent on others for every little life task, or can do anything and everything extraordinarily well. To muddy the waters even more, there are subsets of blind people who have both spoken and unspoken rules of engagement for all blind people, regardless of ability, inclination, and work ethic. One subset, affectionately dubbed
Pathankot: The Army is planning a mega rally for disabled soldiers here later this year as it unveiled its programme to reach out to over 12,000 such soldiers spread across six northern States, reiterating its resolve to provide all possible help to mitigate their sufferings.
PUNE: The election department in Pune is all set to come out with a data on persons with disabilities (PwDs) by the end of this month.
How safe is our country for elderly and ailing people? Reports confirm that most of them face abuse under the hands of their own children! For instance, a 100 year old blind woman named Karishna Dasi from Ludhiana in Punjab, had to face abuse from her own daughter.
According to reports, Karishna was locked inside her daughter’s home for more than ten days. A social worker alerted the local police and advocates about the incident. They rushed to the house to find the blind and elderly woman having an extremely difficult time trying to survive.
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Parents of Avantika Sachdeva and Malini Anchan have been running from pillar to post to get the disability certificate for their children who suffer from various learning handicaps, to get admission in college. Learning that the hospitals are not equipped to allot the disability certificate to their children under current rules, they decided to approach Delhi Commission for Persons with disabilities.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to immediately declare the admission results for MPhil and PhD courses for the current academic session, barring the 5% unfilled seats for students with disability.
A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar said it had earlier stayed the admission for the courses to the unfilled seats for students with disability only and not the entire process.
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Jalandhar, July 16
Varinder Kumar Sharma, Deputy Commissioner (DC), Jalandhar, on Monday launched a revamped and user-friendly website of district administration (jalandhar.nic.in), based on S3Wass (Scalable and Sugamya Website as a service framework) platform, which would be available in two languages English and Punjabi.
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22 year Hina Rathi just cleared her preliminary exams for the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Hina is 100% blind, but has ensured that her disability is never a hindrance in her path towards success!
Clearing the prelims of the UPSC exams can be a herculean task to many. Hina’s story is all about hard-work, determination and passion to chase her dreams.
Parents and caregivers of disabled kids in Gujarat take note! A new centre called Urmi Divyang School Research & Therapy centre, which will look into research as well as therapy needs of disabled students has been opened in Sama in Vadodara.
The centre promises to reach out to children with physical and mental disabilities irrespective of their economic backgrounds. It will provide, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, sensory integrated therapy and speech therapy.
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