After much delay, the Delhi Development Authority launched its housing scheme on Friday. There are 13,000 flats on offer which will be allotted through a draw of lots.
Kanchanmala Pande, a completely blind para-athlete swimmer from Nagpur, along with five other athletes, was to participate in the Para-Swimming Championships at Berlin from July 3rd to 9th. But she was left in utter misery after the sponsorship money from Sports Authority of India was not released by Paralympic Committee of India (PCI).
With no money for hotel and food expenses, Kanchanmala resorted to begging on the streets of the German capital.
It’s an age-old saying that when you don’t have one of your senses, the others are exponentially heightened. One such example of this adage would be the amazing kids from Delhi-based Yoga Artist Group — a group of visually impaired students who perform acrobatic yoga under the training of Hemant Sharma, a social activist and a yoga teacher.
Ahmedabad: They can't see or speak but they do age, hit puberty and seek marriage. More often than not, they can't express what they feel and it results in physical and psychological issues.
Sense India has organized a national-level week-long training workshop for deafblind adults, their parents, caretakers and special educators in Ahmedabad which saw 54 participants from 14 states.
The District Central Library in the city will soon get funding under the National Mission on Libraries, an initiative of the Union government, for improving infrastructure.
Disclosing this here on Sunday, A.P.Sivakumar, District Library Officer, said Rs. 70 lakh had been sanctioned under the programme. Of the total funding, 75% would be contributed by the Centre and the rest by the State government.
If you have a disability, what’s the hardest thing about browsing the web?” The answers to Safia Abdalla’s tweet are truly eye-opening and shows us what web accessibility should really be about.
In this article I’ll summarize and group the main topics that people bring up in the thread.
But do click on the tweet and read through all the answers. It’s an awesome read for anyone interested in making the web a better place for all. And, in my opinion, a far better place to learn about accessibility than reading any checklist or standard.
NEW DELHI: The government has clarified its decision to levy 5% goods and services tax on assistive devices for the physically challenged, rejecting Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s allegation that the government has been “insensitive” to the disabled.
“Tax incidence is not going up but going down,” revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia said, even as he offered two reasons why these devices have not been exempted from GST.
The Central Railway plans to start a new helpline system to redress the grievances of the handicapped passengers and cancer patients. Following complaints from handicapped passengers that they were not getting adequate help when they called the helpline number 9004411111, the CR is all set to implement a new system where passengers just need to send an SMS on this number, which will then be forwarded to the concerned department.
India is home to over 100 million persons with disabilities as well as 100 million elderly people. Despite of knowing these facts and figures, there’s little that’s being done to cater to the special needs of these sections of the population. Moreover, in this digital age, multiple applications and information portals help us plan seamless experiences when it comes to travelling and exploring, adding to our social life. However, what about the social life of persons with disabilities and the elderly?
New Delhi, July 4
The central government on Tuesday refuted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's charge of GST rates being "insensitive" to the disabled, saying a discounted 5 per cent levy will bring down prices of assistive devices for physically-challenged and promote domestic manufacturing.
From Braille writers and Braille paper to wheelchairs, talking books, Assistive Listening Devices (ALD) and implants for the severely physically-challenged, as many as 22 items for them will attract a Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 5 per cent.
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