Chennai, April 2, 2026: Empowerment begins with opportunity. Inclusion begins with belief. When institutions choose to see ability instead of disability, they do more than educate — they transform destinies.

The story of N.L. Beno Zephine is not merely about a young woman who overcame blindness to become India’s first 100% visually impaired Indian Foreign Service Officer. It reveals what becomes possible when faith-based institutions create environments where every child — regardless of circumstance — is given the opportunity to dream, compete, and excel.

Visually impaired J-K girl secures 95% in CBSE Class 10 board exam
Srinagar, Apr 15 (PTI) A visually impaired student in Srinagar has scripted an inspiring story by securing 95 per cent marks in the Class 10 board examination conducted by the Central Board of School Education, the results of which were declared on Wednesday.
Zainab Bilal, who aspires to study computer applications, scored 475 out of 500, with a perfect 100 per cent in computer science.

In a remarkable achievement, two ‘Children of the State’, Amrit Verma and Mokshit Sharma, both studying at Government Senior Secondary School, Tutikandi in Shimla, have been selected for two different scholarships.

Verma has been selected for the INSPIRE Award, a scheme run by the Department of Science and Technology to promote creativity and scientific thinking among school students. Mokshit Sharma has been selected under the National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS). He will receive the scholarship until he completes his Class XII.

The British Council will contract Disability Associate Advisors (AAs) to work alongside our Cultural Engagement Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) team and programme teams to provide specialist input into our work, to help deliver the British Council’s objectives. 

We work towards disability inclusion through projects that address disability-related issues and promote the empowerment of disabled people, as well as through mainstreaming disability inclusion across all our programmes.

National Association for the Blind — Tamil Nadu has launched an initiative to distribute Vision Wallets to visually impaired individuals with an event organised at its office in Chennai on March 13. The assistive device spells out the denomination of a currency note