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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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.
arents 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.
To provide effective e-governance facilities to the common man, the district administration has launched its revamped website, barnala.gov.in, which is readable to visually impaired people also. The NIC, Barnala, has connected its website with the S3WAAS platform.
Barnala Deputy Commissioner Dharam Pal Gupta said S3WAAS (secure, scalable and sugam website as a service) provided facilities like GIGW compliance, generic search, responsive design, etc. He also informed that all the content had been published in Bi-Lingual format, English and Punjabi.
The Indian blind cricket team will take part in a bilateral series against Sri Lanka. The series will consist of three one-day matches and five T20 games and will start from 15 July in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The matches between July 15 and 17 July will be played at Burgher Recreation Club in Colombo.thses will be the ODI matches the India and Sri Lanka Blind Cricket teams.
Three T20 matches on 19 July, 20 July and 23 July are to be held at the Air Force Ground and two T20 matches on July 24 at Burgher Recreation Club.
India's premier design institute, the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad has reported a rise in the number of applications under Persons with Disability (PWD) category. This year, NID received a total of 114 applications as against 78 last year. While the institute has roped in BM Institute of Mental Health to scrutinize the applications, they are also in talks to identify discipline-wise disability, to encourage such students.
Moscow: While around 80,000 people savoured every moment of a hugely entertaining World Cup semi-final between Croatia and England at Luzhniki stadium here on Wednesday, Robert Holjevac listened to the gripping match at the stands because the 50-year-old Croatian has been completely blind since he was 15 years old. But lack of vision didn't prevent him from visualising the crucial moments of the game, which his beloved country won to reach their first final.
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