BHUBANESWAR: With the Centre contemplating to broaden the criteria for persons with disabilities (PWDs), Odisha Government is likely to start a fresh enumeration of PWDs within a few months. The Centre is currently reviewing the proposal to include 22 additional disabilities apart from the existing eight conditions.
The government is set to change a four-decade-old definition of blindness to bring it in line with the WHO criteria and ensure the Indian data on blindness meets the global estimates.
Innovators from India have created a new device that has yet again changed what we can or cannot do without seeing.
Plastic sliding calipers known as Squirrel Devices, developed by MIT grad students, make geometry's continuous shapes and lengths measurable for blind and limited-vision students, who can read measurements in Braille.
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Visually impaired employees of different government departments staged a protest demonstration on Thursday at Musharraf Chowk over nonpayment of their salaries for the last four months.
A high school student in Arunachal Pradesh has invented a unique pair of goggles that uses ultrasound and infrared sensors to help the visually impaired detect obstacles on their path. On Friday, the State government pledged financial support for him to develop the gadget.
Anang Tadar, a Class XI student of New Galaxy Academy, Nirjuli, was recently awarded the Dinanath Pandey Smart Idea Innovation Award for inventing a gadget called Goggle for Blind (G4B).
The International Braille Chess Association (IBCA) Asian Chess Championship for the Visually Challenged-2017 was inaugurated here on Wednesday. The first round games will begin on Thursday as teams from Yemen and the Philippines are to yet arrive, while teams from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are already here. The championship, hosted by Manipal University, is being organised by the All India Chess Federation for the Blind (AICFB) under the aegis of IBCA and All India Chess Federation.
For visually impaired people it is not easy to find out who and what is around them. A walking stick is the only support which can boost their morale and help them escape all the hurdles.
According to the WHO’s report, 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide in which 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision. 82 per cent people living with blindness are aged 50 and above.
KOCHI: More than 800 patients got their vision back in 2016-17 after undergoing cataract surgery under Project Drishti, the flagship CSR initiative of Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited (BFIL).Project Drishti was implemented in association with Canada-based NGO OEU and Little Flower Hospital and Research Centre, Angamaly. “The organisers are planning to expand it to other districts by providing free cataract treatment to the poor,” stated an official release.
Scientists have developed a new eye implant, using arrays of silicon nanowires that sense light and electrically stimulate the retina, which may help restore vision in millions of people worldwide.
The advance brings us a step closer to restoring the ability of neurons in the retina to respond to light.
The researchers from University of California San Diego and US-based startup Nanovision Biosciences showed response to light in a rat retina interfacing with a prototype of the device in vitro.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state government has decided to introduce a comprehensive package for the functioning of blind schools - government and aided - in the state.
The Cabinet meeting on Wednesday took the decision to bring in a package for fixing norms for such schools.
The package will deal with all aspects related to the functioning of blind schools in the state including setting standards, finalising its norms, ensuring infrastructure facilities, staff pattern and appointments. However, there is no time set for implementing the package.
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