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IIT-Kharagpur tech push to help visually impaired kids read Bangla classics

Wed, 11/02/2016 - 15:01 -- geeta.nair

KOLKATA: Children with blindness will soon be able to savour classics of Bengali literature, thanks to a combined effort of three top institutes of higher education: IIT-Kharagpur, Jadavpur University (JU) and Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). The computer science and technology department of IIT-Kgp has devised a software that is helping render some of these evergreen texts into braille, the first time this is being done with an Indian language.

e-toilets come up at Braille Bhawan

Wed, 11/02/2016 - 10:50 -- geeta.nair

Gurvinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, October 31

The district administration has come up with electronic toilets at Braille Bhawan to help the visually impaired and physically challenged people.

These toilets are equipped with sensors that flush water automatically and the visually-impaired won’t have to grope for any button or knob for using these toilets now.

Compassion, the language that differently-abled understands

Wed, 10/26/2016 - 10:30 -- geeta.nair

CHENNAI: “Compassion and kindness are languages that the deaf can hear and the blind can see and the mentally ill can understand,” said Dr Sarada Menon, founder of Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), as she received ‘Mother Teresa Award’ from Indian Development Foundation (IDF, formerly Indian Leprosy Foundation) on Tuesday.

Speaking at the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Dr Menon said the country has come a long way when it comes to mental health 

Now, taxis to ferry disabled people to polling booths

Mon, 10/24/2016 - 10:48 -- geeta.nair

Gurvinder Singh                                                                                                                            Tribune News Service                                                                                                                        Ludhiana, October 22

To ensure that those who cannot come to cast their vote on their own during the upcoming Assembly elections aren’t left out, the district administration is going to reach out to them at their doorstep to help them exercise their adult franchise.

Pune: Visually challenged cricketers put their best foot forward

Thu, 10/20/2016 - 10:33 -- geeta.nair

Anyone who has a little knowledge about cricket for the visually challenged would know that for players of the B1 category (those who are completely blind), scoring every single run is a big achievement as compared to the players of B2 and B3 categories (those who can see up to three metres and six metres respectively). No wonder every run scored by the players of B1 category is doubled when it’s counted for the team.

Audio library promised for the visually challenged

Wed, 10/19/2016 - 10:47 -- geeta.nair

In an endeavour to build awareness that the visually challenged are very much part of the mainstream society, around 50 persons, including students of the Government School for the Blind here, staged a nearly one-km rally on Tuesday.

The rally was taken out to the Government College here as part of the World White Cane Safety day that fell on October 15.

Steps to be taken

The programme was organised by the district unit of the Kerala Federation of the Blind in association with the with the National Service Scheme (NSS) at the Government College.

Now, copies of Bhai Gurdas ‘Vaars’ available in Braille

Tue, 10/18/2016 - 10:43 -- geeta.nair

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, October 17

He could have been like any other ‘raagi’ after his retirement in 1998 from the Golden Temple, where he worked for 30 years. But, Bhai Gurmej Singh had a wish. Being visually impaired, he wanted many like him to read the holy Sikh scriptures.

He transliterated Guru Granth Sahib into Braille in 2012. Four year later, he transliterated ‘Vaars’, a kind of Punjabi poetry, of Bhai Gurdas into Braille.

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