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Blind persons cannot identify currency notes : NAB tells Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to file reply within four weeks in response to a public interest litigation (PIL) highlighting the difficulty faced by blind persons in identifying currency notes and coins.

A division bench headed by Chief Justice Manjula Chellur, while hearing a petition filed by National Association for the Blind (NAB), asked the central bank to submit its response within a month and allowed the petitioner to file a rejoinder within two weeks of RBI filing its reply.

City railway station to become visually-impaired friendly soon

BENGALURU: Nearly a year after the Mysuru railway station became the first in the country to put in place facilities for the visually impaired, the Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna railway station in Bengaluru is all set to emulate it.

The same non-governmental organisation that made it possible in Mysuru will be implementing it in the City too.

Inclusive education for spl students sought

BHUBANESWAR: Differently-abled students from across the State underlined the need for inclusive education in Government schools at ‘Prativa O Manthan’, a workshop organised by Swabhimaan here on Thursday.

Visually-impaired Sumaiya struggling to continue study

This shopkeeper has blind trust in customers

Vijay Shekar at his shop

CHENNAI: Listening to the radio, he was standing behind the counter as we stepped into his shop at LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration). With just a ‘Hi' from an old student who accompanied us, this visually challenged shop owner broke into a wide smile. Ask any student from LIBA where they get their stationery from and they all say, ‘Vijay anna!'

Visually impaired made aware of accessible reading, writing solutions

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 25

The National Association for the Blind (NAB) conducted a seminar on accessible reading and writing solutions in association with the Saksham Foundation at Aasha Kiran, a vocational training centre for differently abled, in Sector 46-D today.

Dipendra Manocha, chairman of Saksham Foundation and Daisy Forum of India (DFI), who is himself visually challenged, was the main speaker on the occasion.

How can you avoid awkward behavioral mistakes when in the company of a blind person?

This article has been taken from:
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The Italian Union of Blind People published an ad hoc handbook that gives some useful advice on this topic.

For 116 yrs, this school in Dadar has been home to the visually impaired

Natasha Trivedi Mumbai, September 24 Nestled in a lane in crowded Dadar is the 116-year-old home of close to 170 visually impaired girls from all over the country. A school that was started originally as a relief shelter for boys and girls who had been blinded in the devastating famine in Solapur in the 1880s, the Kamla Mehta School For The Blind now continues to house, and provides education to visually impaired girls right from pre-primary to Class VII.

ODISHA HAS 12,44,402 DIFFERENTLY-ABLED PERSONS

There were 12,44,402 differently-abled persons in Odisha as per the Census 2011, informed Social Security and Persons with Disabilities Minister Usha Devi in the State Assembly on Wednesday.

The Minister informed this in response to a question of BJP MLA Golak Bihari Nayak. The number include 2,63,799 vision-impaired, 68,517 dumb, 2,37,858 deaf, 2,59,899 physically-handicapped, 72,399 mentally ill and 1,72,881 of other category.

The State Government has introduced many schemes for their development and to bring them to the mainstream of the society, said the Minister.

Mumbai: To be heard, visually impaired block road outside Mantralaya

Traffic outside the state secretariat, Mantralaya, remained blocked for almost half-an-hour Tuesday afternoon when a group of specially challenged protesters took to the streets protesting government apathy.

Members of the National Federation of Visually Impaired Persons stood on the road outside the main gate at Mantralaya, raising slogans against Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his government. Their main grouse was that government benefits they were eligible for were being denied owing to corruption and government apathy.