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Karnataka transport department website is now disabled-friendly

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

BENGALURU: The Transport Separtment has recently launched its redesigned website (www.transport.karnataka.gov.in) and e-payment system. The website also has special features for the visually challenged and colour blind people.

Transport minister R Ramalinga Reddy said users can increase or decrease the font size of the content, which is also visible in standard contrast and high contrast which is very helpful to colour blind people.

Specially-challenged workers protest non-disbursal of wheelchairs by govt

Fri, 10/07/2016 - 11:04 -- geeta.nair

Demanding filling of backlog of over 5,000 posts, employment according to capability and enhancement of pension, hundreds of physically-disabled persons, mostly Dalits, are sitting on a protest for more than past four months in Mansa.

Protesters said a panel meeting with Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal was held on June 18 where some of their demands were met on paper only as they turned to be ‘false promises’.

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

Tue, 10/04/2016 - 10:34 -- geeta.nair

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.
 

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

Tue, 10/04/2016 - 10:34 -- geeta.nair

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.
 

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

Tue, 10/04/2016 - 10:32 -- geeta.nair

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

Mon, 10/03/2016 - 10:44 -- geeta.nair

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.

This shopkeeper has blind trust in customers

Thu, 09/29/2016 - 10:29 -- geeta.nair

 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!'

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