Hyderabad [India], Sept.11 (ANI): The second World Congress of Optometry 2017 opened in Hyderabad today. For the next three days (11-13 September), the world's leading eye health experts will discuss and present new ideas, share research and knowledge from various facets of Optometry.

Telangana Health and Medical Minister C. Laxma Reddy, formally opened the conference at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre.

A Health Camp was organised at State Blind, Deaf and Dumb School at Harmu in Ranchi on Sunday by Jharkhand IAS Wives Association (JIASOWA) which was also attended by Chief Secretary Rajbala Verma. In her inaugural address, Verma said that those children did not sympathy from anyone, but they need concomitance and love from the people.

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Ludhiana, September 7

Ankit Kapoor, member of the Empowerment Association for the Blind, said the association had been struggling for the rights of visually impaired persons for a long time.

A lot of us tend to feel awkward around people who are blind, not knowing what to do or say that doesn't seem inappropriate. Well, the biggest secret to engaging well with a blind person is to treat them like everybody else. If we think of a blind person as anyone who likes to go out, watch a movie, grab a meal with friends, it becomes easier to associate and interact. Here are some easy tips to help you communicate better with someone who cannot see.

Uttar Pradesh Congress staged a dharna over atrocities on blind students of Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University and the cane charge after students tried to raise their demands.

Party MLC Deepak Singh, who sat on the dharna to protest administrative excesses on blind students in Lucknow on Wednesday, alleged that the Yogi government was violating all norms to harass students and even blind students were not being spared. 

Ludhiana, September 5

While teaching the visually impaired children for the last 17 years at the Vocational Rehabilitation and Training Centre (VRTC), Hambran Road, Maya (50) makes sure her lessons are interesting and replete with anecdotes and stories.

Despite being devoid of sense of sight, she goes out of her way to inspire the children she teaches.

Muskan provides intervention at various levels under one roof

Ahmed Piyarji (6), could not sit for 10 minutes at a stretch and had difficulty seeing things at a distance. Last year, he was diagnosed with low vision and hearing impairment along with cerebral palsy

After sustained special education, speech therapy, physiotherapy, occupational and vision therapy, he can sit up and perform daily activities like eating and drinking with limited assistance. He is also doing well in areas like fine motor and gross motor skill development, socialisation and communication.