For improvement of infrastructure

The District Central Library in the city will soon get funding under the National Mission on Libraries, an initiative of the Union government, for improving infrastructure.

Disclosing this here on Sunday, A.P.Sivakumar, District Library Officer, said Rs. 70 lakh had been sanctioned under the programme. Of the total funding, 75% would be contributed by the Centre and the rest by the State government.

If you have a disability, what’s the hardest thing about browsing the web?” The answers to Safia Abdalla’s tweet are truly eye-opening and shows us what web accessibility should really be about.
 

In this article I’ll summarize and group the main topics that people bring up in the thread.

But do click on the tweet and read through all the answers. It’s an awesome read for anyone interested in making the web a better place for all. And, in my opinion, a far better place to learn about accessibility than reading any checklist or standard.

The Central Railway plans to start a new helpline system to redress the grievances of the handicapped passengers and cancer patients. Following complaints from handicapped passengers that they were not getting adequate help when they called the helpline number 9004411111, the CR is all set to implement a new system where passengers just need to send an SMS on this number, which will then be forwarded to the concerned department.

New Delhi, July 4
The central government on Tuesday refuted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's charge of GST rates being "insensitive" to the disabled, saying a discounted 5 per cent levy will bring down prices of assistive devices for physically-challenged and promote domestic manufacturing.
From Braille writers and Braille paper to wheelchairs, talking books, Assistive Listening Devices (ALD) and implants for the severely physically-challenged, as many as 22 items for them will attract a Goods and Services Tax (GST) of 5 per cent.