He is a people- friendly administrator, a fiction writer, an organizer and a Good Samaritan. Meet this multi-facet physically disabled OAS officer Dr Biraja Prasad Routray (42), who is now officiating as the Deputy Collector in the Kendrapada Collectorate.
BENGALURU: A visually-impaired dance troupe from Shree Ramana Maharishi Academy for the Blind, led by Dharmaraju, performed at the International Performing Art Festival recently.
Dharmaraju has been training students at the academy from 2009, since he completed his studies, with the touch-and-feel method and a lot of patience.
The team of upcoming action film “Waarrior Savitri” provided self-defence tips and training to young blind girls on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
‘’Hold your heads up!’’ That’s the message Tiffany Brar has to give women on this International Women’s Day. When everyone sees the world, Tiffany ‘feels’ the world, and she makes others like her feel it too.
HYDERABAD: Lack of awareness among people is leading to rise in glaucoma cases at an alarming rate, eye specialists at LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) said.
CHENNAI: If you need another reason for not consuming tobacco in any form, here is one: a study by a reputed eye hospital in Chennai has found that chewing tobacco regularly could cause partial blindness.
On Saturday, over 500 people with disability once again proved that they are no different from able-bodied sportsmen at the 15th State-level Annual Sports for Disabled organised by Tamil Nadu Differently Abled Federation Charitable Trust (TNDAFC) and Sri Bhagyalakshmi Travel Services.
Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled, a Ballari-based non-profit organisation, will organise a job fair for physically challenged people at the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur, on Saturday. Addressing a media conference here on Monday, Ashok Kumar S., regional manager of the trust, said that around 30 employers, including a couple of major companies, were expected to participate in the event.
Her dependency on a walking cane does not stop 45-year-old Prerna (name changed) from commuting nearly 18 km to her workplace every day. The one-way journey from Sadarahalli to Malleswaram takes this government employee close to two hours, and involves changing three buses.
Last year, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi said persons with disabilities would be referred to asdivyang , he probably hadn’t expected the confusion it would throw budget-planners into, or the insecurity this definition would introduce among the recipients of such welfare benefits.
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