NEW DELHI: The government today announced to increase expenditure on the empowerment and welfare of Persons with Disabilities (PwD) from the present 4.31 crore to 45 crore per year in the coming two years.
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to pay cash instead of providing cheap rice to physically challenged persons.
Millions of differently-abled Indians are technically qualified with the necessary skills to be employable.
An Altoona woman who has been legally blind since birth can now see for the first time, thanks to a new high-tech tool. And 45-year-old Mindi McDonald is the first person in Iowa to try it.
Extending a humane gesture, a few restoratives and organisations have come forward to help underprivileged children and visually impaired artists by offering financial aid through a play. A popular comic play ‘Goudara Gaddala’ would be staged on Saturday at Rangamandir, and fifty per cent of the earning would be given to poor children and visually impaired children’s welfare.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will confer national award to Hoshangabad Collector Sanket Bhondve for excellent works for rehabilitation and upliftment of disabled persons. The award will be conferred in New Delhi on December 3.
The visually impaired girls who have been selected for a singing competition to be organised by Doordarshan titled 'Meri Aawaz Suno' on Monday called on Chief Minister Raman Singh at his residence here.
They can’t define light but that is not a deterrent for them to adding dazzle to others’ lives every Diwali.
Bhubaneswar: Laxmi Barik is a 15-year-old visually impaired girl. But that has not deterred her from playing cricket. She, along with 43 other visually challenged girls, are busy practising ahead of the first ever blind women's cricket tournament of the state to begin here from Friday.
For the first time, more than 50 visually challenged students studying in SSLC and above were given talking laptops in Mysuru. The laptops have in-built audio keyboards that are incorporated with special software to make them user-friendly.
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