This year, 12 visually impaired students appeared for the West Bengal Class 12 board examination. All of them have successfully cleared the examination with Grade A and above.

In Short

• WBCHSE declared the West Bengal Class 12 Result 2024 on May 8
• 12 visually impaired students also appeared for the board examination
• Out of them, Rashida Khatun secured the top position with 416 marks out of 500

With the help of modern technology, even the visually impaired can now try their hand at sports of shooting. Germany has developed a device for the visually impaired. This device has been brought to India for the first time and given to the visually impaired in Pune. In shooting, the target is identified and aimed through binoculars. The same technique has been developed by these devices, one part of this device is in the rifle and the other part is on the headphones placed on the ear.

AI-based ‘Kala Chashma’ to assist visually impaired

UP students showcase innovative science models at CST UP innovation cell meet under the CST UP Engineering Project Grant Scheme 2023-24

Chandigarh, April 25

The Election Commission in collaboration with Dev Samaj College for Women, Sector 45-D, organised a programme to spread awareness among persons with disabilities (PwDs) on voting. More than 100 students and faculty members attended the programme on the college campus.

The Low Vision Clinic will help a special group of patients like the socially  blind and other patients having very low vision due to glaucoma, age-related  macular degeneration, diabetes, retinal diseases, and other blinding diseases,  who do not benefit from surgery or spectacle correction, according to a press  release.

New Delhi: The implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 is still at a “dismal stage”, the Supreme Court said on Monday while expressing displeasure over the failure of some states in framing the requisite rules.
A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala was hearing a plea seeking constitution of district-level committees to enforce the Act.
“Despite the lapse….the implementation of the Act is still at a dismal stage. Many states have not framed even the rules under the Act,” the bench said.