Deputy Commissioner R. Vishal said on Wednesday that a District Disability Rehabilitation Centre (DDRC) would be set up on the first floor of the Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) Bhavan here at an estimated Rs. 42 lakh.
There was excitement at Government Arts College when some visually challenged persons tried out a smart cane that helps them sense objects from 1.8 to three metres and obstructions that are waist high and above.
NEW DELHI: What if a blind person tapping his way down the street prods a ferocious dog with his white cane?
LUCKNOW: The 19-year-old visually impaired Paridhi Varma who made it to Indian Institute of Management- Lucknow despite only 10% vision has now all reasons to smile. Following TOI's report on Paridhi, this TOI correspondent received an e-mail from a Mumbai-based woman wanting to speak to Paridhi, to tell her there is no reason to lose hope.
CHENNAI: Proving that he was every bit the altruist that he was deemed to be, five-time World Champion and Grand Master Vishwanathan Anand on Sunday took time off his hectic schedule to launch the release of Algorithms, a documentary on visually-challenged Indian chess players, with an audio-described theatrical preview in the city.
The Centre on Thursday said over 14,000 vacancies have been identified for persons with disabilities (PwDs) in the government sector and a special recruitment drive would be launched for filling up the vacancies by February next year.
Chandigarh has 8,581 disabled persons, with the maximum (4,289) being orthopaedically handicapped (OH) and the least (98) suffering from autism, according to a report released by the Regional Institute of Mentally Handicapped on Thursday. Dr B S Chavan, Joint Director, RIMH, claims that no other Union Territory in the country has 100 per cent coverage of disabled people. Chandigarh is the first city to have covered all disabled persons.
A teacher spat upon by a student in the middle of the class, may be a horrendous scene to visualise, but it is a familiar scene in ‘special’ schools. Here the children hit, smack, kick, vomit, shout and boss their teachers anytime without warning.
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