The Bombay High Court Wednesday directed an expert committee set up by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to look into the issue of quantification of learning disability (LD) in terms of percentage. The committee has been set up to look into the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014. The Bill will replace the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995.
How many times have you aided a blind or visually impaired person to cross the street or read a sign or written directions or identify a person or thing?
VELLORE: The Tamil Nadu Braille Chess Association (Association) has urged the State government to allot visually challenged persons who excel in sport, including Chess, government jobs on the sports quota.
India has no shortage of talent and this is proven time and again! A video of a blind girl from Ranchi has put social media in meltdown.
KOCHI: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday upheld a Single Bench order directing the Kannur University to consider Prasanna Kumary, a visually impaired woman, for appointment as Lecturer in Law.
Blind users can now order an on-demand ride by speaking to their smartphone, rather than having to rely on touch technology.
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Tuesday stressed taking concrete measures to control the diseases causing visual impairment.
AHMEDABAD: Such was the apathy of the state government towards the visually impaired that, when the high court ruled in favour of 11 blind candidates, asking the education department to provide jobs to them in November 2012, in February 2013, the government brought out a notification restricting the appointment. The division bench of justice Jayant Patel and justice Z K Saiyed on June 12, 2013 had taken a serious note of this notification.
KOZHIKODE:The Kerala State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed the Lottery Department to issue tickets in different colours and style every week.
SHRC member K Mohan Kumar, who considered the petition filed by lottery agent K R Harikumar, a blind person hailing from Kannur, said that the move is intended to help the visually challenged lottery vendors.
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