IIT-Delhi will hold an event titled ‘Open House’ on Saturday to show innovative projects such as nanomaterial based water purification device, badminton playing robots and a bus identification system for visually impaired persons. 

The Agona West Municipal Branch of the Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD) has appealed to the Government to increase the two per cent of the District Assemblies Common Fund, allocated to Persons With Disabilities, to three per cent.

The Odisha Government seems to have no concern towards betterment of around 13 lakh disabled people in the State as it is reportedly mulling to fill up the vacant post of the Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), which is lying vacant for around a week now, by rehabilitating a political person instead of an expert in the field.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday distributed free laptop computers to visually impaired students at a function organised in his home office Krishna in Bengaluru. This move by the government is aimed at encouraging visually impaired students to pursue higher education and making them self-sufficient. With this, the government has fulfilled its promise of distributing laptops to 1,000 students from Class 10 and above as announced in the budget. 

We seldom spare a thought for the simplest of things that could be within our reach but remain out of our mind.

Strongly condemning “an improper and insensitive” affidavit filed by the then School Education Secretary in connection with the filling up of Lecturer vacancies by the visually challenged, the Madras High Court said the official should be present in the court on April 1.