Three visually-impaired women share their stories about hard-word, sacrifices and diligence that makes them true supermoms

Almost 24 years after a plot was sanctioned to the Poona Blind Men’s Association (PBMA) for a primary health centre, as well as to build a residential facility for the visually impaired, a notice has been issued by the district collectorate to the PBMA after a group representing the visually impaired alleged that there was violation of land use. The case before the Pune District collector will be heard on May 11.

The Odisha Disabled Peoples’ Network, a forum fighting for the cause of physically-challenged people, on Tuesday opposed the State Government’s decision to bring transgender and widow under the newly constituted Department of Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability. “It is a welcome step that the Government has considered our demand and constituted an exclusive department.

The initiative is in line with World Health Organisation’s Global Initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness, “Vision 2020: The Right to Sight”.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:  A young man, by riding a two-wheeler without using his hands a few months ago, turned a few heads on the roads of Anad. What the onlookers might have mistaken as foolhardy heroics, was actually a test run for the prototype of ‘V4D’, a two-wheeler designed for people with limb disabilities.