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Proteas squad hosts coaching clinic for visually impaired cricketers in Lanka

Johannesburg: Members of the South Africa squad took time out to host a coaching clinic for visually impaired cricketers in Colombo on Tuesday, ahead of their second Test against Sri Lanka, which is underway at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground.

The clinic is part of the `Seeing is Believing` campaign, which aims to raise funds for Sri Lanka`s visually impaired cricket team heading to the Cricket World Cup to be held in South Africa in November.

Hyderabad firm develops 'smart shoes' for visually impaired and athletes

Secunderabad (Andhra Pradesh) based Ducere Technologies has launched the haptic footwear under their wearable technology brand Lechal (meaning "take me there" in Hindi) that helps the visually impaired navigate from one place to another.

Quota for disabled; HC asks Centre to modify OM on vacancies

The Delhi High Court has asked the Centre to modify its 2013 office memorandum after considering the representation of NGO National Federation of Blind on computation of seats to be reserved for disabled persons in four category posts in government departments.

Check mates

Not many of us may be aware, but there is a chess-community of visually impaired youngsters in India. Capturing this in a black and white documentary are UK-based documentary filmmaker Ian Mcdonald and Indian producer Geetha J. who present Algorithms in collaboration with Vikalp at Everest Talkies on July 24 at 7 p.m.

Three-year-old kid brutally beaten by tutor

A private tutor has been caught on tape brutally beating a three-year-old kid in Kolkata.
The police is on the lookout for the middle-aged woman home tutor who is accused of thrashing the kid.
The incident came to light this morning after a CCTV footage showed the tutor mercilessly beating the kid in a Lake Town home.
"We have received a complaint and are on a lookout for her," officer in charge of Lake Town police station Ashok Sen said.
According to the complaint lodged by the kid's family, the tutor was given appointment just a few daysback.

Visually impaired run out of scribes

Visually impaired students appearing for tests like the computer certificate, bank probationary officers exam, teacher eligibility test (TET) or clerical tests are facing a major shortage of scribes.

While the need for scribes ranges from between 30 to 300 a month, unfortunately there are not many available. As the eligibility criteria is stringent, most students find it difficult to find a scribe.

Disabled students asked to pay admission fees

A number of differently abled students have alleged that they had to pay more than Rs 1,000 for admission to colleges, despite the state government's guidelines to exempt tuition and other related fees for physically handicapped students.

What ails education of visually impaired?

Vikas Kumar Yadav, a student of BA (Hons) Hindi IInd year at Hindu College feels helpless when making rounds to the Delhi University library.

School for blind had no state recognition

More insanity: Blind students brutally caned by school teacher in AP

Even as the nation writhes in agony over the Bangalore school rape incident, another shocking case of brutality against children has to come light, this time from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
A teacher of a residential school for visually impaired children in the city was caught on camera brutally canning young children. The teacher is also blind.