Chandigarh, April 25

The Election Commission in collaboration with Dev Samaj College for Women, Sector 45-D, organised a programme to spread awareness among persons with disabilities (PwDs) on voting. More than 100 students and faculty members attended the programme on the college campus.

The Low Vision Clinic will help a special group of patients like the socially  blind and other patients having very low vision due to glaucoma, age-related  macular degeneration, diabetes, retinal diseases, and other blinding diseases,  who do not benefit from surgery or spectacle correction, according to a press  release.

New Delhi: The implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 is still at a “dismal stage”, the Supreme Court said on Monday while expressing displeasure over the failure of some states in framing the requisite rules.
A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice J B Pardiwala was hearing a plea seeking constitution of district-level committees to enforce the Act.
“Despite the lapse….the implementation of the Act is still at a dismal stage. Many states have not framed even the rules under the Act,” the bench said.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : A large number of visually impaired voters in Kerala are hoping to exercise their franchise independently this year, leveraging ballot papers in braille and braille-enabled electronic voting machines (EVMs).

Though the Election Commission had initiated the provision during the 2016 assembly election, most visually impaired voters continued to rely on assistance. Over time, however, there has been an increasing number of visually impaired voters who seek to vote autonomously, according to Kerala Federation of the Blind (KFB).