Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Monday shot off a letter to Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman demanding reduction in customs duty on import of special equipment for visually-impaired students, after a student from Bengaluru’s Mount Carmel College — which he visited last week — sought his intervention.
More than 1,758 sanctioned posts for people with disabilities in Delhi government, Municipal Corporation and other State departments are lying vacant.
KOCHI: Prasanna Kumari, a 47-year-old visually impaired lawyer, has filed a petition before the Kerala High Court seeking to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Vice-chancellor and Registrar of the Kannur University for not complying with a court order. The court had directed the Kannur University to treat Prasanna Kumari as one who is eligible for the post of lecturer in Law. The court had also invalidated an appointment made by her to the post.
Extending a humane gesture, a few restoratives and organisations have come forward to help underprivileged children and visually impaired artists by offering financial aid through a play. A popular comic play ‘Goudara Gaddala’ would be staged on Saturday at Rangamandir, and fifty per cent of the earning would be given to poor children and visually impaired children’s welfare.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will confer national award to Hoshangabad Collector Sanket Bhondve for excellent works for rehabilitation and upliftment of disabled persons. The award will be conferred in New Delhi on December 3.
The visually impaired girls who have been selected for a singing competition to be organised by Doordarshan titled 'Meri Aawaz Suno' on Monday called on Chief Minister Raman Singh at his residence here.
For the first time, more than 50 visually challenged students studying in SSLC and above were given talking laptops in Mysuru. The laptops have in-built audio keyboards that are incorporated with special software to make them user-friendly.
CHENNAI: When Ashok Kumar scored 1,076 in his Class 12 board exams and topped his school, it was not just his parents and teachers who felt elated but he also made another person proud, someone who had been toiling away with him in the examination centre, equally anxious to finish the test papers. It was his 63-year-old scribe T R Narayanan.
KOZHIKODE: Utilising their technological and scientific skills, the students of National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NITC), are paving a path of self-reliance for the less affluent who cannot explore the world on their own.
The students have developed the working model of a smart ‘Blind man’s stick’ to guide the visually impaired on the obstacles along their path.
ISLAMABAD: An e-learning accessibility centre for visually-impaired students has started functioning at the national library of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU).
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