Helping the disabled: AIOU opens e-learning centre for visually impaired
ISLAMABAD: An e-learning accessibility centre for visually-impaired students has started functioning at the national library of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU).
ISLAMABAD: An e-learning accessibility centre for visually-impaired students has started functioning at the national library of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU).
For hundreds of visually impaired and physically challenged students at Panjab University (PU), the authorities have decided to launch a helpline to help them in filling their examination and fee submission forms. The helpline will start from next week.
HYDERABAD:Visually-challenged people from various parts of the country, who gathered at a national conference on Right to Education Act (RTE) here on Sunday, made a unanimous demand for equal opportunities for blind students in education.
Actor Ram Charan has organized a special screening of his latest Telugu outing “Bruce Lee: The Fighter” for nearly 400 visually challenged kids of a private school here. Some part of the show’s proceeds will be donated to the school. “Their love for cinema amazed me when I recently met them. Some of the kids delivered some dialogues from Telugu films to keep me entertained. I was so moved by their passion for cinema that I decided to hold a special screening of my film,” Ram told IANS.
Candidates with over 40 per cent visual impairment who sit for the K-TET and SET examinations will get a 10 per cent relaxation in marks, an order issued by the State government says.
JAMMU: A visually-challenged man has cracked the National Eligibility Test (NET) and is set to become an Assistant Professor in music.
Rahul Kumar, an inmate of the residential school for blind at Roop Nagar, has qualified the NET in music. Kumar has been a recipient of 'President's Gold Medal' in BA and MA music.
Aggrieved over “lack of action” by Delhi government on issues affecting people with disability, hundreds of disabled people plan to march towards the secretariat on October 6 to seek a meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and put forward their demands. Muralidharan, convenor of the Delhi Viklang Adhikar Manch shared the plans for the march, which will be held under the leadership of 16 organisations, at a press conference Wednesday.
PUNE: "Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen," said Pablo Picasso.
CHENNAI: In a rare instance that gives a glimpse into the thoughts of former President of India, the late APJ Abdul Kalam, a book was launched in Braille format. Titled Kalam – Naam Ariya Pakkangal is a set of essays about Kalam written by people who knew him well, and by those who had interacted with him.
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