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Visually Impaired Entrepreneur Shri Dinesh Pandya's Pursuit Of Extending Welfare To The Society

Successfully established Entrepreneur Dinesh Pandya has marked his footprint in people's hearts and the world not merely by his business and entrepreneurship skills but because of his adopted kindness as his language.

STRONG and IMPACTFUL are the perfect words to describe Mr. Dinesh Pandya. Despite being a help-seeker as visually impaired, he decided to be a Giver. He proved that a person's strong willpower is enough to face any hurdles, challenges and obstacles.

High Court sets up panel to aid visually challenged

The Delhi High Court has formed a high-power committee under the chairmanship of an IIT Delhi professor to look into the issues concerning accessibility of financial services to visually challenged persons.

A Bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad granted three months to the committee to submit its status report.

Vellore Corporation to stick to one shop for persons with disabilities policy

Amid criticism, the Vellore Corporation will stick to its original plan of alloting one shop each for persons with disabilities, trangenders, Aavin and Tantea at the recently opened bus terminus in Vellore.

Visually-impaired Natasha Morales Santos never lost sight of her goals

MAMALLAPURAM: As one walks down the playing hall No. 2 at the ongoing 44th Chess Olympiad here, one can’t miss Natasha Morales Santos --- Puerto Rico’s top-rated women’s player. At first glance, the 24- year old looks like any other player. But once Natasha settles down to play --- you will find she makes her moves on a braille chess board.

Kerala: Visually-challenged girl tops Class 12 Exam in disabled category

Hannah Alice Simon, a girl from Kochi district of Kerala has secured first rank in class 12th Board examinations in the disabled category. She is a motivational speaker, a singer, and a YouTuber. Despite her underlying condition of ‘Microphthalmia’, Hannah scored 496 out of 500 in CBSE class 12 Exam. While talking to ANI, Hannah Alice Simon said, “My parents made this choice for me when you study in a special school for 12 years you are cut off from the rest of the world.

Blind persons get white canes in K’pada

The members of Shri Jagannath Charitable Trust of Kendrapada led by its president Daman Kumar Mohanty donated white cane (locally called Ashabadi) to some visually-impaired persons of the district who were roaming in the streets, for their daily uses.

New teachers must have knowledge of Braille

BEd and DElEd students will be compulsorily given information about initial knowledge of Braille and Sign Language.

In this way, at least 10 thousand teachers will be trained in elementary knowledge in the entire state. In the programme organized at ICF Ashram Bhopal, Director of State Education Center Dhanraju S said that teachers from all the districts of the state and mobile resource consultants were addressing the training session of Braille script and sign language.

Six Pune women selected to play in Blind Football Asian Championship

PUNE: A team of 10 visually impaired women aged between 18 and 25 years from Mai Balbhavan, an NGO at Dehu Road, won a gold medal at the women’s national blind Football Federation.
Six team members have been selected .. in the national team and will represent the country in the Blind Football Asian Championships to be hosted in Kochi, Kerala from November 9-20 this year.

Ministry extends consultation period for draft disability policy again

The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry on Thursday extended the time for feedback on its draft national policy on disability from Friday (July 15) to August 31, while activists continued to raise demands for translations into sign language and regional languages.
This was the second extension given by the Ministry’s Department of Empowerment of Persons of Disabilities (DEPwD), after a one-week extension was given from July 9 to Friday (July 15).

K'pada blind cycle mechanic performs host of jobs

Though he is a disabled person, he is not dependant on others to eke out his living. He has set an example for hundreds of his ilk.

Meet visually-impaired but multi-faceted Dillip Baral, a resident of Suryapur under Bagada GP of Kendrapada block. He ekes out his living by opening a cycle repairing shop in his locality. Besides this, he has a reputation of being a good stove repairer and electronics goods mechanic. He is a popular singer in the locality too.