HYDERABAD: As part of its community services banking activities, the State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) has sponsored two days inter-school competitions for visually challenged students from various districts of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
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.
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Together they walk through the busy station at Vangani, weaving their way cautiously through the crowds. A beep from the metal detector tells them they have reached the platform. Santoshi and her eight-year-old son Akash join a group of visually impaired people that’s waiting for the train to Mumbai, an hour-and-a-half hour ride away.
Young Voices Delhi is a group of young disabled students working to empower people with disabilities.
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.
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NEW DELHI: The government today announced to increase expenditure on the empowerment and welfare of Persons with Disabilities (PwD) from the present 4.31 crore to 45 crore per year in the coming two years.
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BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to pay cash instead of providing cheap rice to physically challenged persons.
Millions of differently-abled Indians are technically qualified with the necessary skills to be employable.
An Altoona woman who has been legally blind since birth can now see for the first time, thanks to a new high-tech tool. And 45-year-old Mindi McDonald is the first person in Iowa to try it.
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.
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