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.
In an interview with Pramila Komanduri, Elsie Monthei shares her journey about her growing years, her life as an artist and contribution as an advocate. We had earlier published the first part of the interview- Early Years and this is the last part of the interview- Her life as an Artist and contribution as an advocate. Please find below the link to the first part of the interview.
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The State government’s proposal to launch mobile therapy units for the benefit of children with disability below six years of age has many takers.
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.
Chhattisgarh’s Social Welfare Minister Ramsheela Sahu walked blindfolded to a certain distance at the Jai Stambh Chowk in Raipur along with the blind children on the occasion of International White Cane Day observed in the State on Thursday.
On the occasion of White Cane Day on October 15, we have to address a serious issue today in India. There are over 16 million blind people and around 28 million visually impaired people in India. However only a few of them have been able to accessany help that they deserve from the authorities.
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.
Having grown up as a child in the mountains, forests and farmlands of Idaho, Elsie Monthei (pronounced Mont-hee) has a rugged independent spirit and a deep love for nature which is evident in her artwork. She has a passion for painting landscapes which hides the fact that she is legally blind from birth. Elsie says that she ‘traded Idaho potatoes for Iowa corn’ when she married her husband, Arlo Monthei, years ago and moved to his home in the state of Iowa.
WHO South-East Asia has 140 million visually impaired people. The Region has an estimated 12 million blind people, 8 million of them in India. More than 50% of all blindness is caused by cataract which accounts for 33% of visual impairment. Uncorrected refractive errors are responsible for 43% of the visual impairment in the Region.
Mobile thief arrested after visually impaired Ambernath resident trips him at Dadar railway station, holds him down in a vice-like grip until cops arrive; not the first time he's caught a swindler red-handed
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