The Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment Thawar Singh Gehlot and Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis launched the ‘Accessible India’ Campaign for Persons with Disabilities on 24th September 2015. The campaign promises to target three verticals – Built up environment, transportation ecosystem and the information and communication ecosystem. The launch of this campaign itself is path breaking, as political parties and governments in the country have neglected the disabled.
It was an exhilarating moment for the over 300 odd students, professionals – all visually impaired – who heard and understood each and every moment on an onscreen movie for the first time at the Mehr Chand Polytechnic College, Jalandhar. It was also the first time an audio film was screened in Punjab.
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.
NEW DELHI: Disabled rights activist Javed Abidi was forced to get off his wheelchair at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Wednesday, when despite his protests, the CISF gave him the option of either complying with their rules or missing his flight.
By July 2016, the Government plans to make 75 railway stations and all 21 international airports across India disabled-friendly, as part of its ‘Accessible India’ campaign.
Ranchi will play host to the fourth and concluding one-day international match of Oxigen Cup-2015, the bilateral series between specially-abled cricket teams of India and Sri Lanka. The match will be played on Friday at JSCA International Stadium Complex.
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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