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
Imagine a life without sight. Scary and difficult isn't it? Eyes are such an important organ of the human body. They allow us to see the beauty of this wonderful world. Yet, we pay so little attention to our eyes. If we have fever or an upset stomach we immediately rush to a doctor.
15 million people in India are blind, which is 50% of world’s blind population
Diabetes is a fairly common disease that interferes with the body’s ability to use and store sugar. It can occur during childhood but usually the problem begins later in life. Diabetes is a multi-system disease which affects the eyes and kidneys commonly. Diabetes can cause many health problems, especially when it is severe and uncontrollable.
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KOCHI: As part of World Sight Day, Giridhar Eye Institute, Kadavanthra will conduct a one month long awareness and screening programme, Windows’15 to draw to the causes of avoidable blindness and vision impairment and means of eradicating them.
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.
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