Twenty-one-year-old V. Dinesh, a visually impaired student studying B.Ed. (Tamil) in the Government College of Education, Vellore, has been selected for the All India Judo Tournament for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb being held in Vasco da Gama in Goa from March 19 to 22.
White cane, the mobility aid used by the visually challenged, has got a smart makeover, thanks to the research conducted by IIT, Delhi. The ‘smart white cane’, as it is called, incorporates a small electronic device mounted on the cane. The detachable device, with an inbuilt rechargeable battery, can detect objects three metres away and provide signals to the person using it.
A South Delhi restaurant, which allegedly denied entry to a disability rights activist on Holi (March 6), was found to have been “insensitive” towards him as per a magisterial inquiry ordered by the Delhi Government.
Odisha Disabled Peoples’ Network coordinator Sanyas Behera has reiterated that the State Government must appoint a disabled person as the State Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). “The Selection Committee headed by Women and Child Development Minister Usha Devi will sit tomorrow to select the new Commissioner of the State Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).
In Zimbabwe digital tools will help learning of the visually impaired students: thanks to a project of University of Zimbabwe Library in cooperation with European non-for-profit organization EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries). The project was really appreciated by the users and the University community, and also it is going to be disseminated in all Zimbabwe and other African countries.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan blessed 51 newly wed disabled couples at a function for mass marriage of disabled persons at Hoshangabad on Wednesday. He announced that assistance under CM’s disabled persons’ marriage scheme will be increased from `25,000 to `50,000. He said that the increased amount will also be given to couples who tied nuptial knots at today’s function.
Bhimabhoi Samarthya Sibir, a camp for differently-abled persons, was organised at Khariar in the premises of the Khariar Panchayat Samit of Nuapada district. Over 400 differently-abled persons with various physical and mental problems attended the camp for checkup and to get disability certificates from the district administration.
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The South Zone Cricket Tournament for the Visually Challenged will be organised here from March 29. The Twenty20 cricket tourney was being organised by the Cricket Association for the Blind in Andhra Pradesh affiliated to the World Blind Cricket (WBC) in association with the Andhra Cricket Association (ACA) and Men and the Women District Cricket Association.
Musunuri Kalyani did not realise at the age of 12, when she first picked up a tatting shuttle, that one day she would rely on this tiny tool for livelihood.
Now 54, she not only tats for relaxation, but also for making a living of it.
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Jobs as well as all basic facilities will be provided to the blind persons, said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and National Assembly Memeber (MNA) Hamza Shahbaz Shairf while talking to a representative delegation of visually impaired persons at Model Town office on Wednesday.
The issues pertaining to the visually impaired persons must be resolved immediately and utmost care should be taken by providing them food and other facilities on priority basis, said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif while constituting a committee Tuesday comprising ministers concerned, assembly members and officers and issued instructions to resolve the matter relating to the impaired amicably as per l
The Madras High Court on Monday ordered notice to the State government on a public interest litigation petition seeking a direction to implement immediately the Centre’s guidelines of February 2013 on scribes for the visually challenged to write the examinations.
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