560,000 People with Disabilities Never Leave Their Homes Due to Transportation Difficulties. As conferees begin debating how to move forward with the federal transportation reauthorization, two civil rights organizations are highlighting massive disparities in transportation access for people with disabilities.
Liverpool will don one-off new-look shirts when they face Chelsea at Anfield this evening to raise awareness for a blindness charity.
The usual Standard Chartered logo on the front of the red shirts has been replaced by the words Seeing is Believing, the name of a charity seeking to tackle avoidable blindness.
Raising awareness: Steven Gerrard (left) and Martin Skrtel (right) will be part of the Liverpool side tonight wearing the alternative shirts
A free service providing visually-impaired Hertfordshire residents with talking books by post has been scrapped and will be replaced with subscriptions to a charity library.
The Cassettes for Blind People (CfBP) service has 378 regular users and is described in council documents as "running at capacity".
Hertfordshire County Council local and libraries cabinet panel met on Wednesday afternoon to approve the discontinuation of the service which costs the council £51,000 per year to operate.
At Mumbai's domestic airport, a reflexology parlour - which offers 30-minute foot massages for Rs 950 - employs visually-impaired masseurs from lower-income backgrounds. They make their way around using a chair-numbering system, use a speaking clock to keep track of massage time, and converse in polite English - symbols of the chaotic junction where indulgence and indigence converge in the city. Mumbai is no stranger to luxury goods and services, just as it carries the dubious distinction of being the most unequal city in the world.
In an effort to help differently-abled children, Tamil Nadu Government has decided to set up a State Resource Centre here, the first of its kind in the country.
Making a suo motu statement in the Assembly, the Chief Minister, Ms Jayalalithaa, said the centre would have specialised doctors associated with Ministry of Social Welfare and Health besides experts and consultants from various fields.
Though the Ministry of Railways has taken a number of measures to make public transport facilities accessible to differently abled persons, the associations for differently abled persons say that there are flaws in implementation and most of the provisions did not reach them effectively.
According to members of the associations, it is ironical that persons with disabilities (PWDs) are not allowed to book tickets online.
Each time she hears someone complain about the traffic and the reluctance of people to use public transport, journalist Nikita D. has just one question: “Why should people, especially women, be forced to take public transport when we all know how unsafe it is?”
Monuments like Aga Khan palace, Shaniwarwada, and Raigad fort will be among the first to have ramps, wheelchairs and information boards in Braille. They will become barrier-free allowing the disabled to access them, according to an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) plan.
Around 800 differently-abled students of Delhi University are feeling forlorn and forsaken. Since early March, when a girl student with loco-motor disability, was hit by a speeding bike while crossing the road near the central library in North Campus, a feeling of willful neglect by the university authorities has grown among these students.
A division bench of Rajasthan High Court has taken cognizance of a PIL seeking a directive to the state government to provide appropriate facilities and basic amenities to visually impaired persons in state's public libraries, computer training institutes etc.
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