Ashish Goyal was never one to be in the doldrums, except once when he accidentally bumped into a female teacher in 2001, his final graduation year. Furious, the teacher insulted him in a crowd of students assuming he’d walked into her intentionally. That’s when he started using a white cane—for him it was acceptance, for others a signal that he is visually impaired.

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).

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 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.

The Punjab Government on Tuesday agreed to fill all 274 vacant posts reserved for differently-abled persons in three corporations of Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana as demanded by members of Handicapped Welfare Union, who had been on a fast over the issue since last 20 days.