The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed the state government to constitute a panel for monitoring and ensuring that 1% quota as provided by the rules for the visually disabled is fulfilled within six months. The court has sought an action-taken report after six months.

He talks passionately about the rights of farmers on their produce, and wants to educate them on bio-privacy. The fact that he is visually impaired, he says, has never deterred him from completing his research on intellectual property, traditional knowledge and bio-diversity.

On Thursday, 35-year-old S. Elumalai was awarded a Ph.D at the seventh convocation ceremony of Dr. Ambedkar Law University.

A consistent gold medallist in various institutions, including Madras Law College, Elumalai hails from a village near Tiruvannamalai.

Imagine a young blind child, who is too weak to hold a stylus in his hand, to punch holes on a sheet while training how to write in the Braille script.

After impressing holes on the sheet from right to left, the child has to know the pattern of reading it from left to right after flipping the sheet over.

A four-day trade fair aimed at creating awareness about technical advancements in aid, assistive and rehabilitative devices for the people with disabilities will be organised here from Thursday, an official said.

"We are organising Swavlamban, a national fair on aid and assistive devices for people with disabilities, at Pragati Maidan July 25-28," said Stuti Kacker, secretary in the department of disability affairs, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

Two new modern Braille printing units have reached the press of the Red Cross School for the Blind in Berhampur, the only such press in Odisha.

It is hoped that the new printing units would meet the textbook needs of the visually impaired schoolchildren of the State. The new ‘Interprint 55 high speed embossers’ have been imported from Belgium as they are not produced in India. Manager of the Prakash Narayan Rath says the units cost Rs.1.70 crore.

50-year-old Abu Gawere was a welder for the Indian Army, and was afraid he would lose his job when his eyesight began to decline. According to Section 47 of the Disability Act, a person cannot be fired due to his disability, but Gawere knew that the Indian Army was exempted from this. Not knowing what to do next, he turned to Eyeway.org, who did a little research of their own; and found out that civilians employed by the Indian Army cannot be fired due to disability. Thanks to the efforts of the team at Eyeway.org, Abu Gawere continued in a secure job.