India will soon have separate guidelines for eye donations and transplantation. The Union health ministry, in its bid to augment eye donations in the country, has set up a committee, headed by the chief of R P Eye Centre at AIIMS, Dr R V Azad, to frame new rules which will separate eye retrieval and transplant from organ donations. 

Living in a city far from home was the least of the problems Shravali Bhagwat Kalyankar, Suchitha Shirode and Varsha Veer had to face. And for Usha Garware, taking care of household chores as her parents went to work in their farm was not the only thing she had to manage.

Blind students under the Economically Weaker Section category made a mark for themselves despite their limitations. The average score of a group of 20 such students is 7 CGPA in the class 10 board exams. 

They are put up at the National Association for the Blind. “The National Association for the Blind prepares them for their integration into mainstream schools,” said principal Shantha Rangarajan. The students go to different schools.

Reshma Dileep, an academically bright 15-year-old blind student is fighting the system to enroll into a science course at Government Fisheries Higher Secondary School, Nattika, Thrissur. Reshma secured nine A+ and an A grade in Humanities in the SSLC but was denied admission to science groups stating that she won't be able to perform practical experiments which is a course requirement.

Laying emphasis on importance of education for visually-impaired students, the Supreme Court has asked the Delhi University's Empowered Committee to consider and redress within a week grievances raised by them against the curriculum for the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) being introduced from this academic session.