The Heikapokpi Mission Blind School has been functioning without any assistance from the State government, stated Head Master K Pareng Kom during an inspection visit made by All Tribal Disabled Union Manipur (ATDUM) today. The Head Master further said that the school has a total strength of 116 students from classes Nursery to Class VIII with nine teachers and three non-teaching staffs.

Himachal Pradesh has notified four senior secondary schools in the state as inclusive institutions where the physically challenged will be provided education, Shimla-based public welfare trust Umang Foundation said Tuesday.

"The government has notified four senior secondary schools as inclusive where disabled students will study along with other children. Eight more schools are to be made inclusive schools soon," foundation chairman Ajai Srivastava said in a statement.

Srivastava said the four schools notified are in Shimla, Nagrota Bagwan, Nahan and Jogindernagar towns.

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled out any interference in Delhi University’s four-year undergraduate programme.

A vacation bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Dipak Misra, however, said it would pass a direction to ensure all facilities are provided to visually challenged students.“These are policy matters and the court should not interfere in it,” the court said, asking the university to file an affidavit giving details of the facilities it intends to provide to blind students.

KartikSawhney had to wage a battle before being allowed to study science in class XI. The CBSE was not convinced Kartik, who is completely blind, would be able to handle the 'visual inputs' — graphs, diagrams, models — required for science. The doubters got their answer on Monday. Kartik scored a 95% aggregate in science with computers in class XII. 

D Akshay Kumar started losing his eyesight at the age of 7 and by the time he was in class 6, he lost it completely. It has been an uphill task since, and on Monday, the student of DAV Senior Secondary School, Mogappair, was a proud lad when he scored 92% in commerce of the class 12 CBSE exam. 

The football team of the Society for Rehabilitation of the Visually Challenged (SRVC), who finished runners-up in the 8th IBSA National Blind Football Championship at New Delhi, was given a warm reception at the Ernakulam South Railway Station on Tuesday.

Beating all odds, a visually impaired girl, Shrishti Tiwari, from Damoh town has topped the Madhya Pradesh Higher Secondary examination in Arts stream.

The results were declared two days back by the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education. For Shrishti, a student of JBP Government Higher Secondary School in Damoh, the achievement is special not only academically but also because of the fact that she is visually impaired since birth. She scored 481 out of 500 marks to emerge as the topper in Arts stream.