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ADP sponsors kits for visually impaired cricket team

ADP Pvt. Ltd., a leading provider of Human Capital Management Technology and Services based in Hyderabad and Pune, which has sponsored the State-level tournament for the visually challenged held in October 23-24, has also announced sponsoring the entire cricket kit with shoes to the chosen 14 players to play for Telangana in the 4th edition of ‘Nagesh Trophy’ – National T20 Cricket Tournament for the Blind 2021-2022, scheduled to take place till November 25 in Haryana and Delhi.

Visually impaired cyclist Ajay Lalwani begins 7,500 kms journey across India to spread the message of road safety

Mumbai : Ajay Lalwani, a visually impaired cyclist, is embarking on a 7,500 kms journey across India to raise awareness about road safety and the need for adequate lighting on our country’s roads. He will begin his journey from Gateway of India, Mumbai, and will travel twice across the length of the country to Srinagar, Kanyakumari and back to Mumbai, cycling through 12 states over a course of 45 days. His mission is supported by Signify (Previously known as Philips Lighting), the global leader in lighting.

6.5 lakh differently abled at receiving end of Punjab Govt ‘apathy’

Patiala, November 14

Though the Cabinet has already approved the “Punjab Divyangjan Sashaktikaran Yojana (PDSY)” across the state in January this year, a majority of the government departments are not even aware of the scheme so far.

The scheme is meant to empower the differently abled persons in the state and the Cabinet has already allocated Rs 35 crore towards it for the financial year 2021.

Schemes for persons with disabilities reviewed

PUDUKOTTAI:

Schemes for persons with disabilities were reviewed by R. Lalvena, Secretary, Department of Welfare of Differently Abled Persons, here on Tuesday.

The meeting organised at the District Collectorate was attended by Collector Kavitha Ramu and officials of all government departments.

Two blind students graduate with distinction

Panaji: Sumera Khan, 23, from Margao was born with blindness, but ask her to travel to Santa Cruz for her sessions at the National Association of the Blind (NAB) and she can do so seamlessly using public transport, with only her white cane as support.

Job for visually impaired man: LHC dismisses govt’s plea against single bench verdict

LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench has dismissed an appeal filed by the Punjab government against a single bench’s decision whereby it was directed to consider a visually impaired candidate for an educator’s job who qualified for the post.

Muhammad Kamran Jamil, a visually impaired candidate, responding to an advertisement issued by the Punjab education department for the posts of Elementary School Educators (ESE), applied for the job and cleared the test conducted by the National Testing Service (NTS).

Nearabl App Created for the Blind Moving into Real-time Evacuation Support for All

Launching at the NYS Innovation Summit November 8-9, 2021

VERONA. N.Y., Nov. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearabl, an indoor navigation iPhone application for anyone that needs information in order to navigate to safety. It enables users to instantly access visually rich and real-time evacuation navigation paths for their tenants. More information can be found at www.nearabl.com.

Homes for visually challenged completed in Tiruvallur

For visually impaired Alli and her husband, paying their monthly house rent of ₹3,000 is the biggest challenge. Though she has an MA, B.Ed, she has been enrolled under the MGNREGA 100 days programme and is managing to survive.

The Tiruvallur district administration has now completed the construction of houses for Ms. Alli and 15 others like her near Uthukottai. The houses were sanctioned in 2016-17, but left incomplete due to various reasons.

G-Suite training begins for teachers

Thiruvananthapuram: State general education department has started G-Suite online platform training for visually- challenged teachers in government and aided schools in the state. As many as 456 teachers across the state are about to benefit from the training programme organised by KITE.
KITE has already deployed free software-based screen reader applications like Orca in the school computers so that teachers with visual impairment would be able to overcome their limitations with the help of technology.

Mastercard to introduce special cards for the visually impaired people

US-based payment processing company Mastercard has launched an accessible card standard designed to help partially sighted and blind people, called the Touch Card.

As most cards have moved to flat designs without embossed numbers or names, Mastercard came up with a means for the visually impaired people to easily identify the type of card they are using – credit, debit, or prepaid.