February is marked as Low Vision Awareness Month. Low vision affects millions of people, children and adults, and cannot be fixed with eyeglasses, contact lenses, or surgery. Low vision also makes some activities difficult like reading, writing and cooking. Playing games can be frustrating too. We have put together a list of five board games that have been adapted beautifully for people who are blind and low vision.
Jadavpur University has provided funds to 22 of its visually impaired students so they can stay at rented places that have good Internet connectivity and attend online classes.
The students, mostly from remote areas, used to stay at JU hostels. Since the campus was shut down in March following the Covid-19 outbreak, they have been staying at home. Many are unable to attend online classes because of poor Net connectivity in their localities.
These students cannot afford rented accommodations in the city because of financial reasons, said JU officials.
Arushi and Dilip Buildcon Limited organized ‘The 15th Blind Challenge Car Rally 2021’ on Sunday. PK Mishra was present as the Chief Guest and flagged off the first vehicle and started the rally from DB city Mall, Bhopal.
Supriya Jatav Gold Medalist, Common Wealth Games and Winner of US Open Karate Championship, Atul Kataria, Rohit Trivedi, Ashutosh Roy were also present as special guest. The first car was driven by Aruneshwar Singh Deo with Navigator Nisha Ojha.
Do you know India is home to over 20 percent of the world’s blind population? Nearly 40 million people in India, including 1.6 million children, are blind or visually impaired. At Medicircle we are conducting the Empowering the blind series on the occasion of World Braille Day. We feel braille is not just a code but a source for the empowerment of the Blind.
India enacted a law to protect the interests of migrant workers in 1979 with all good intentions. It ensured fair and decent conditions of employment along with the licensing of contractors who employ migrant workers, said details of all migrant workers should be provided to the relevant authorities and had a host of other good features. Yet this country saw the utter misery of the migrant workers during the Covid lockdown, with thousands marching home on foot with nothing to hang on to except their miserable belongings.
Jalandhar, January 12
DC Ghanshyam Thori directed the Health Department to organise special camps in the district to speed up the enrollment of specially-abled persons for the Unique Disability Identity Card (UDID).
Recently, the Supreme Court's Justice Chandrachud made a remark at the valedictory ceremony at an international summit on the theme Legal Professionals with Disabilities on the International D
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, January 11
Deprived of state pension schemes and other medical facilities due to the unavailability of identity cards, the inmates of Pingla Ghar on Monday received their Aadhaar cards. The members of state advisory body for the disabled people organised a camp to make Aadhaar cards of the physically disabled and elderly people.
ITANAGAR, 11 Jan: Chief Minister Pema Khandu stressed on the need for empowering the people with disabilities to build an inclusive society.
He said this during a meeting with the Secretary for Persons with Disabilities (PwD) Department under the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (MSoJE), Shakuntala D Gamlin on Monday.
He assured his full support for establishment of a national institute, an ancillary unit and a composite regional centre (CRC) for the people with disabilities in Arunachal.
Indic Trust Lucknow is pleased to announce the board exam special for class ten and twelve. Indic trust will be sending you guides, samples papers, important questions, guess questions to visually impaired students. Students need to send whatsapp messages to us and the necessary materials will be sent to them. The service will continue till the Board examinations. Student needs to just send a WhatsApp message to 8604469165.
Currently all guides and sample papers are in english medium and hindi medium books will come by first week of february 2021.
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