The ministry of social justice and empowerment is set to launch a mobile application which will allow the differently abled, elderly and even Covid-19 patients to lodge accessibility-related problems in buildings or transport infrastructure by simply clicking and uploading pictures from their mobile phones.
The Kerala unit of Parivar, the National Confederation of Parents Organisations (NCPO), is fighting the Centre’s move to repeal the National Trust Act tooth and nail, to uphold the privileges enjoyed by intellectually challenged persons.
The High Court on Monday directed Delhi University to declare results of all postgraduate courses by October 31 and to upload the marksheets on its website.
The court also directed the university to ensure that students are not required to go to a college to physically collect the marksheets.
The Bench also fixed various deadlines between October 20 and 31 for declaration of results of undergraduate courses, with a buffer of maximum three days from the date fixed.
Noida:
As schools remain closed due to the Covid lockdown, learning has become a difficult task for students, especially for visually impaired students. To overcome this problem, a Noida-based NGO is helping more than 100 visually impaired students continue the learning process through online classes.
The NGO – Saksham Resource Centre – has also provided laptops and mobile phones to students to enable them to join online classes from home.
Kohima | October 8
Marking the World Sight Day, the eye care practitioners (Ophthalmologists, Optometrists and Ophthalmic Assistants) of Nagaland today conducted free eye check up in various clinics in Kohima and Dimapur.
This eye check-up aims to stress on the importance of eye health and to give quality eye care to the people of Nagaland.
Kezhangulie Mepfhü-o, Eye Optics, Kohima said World Sight Day is celebrated on the second Thursday of October every year.
It aims to spread awareness about blindness and visual impairment.
This story was first published in The Times Of India on October 8, 2020)
The latest episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 12 starts with previous day's roll-over contestant Asmita Madhav Gore. The 22-year-old contestant, who came on the show to support her family, was accompanied by her visually-impaired father. Asmita played the game quite well and with the help of four lifelines she was able to reach till Rs 25 lakh question. However, as the young girl was not sure about the answer and had also exhausted all the lifelines, she decided to quit the show.
A strip of cloud cut across the sun, over a grand old dormant volcano in Mauritius — a beautiful setting for a picture, thought Pranav Lal, on honeymoon with his wife Sacheta. Being born blind has not stopped this Delhi-based cyber-security specialist from choosing photography as his hobby. Pranav is in fact one among a number of amateur photographers with visual impairments in India.
The Bombay high court (HC) has asked the ministry of education and the National Council for Education, Research and Training (NCERT) to verify the credentials of the experts listed by the petitioner for finding a way to provide education for specially-abled children in over 900 special schools across the state.
Hope you’re doing fine. Been a while since I wrote and am sure you know why. To say that covid-19 has upended our lives is an understatement. Like a boxer looming over you after a knockout punch, the disease still rages on, incapacitating and killing people, destroying businesses and leaving a scar that is unlikely to fade away.
Health Minister Banna Gupta today said that the state-run Eye Banks will be connected with the nationwide cornea distribution system so that other eye banks in the State, where there is a long queue of cornea-related visually challenged people waiting for eye transplant can get cornea. This will help make available cornea to the visually impaired in time and their vision can be restored.
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