The newly renovated Dehradun railway station has much to offer to travellers. Now only does the station look bright and shining, it is completely accessible to visually impaired travellers.
Home to the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH) and Sharpe Memorial Blind School, India’s oldest blind school for children, Dehradun has a sizeable population of visually impaired people.
The government has made the norms for corporate social responsibility (CSR) more stringent. In new draft rules, greater onus has been put on companies for reporting details of their CSR activities and how such funds are used.
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, March 17
Perturbed over the defunct lift at the District Administrative Complex (DAC), a city-based disability activist has knocked at the doors of the state Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities.
The society we live in celebrates able-bodied individuals so much that most of us don’t realize that the world is becoming less and less inclusive of those who are different. To begin with, every workplace must be made inclusive and inclusive not just from the point of view of gender parity, but from the perspective of people who are physically different. A report by Accenture reported that companies who excel at disability inclusion outperformed their peers. Between 2015 and 2018 these organiz ..
Ishan Rawal who has only 0.5 pc vision sits through 7-hour reading sessions daily; appears for Class 12 exam.
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LUCKNOW: Lucknow Metro on Sunday launched ‘Go Smart Card’ in Braille for the convenience of visually challenged passengers, to mark the first anniversary of the commercial run of Metro on the entire 23km North-South corridor from Munshipulia till CCS airport.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/now-lucknow-metro-smart-card-in-braille/articleshow/74545652.cms
As I write this column with the intention of drawing attention to a large section of Indian population that lives on the margins of our society, I am thinking to myself: Does Anyone Care.
Does the media care? Do parents of ‘able’ children care? Do the politicians or bureaucrats care? Do schools and universities care? Do businesses care? Does the average individual care? And the resounding answer to all these questions is ‘probably not enough’. Not enough to bring about a revolutionary change in the way persons with disabilities lead their lives or how we treat them.
NEW DELHI: Colour blindness may not remain a bar any more for getting licence to drive private vehicles and those with “mild or moderate colour vision deficiency” may get to drive commercial vehicles too.
KOCHI: In our country, glaucoma is known to cause irreversible blindness in at least 12 million population affected by it, making near 1.2 million of them blind. However, over 90 % of cases remain undiagnosed. Glaucoma affects the optic nerve that connects our eyes to the brain. The clear fluid filling the eye, also known as aqueous humour, is constantly flowing in and out of the eye. Think of the eye as a sink with a tap that is always open.
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