Lucknow: Visually impaired students at Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University (DSMNRU) can now ‘smell their way' to their destinations on campus, all thanks to a unique initiative under which fragrant pathways have been created.
New Delhi [India], May 17: Taking forward the Prime Minister's 'Accessible India Campaign' (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan), a major step was taken to make Delhi an inclusive capital for persons with disabilities. On the occasion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2025, a high-level stakeholder consultation was held at the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD) in Dwarka, New Delhi, where the Sugamya Delhi Abhiyan was officially launched.
उत्तर प्रदेश में दिव्यांग सशक्तीकरण को लेकर सरकार द्वारा किए जा रहे कार्य न केवल मानवीय संवेदनाओं को प्रकट कर रहे हैं, बल्कि यह भी दर्शा रहे हैं कि राज्य सरकार ‘सबका साथ, सबका विकास’ के भाव को वास्तविकता में कैसे परिवर्तित कर रही है। दृष्टिबाधित विद्यार्थियों को मुख्यधारा से जोड़ने के लिए प्रदेश सरकार ने ब्रेल प्रेस के संचालन में उल्लेखनीय कार्य किया है, जो आज दिव्यांगजनों की शिक्षा और आत्मनिर्भरता की नींव बन रहे हैं।
Amar Chand began his week as he has for decades — overseeing the green peas and apple plantations at his one-acre farm in a village deep inside the Hangrang Valley in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh.
What approach does the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016 take? Why do banks and other financial and government institutions mandate collecting KYC details? How does the current digital KYC framework exclude visually impaired individuals and acid attack survivors?
Indore: Over 7500 individuals with disabilities, who have applied for approximately 300 positions at Indore Municipal Corporation(IMC), are losing hopes as state govt is yet to issue directives regarding the recruitment process, nearly ten months after applications were submitted.The IMC had launched a special recruitment drive aimed at providing employment opportunities to persons with disabilities, offering both permanent and contractual roles.The application window, which opened on July 22, 2024, had witnessed a whopping 7500 applications against 300 vacant posts.
Independent and confident — that’s how M. Anand describes his feeling of having written the board exams. The first visually impaired student to write the State board Class 12 exams on a computer, Anand scored 486 out of 600.
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