Bosch Opens Accessible Resource Center to Aid Visually Impaired STEM Learners

Bengaluru, June 12, 2025: Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW), in collaboration with Vision Empower (VE) and the Centre for Accessibility in the Global South (CAGS) at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIITB), has inaugurated the Accessible Resource Center (ARC)—a pioneering inclusive education hub designed to students with visual impairment through assistive technology and special educators empowerment and training program through a specially curated pedagogy.

Ramps for PwDs at Govt. Building

New Delhi: Delhi Govt on Saturday announced that all state buildings and sports stadiums in the capital will soon be redesigned to better serve persons with disabilities (PwDs). These upgrades will include features like ramps, lifts, and Braille signage, among others.

AI transforms sightseeing for visually impaired users

AI transforms sightseeing for visually impaired users
Breakthrough AI transforms how people with visual impairments experience the world, giving them tools to discover, understand, and experience the beauty of unfamiliar places like never before.

Visually Impaired students can now smell their way on DSMNRU campus

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.

A blind bank manager was transferred 6 times for lack of assistive tech. Then he moved Delhi HC

Rahul Kumar contends bank had failed to create an enabling work environment by denying him a screen reader. His frequent transfers were also a violation of his rights, he asserts.

Sugamya Delhi Abhiyan' Launched to Make Delhi Accessible and Inclusive for Persons with Disabilities

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.

यूपी सरकार ने दृष्टिबाधित शिक्षा को दी नई दिशा, ब्रेल प्रेस से रौशन हो रहा भविष्य

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।

Meet the first visually impaired Indian woman to scale Everest, from a village in Himachal Pradesh

Chhonzin Angmo, 29, hoisted the Tricolour atop Mt Everest; "This is only a step in my dream to instill willpower in every specially-abled person," Angmo says

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.

UP Pioneers Inclusive Education: Integrated Schools For Divyang Students Take Shape In 7 Districts

These schools currently serve around 325 Divyang students, including those who are visually impaired, hearing impaired, orthopedically challenged, or intellectually disabled.