Bhubaneswar: Laxmi Barik is a 15-year-old visually impaired girl. But that has not deterred her from playing cricket. She, along with 43 other visually challenged girls, are busy practising ahead of the first ever blind women's cricket tournament of the state to begin here from Friday.
For the first time, more than 50 visually challenged students studying in SSLC and above were given talking laptops in Mysuru. The laptops have in-built audio keyboards that are incorporated with special software to make them user-friendly.
NEW DELHI: Films to sensitise society about handicapped persons would be screened in the first-ever international film festival for persons with disability next month. To be held from December 1-3, the festival would show 40 films on different categories of disabilities including 10 feature films, 16 short films and 14 documentaries in different languages.
CHENNAI: Over 150 people registered themselves for eye donation in Sankara Nethralaya Hospital on Monday at a function. Polycab, cables and wires manufacturers in India have taken this initiative under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity. Employees of Polycab and people from different walks of life came forward to donate their eyes on suggestion by Polycab. According to a press release, the initiative is to promote eye donation and also raise awareness among the people about this novel thing.
HYDERABAD:Visually-challenged people from various parts of the country, who gathered at a national conference on Right to Education Act (RTE) here on Sunday, made a unanimous demand for equal opportunities for blind students in education.
Chhattisgarh’s Social Welfare Minister Ramsheela Sahu walked blindfolded to a certain distance at the Jai Stambh Chowk in Raipur along with the blind children on the occasion of International White Cane Day observed in the State on Thursday.
On the occasion of White Cane Day on October 15, we have to address a serious issue today in India. There are over 16 million blind people and around 28 million visually impaired people in India. However only a few of them have been able to accessany help that they deserve from the authorities.
Candidates with over 40 per cent visual impairment who sit for the K-TET and SET examinations will get a 10 per cent relaxation in marks, an order issued by the State government says.
WHO South-East Asia has 140 million visually impaired people. The Region has an estimated 12 million blind people, 8 million of them in India. More than 50% of all blindness is caused by cataract which accounts for 33% of visual impairment. Uncorrected refractive errors are responsible for 43% of the visual impairment in the Region.
Imagine a life without sight. Scary and difficult isn't it? Eyes are such an important organ of the human body. They allow us to see the beauty of this wonderful world. Yet, we pay so little attention to our eyes. If we have fever or an upset stomach we immediately rush to a doctor.
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