NEW DELHI: The first seat on DTC buses will now be reserved for disabled or blind passengers. On Wednesday, transport minister Gopal Rai chaired a public hearing at the regional transport office in Burari. After the hearing, Rai announced a slew of measures to "upgrade" the functioning of the RTO there.
Odisha Disabled Peoples’ Network coordinator Sanyas Behera has reiterated that the State Government must appoint a disabled person as the State Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). “The Selection Committee headed by Women and Child Development Minister Usha Devi will sit tomorrow to select the new Commissioner of the State Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).
The issues pertaining to the visually impaired persons must be resolved immediately and utmost care should be taken by providing them food and other facilities on priority basis, said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif while constituting a committee Tuesday comprising ministers concerned, assembly members and officers and issued instructions to resolve the matter relating to the impaired amicably as per l
ISLAMABAD: Punjab that celebrated International Disability Day by beating the protesting blind persons in Lahore has the smallest number of disabled population whereas the terrorist-hit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has the highest number of disabled persons but no law is in place anywhere to address their issues.
The Punjab Government on Tuesday agreed to fill all 274 vacant posts reserved for differently-abled persons in three corporations of Amritsar, Jalandhar and Ludhiana as demanded by members of Handicapped Welfare Union, who had been on a fast over the issue since last 20 days.
Visually-challenged teachers working in different colleges and universities in the State on Wednesday submitted a 10-point charter of demands to Higher Education Minister Pradeep Panigrahy highlighting their issues here at a seminar organised at Orissa Association for the Blind (OAB) premise.
The Department of Disability Affairs ( Nishaktata Karya Vibhag ) functioning under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has been renamed as the Department of Empowerment of Perso
Srinagar, Dec 21: Director Social Welfare (DSW) department Kashmir Gazanfar Ali on Sunday said the government was committed to help the persons with disabilities.
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned the police violence against the visually impaired protesters and said the violent action again exposed the savagery of the baton-wielding face of what passed for authority in the province.
Row over DU economics paper for visually impaired
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