The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently updated the Mobile Aided Note Identifier (MANI) app to include 11 more Indian languages for the ease of visually impaired people.
The application was filed in a pending petition by advocate Rohit Dandriyal seeking directions to the authorities to withdraw the new currency notes of Rs 50 as the visually-impaired people were finding it difficult to use...
The coins, in denomination of Rs 1, Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs 10 and Rs 20, were released at a function at his residence here where blind children were invited.
The Southern Railway has installed Braille navigation maps at the Puratchi Thalaivar Dr M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station and Egmore station
The Rajasthan education department claims that its initiative of offering video lessons in sign language for specially-abled students is the first of its kind in the country.
A 15-year-old visually-challenged girl got a man arrested who molested her on a Mumbai local train to Kalyan from Dadar.
There is no standard system for the visually impaired to take exams in Braille in India. Availability of books in Braille is also a problem.
