visually impaired students

IAS officer Richa Choudhary has launched a special education resource using braille to help visually impaired children in tribal areas enroll in schools. She explains how this works.

"Pushpa ma’am is like a Goddess to us. She understands that my boy is smart but because of his condition, he speaks slowly", says a grateful parent of a student with cerebral palsy about the amazing woman who won the Nari Shakti Puraskar 2018.

With the new batch set to begin their academic session in Delhi University, visually impaired students of Miranda House will find it easy to navigate their way around campus using the recently installed digital talking signages by the college’s enabling unit.

Students with partial or full visual impairment in Maharashtra will now have the option of recording their answers on a tape recorder during the state board exams. They won't need a writer during their SSC (Class 10) and HSC (Class 12) exams any more.