New Delhi: At a time when the Supreme Court has asked the state governments to provide shelter to the homeless, a group of visually challenged students in Delhi have been forced to live out in the open, after their shelter in the Virender Nagar area near Janakpuri in west Delhi was sealed without notice by the authorities. Till 2010, the nearly 30 visually-challenged students of the Louis Welfare Blind Association...
04:35 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Pune: As a visually impaired student, sixteen year old Suchita felt there were no vocational institutes where she could realise her dream of becoming a teacher. That's when she heard of Meera Badve's Niwant, a school and vocational institute in Pune. Meera Badve says, "Niwant aims to change how the society thinks that the blind can't go beyond school." A chance visit to a blind school and her teaching experience...
09:04 AM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi government has finally written to the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), requesting them to hand over the building to the 30 blind students, who were illegally evicted from the house last month. Two weeks ago, CNN-IBN reported about a group of blind students, who were evicted for illegally occupying a building in West Delhi for eight years- though for no fault of theirs. Following the CNN-IBN impact,...
12:20 PM, Sep 01, 2010
Days after CNN-IBN reported on the plight of 30 visually challenged students who were thrown out of their hostel, the government has promised to help them. ...
09:45 PM, Aug 16, 2010
New Delhi: There seems to be some ray of hope for the blind men who became homeless after they were evicted from the building in New Delhi where they had been staying in for the last nine years. After CNN-IBN showed the blind men had been forced to stay under appalling conditions after being evicted by the Delhi Development authority for living in an illegal building, offers of help are...
09:30 PM, Aug 14, 2010
New Delhi: Even as India gets ready to celebrate it's 64th Independence Day, a group of blind students are fighting for a place to live in the national capital. On July 26, the students who had been living in a building in Virender Nagar in West Delhi were evicted by the Delhi Development Authority officials because the hostel building they were living in for the last eight years was allegedly...
10:01 PM, Aug 13, 2010
They may not be able to see but they used their fingers to feel every inch of the Taj Mahal, holding one another's shoulders. ...
02:27 PM, Dec 26, 2006
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