4 months ago
1
The Telangana authorities is acceptable to present Braille textbooks for Intermediate and Degree courses, announced Minister for SC, ST and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Welfare, Adluri Laxman Kumar, connected Sunday.
Speaking astatine the 217th commencement day celebrations of Louis Braille astatine the Department for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities bureau connected Sunday, the Minister hailed Braille arsenic a visionary who transformed the lives of visually impaired individuals and nine astatine large.
“Currently, Braille textbooks are disposable lone up to Class X, forcing galore visually impaired students to discontinue their education. In presumption of this, we are taking steps to code this gap,” the Minister said, assuring that each issues wrong his department’s purview would beryllium resolved promptly, portion others would beryllium taken to the announcement of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for action.
He besides said that a connection to supply escaped autobus question crossed the State for persons with disabilities would soon beryllium placed earlier the Chief Minister.
Marking the occasion, the Minister unveiled the State’s first-ever Braille New Year calendar, designed for usage by some visually impaired individuals and the wide public. Mr. Laxman Kumar besides said that assistive devices would soon beryllium distributed escaped of outgo to 8,000 beneficiaries.
Telangana Vikalangula Co-Operative Corporation (TVCC) president Muthineni Veeraiah noted that the Braille calendar is simply a first-of-its-kind inaugural successful the country. He added that a 5% preservation nether the Indiramma Housing Scheme has enabled thousands of persons with disabilities to physique homes. He besides pointed retired that portion the erstwhile authorities allocated ₹64 crore implicit a decade, the contiguous authorities has sanctioned ₹100 crore wrong 2 years.
Department Secretary Anita Ramachandran and Director Shailaja announced caller developmental initiatives, including further ₹1 lakh assistance for marriages involving persons with disabilities, implicit and supra the Kalyana Lakshmi scheme.
