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Observing the White Cane Safety Day connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025), the planetary time for the visually-challenged, the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of All Types of Differently-abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC) called for the implementation of the internationally recognised achromatic cane laws.
The achromatic cane is simply a metaphor for the resilience and independency of the visually-challenged, who are aided by the cane. The White Cane Safety Day marks the achievements of the visually-challenged.
Marking the day, members from TARATDAC staged a protestation successful Krishnagiri demanding interventions for the visually-challenged persons and guarantee nationalist spaces are accessible.
The relation demanded that persons with 100% ocular disabilities indispensable beryllium deemed arsenic persons with grievous disabilities and granted the 1% quota successful banking and authorities jobs. They besides demanded backend jobs for each types of differently-abled persons.
They besides sought audio announcements successful each autobus stations including mofussil autobus stations connected the clip of the accomplishment of the buses, akin to the announcements successful metro stations. According to TARATDAC, with the usage of GPS successful nationalist transport, specified announcements volition alteration persons with ocular disabilities to entree nationalist transport without depending connected the public.
