AICB National Conference of Visually Challenged Women : This event was held in New Delhi on 28th & 29th September, 2005 and was inaugurated by the Lt. Governor of Delhi. A large number of issues related to visually challenged women were discussed.
AICB Silver Jubilee National Dance Competition For Visually Challenged : For the first time Dance Competition at the National level was organized by AICB in collaboration with Light for the World, Austria on 14th November 2005 in New Delhi, in which 19 teams from all over the country took part. Clippings....
AICB Silver Jubilee National Consultation on Employment For Visually Challenged Persons : A two-day National Consultation on Employment of visually challenged persons was inaugurated by Hon’ble Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India on 18th November in New Delhi. Over 200 experts from all over the country took part. A special postal cover was released by Dr. Shakeel Ahmed, Union Minister of State for Communications and Dr. William Rowland, President, World Blind Union delivered the Keynote Address.
Louis Braille’s 200th Birth Anniversary Celebrations : All India Confederation of the Blind, a premier national organisation working with visually impaired persons, organized a big public function at its premises in Rohini on Sunday January 4, 2009 at 11.00 a.m., to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of Louis Braille, the inventor of the embossed reading and writing system for the blind.
Shri Tejendra Khanna, Lt. Governor, Delhi was the Chief Guest; Smt. Poonam Natarajan, Chairperson, National Trust for Developmental Disabilities, Government of India presided. About 1000 blind persons and their sighted well-wishers participated in the function. Some of the major highlights of the function were....
.Asian Conference on Status of Braille: A two-day Conference on the Status of Braille in Asia was inaugurated in the India International Centre, New Delhi on 22nd December, 2008 by Dr. Manoj Kumar, Chief Commissioner (Disabilities), Government of India. The Conference was organized by All India Confederation of the Blind (AICB) as a part of the Louis Braille’s 200th Birth Anniversary Celebrations in collaboration with CBM, Germany, NABP, Norway, European Union of the Blind, DAB, Denmark and The Braille Mainichi Newspaper Co., Japan. Over 125 delegates representing 20 States from India and 10 Asian Countries participated. The objective of the Conference was to make an in-depth review of the situation of Braille in the concerned countries and come up with a practical Plan of Action for spreading Braille literacy as a campaign. The Conference noted that Braille textbooks are available (only partially) to just about 29,000 out of 282000 blind children receiving education in the country today. The situation is not much different in other participating countries. The Conference has therefore; called upon Government of India and other National Governments to ensure that all blind children get textbooks in Braille during next five years. Also such books should be provided either free or highly subsidized costs in view of the fact that majority of blind children belong to extremely poor families. The Conference also strongly urged that knowledge of Braille should be made compulsory for all prospective teachers at teacher-training institutions, so that they have a right perception of the importance of Braille for blind children. A well-meaning Plan of Action was adopted on the second day of the Conference:......
