“Acceptance is a big hurdle,” says Dr. Preeja Balan, the co-founder and Director of Octave Hearing and Speech Centre in Bengaluru. We’re talking about the reasons why technology enabled solutions aren’t very widespread in the field of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) in India Balan says there is a lot of resistance amongst people in …
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KOCHI: The Kochi Metro Rail Ltd (KMRL) is all set to increase its solar power use to 6.3 MWp (megawatt peak). This follows an agreement signed with AMP Solar India Private Ltd on Monday. The power purchase agreement (PPA) for 2.3MWp solar power will be through a ground-mounted solar plant on the land available at the Muttom depot. Currently, …
Enabling differently abled people go about their daily life seamlessly should be the next milestone for innovative companies. At first glance, BarrierBreak’s office in Goregaon (East) looks much like any other workplace. Unless you consider the staff working there. About 70 per cent of the 140-people team is differently abled, coping with visual, auditory and …
The government has received more than Rs 600 crore as contribution to its Swachh Bharat Kosh in the last three years till November 2017, Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister Uma Bharti told Parliament today. In 2015, the SBK received 313.54 crore, in 2016, it received Rs 97.47 crore and in 2017 till November – a …
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HIGHLIGHTS Technology specialist Amit Bagwe was born with low vision and lost sight in his right eye in 2005. He now works with BarrierBreak in Mumbai, helping companies modify their software to include the needs of people with disabilities. Assistive technology designed to help people with disabilities is a huge and untapped market in India.
