Hi
You will have to read the definition of Low Vision too. Your case seems to
be on a slippery ground.
However no Authority can deny you the use of a scribe etc.
So if you can avoid getting into the nitty gritty of blindness and just
fight on the need for a scribe, it would be better. I have not read all the
mails on this subject as yet so please accept my suggestion as based on
limited facts.
Kanchan Pamnani
Advocate & Solicitor
9, Suleman Chambers,
Battery Street, Colaba,
Mumbai - 400 039.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mohib Anwar Rafay" <[email protected]>
To: "accessindia" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 11:21 PM
Subject: [AI] Urgent,is low vision covered under the definition of
blindness?
Hey experts, I would be thankful if somebody could explain to me the
section 2(b) of Persons with disabilities Act 1995.
For ready reference, I am reproducing the section as follows:
Sec2(b) define blindness, it provides “(b) "blindness" refers to a
condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions,
namely:---
(I) total absence of sight.
(ii) visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the
better eye with correcting lenses; or
(iii) limitation of the filed of vision subtending an angle of 20
degree or worse.”
Please explain to me the second and third point, so that I could argue
that a person who has 10% remaining sight, is covered by the
definition of blindness.
The case is that who is a blind person. One point is clear that who
has no sight is a blind person, but what is second and third point
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