Given that despite the precedents such as mine and one more (from Hyderabad who had a previous DL from the US), I have been getting quite a lot of queries over the years from people with monocular vision asking me how to proceed with getting a driving license.

I have a list of around 50 people who have sometime in the past contacted me either through email or by registering on this site. All of these people are from India and are in various service sectors, including central government services at higher positions.

I understand that one can get a DL by other means as well (such as going through the agent and somehow hiding their medical condition of being a person with a monocular vision). But this would be detrimental for various reasons. For example, in case of an accident, if you had a driving license that did not mention your medical condition, the insurance claim may get void. Apart from the fact that not mentioning your medical condition would be an illegal thing you would be doing which if found, be chargeable under the penal code of India and also other countries.

Therefore, this is high time all people with monocular vision should come together and put a concentrated fight that gives a clear instruction to the government RTOs that people with monocular vision should never be disallowed from getting a driving license on the ground being a person with monocular vision.

Apart from being a support group for people with monocular vision, we also plan to create formal association with a clear mission to either make amendments in the relevant acts or get a clear order from the government or the court notifying all the RTOs that one should not be disallowed to get a DL on sole ground of being a person with monocular vision.

I request all the people having monocular vision to be part of this group.

To join the group, go to the following link:

http://groups.google.com/d/forum/monocular

and click on "Apply for membership".

Please note

 - that this is a closed group and any posted here would not viewed publically.

- you must be a member of this group to post, reply and view the posts in this group.

- You can share your details without any qualms as this is going to remain a closed group.

 

 

Alice Walker

The Color Purple author Alice Walker was blinded in her right eye at age 12 after her brother shot her with a BB pellet during a game of "Cowboys and Indians."


Age: 71
Birthplace: Eatonton, Georgia, United States of America
Profession: Poet, Novelist, Author, Writer
Institution: Sarah Lawrence College, Spelman College

LostVision.org is an attempt to bring together people who have lost their vision partially or fully due to some incidents in their life and have to live with it for the rest of their life. People who once enjoyed full vision earlier but later they were deprived of it.

This is a change state.

This website intends to particularly log in the problems that such people face in their life. The problem is greater in case of people who encounter this situation early in their life and have to face the world with it for the rest of their life.

This website is an attempt by a person who himself lost vision in the right eye at an age of 16. And since then he has been facing the world with it. This is me.

Talking about myself. I must say that I have learnt what to ignore in society. This is a unique experience and I could not find anything documented on this. I also did not find anyone to share my problems with. I pray to god to give me the courage to write things in the boldest and most honest manner.

On the part of the visitors to this website, I would like to request to get a membership and share what they feel about such people. I sincerely want to hear this. So far all that I have heard about this situation have all been either negative or comic. No one talked about this siincerely.

For those visitors who have the same problem as is intended on this website, I would request them to get a membership and post their own experiences with society.

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