Innovation
"On the streets the sidewalks are
cluttered with street vendors, animals, streetlights and other obstacles
which make them uncomfortable even for sighted people," explains
Professor Meenakshi Balakrishnan, a computer engineer at the Indian
Institute of Technology, in Delhi.
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