First in State, Special Computers for Visually-Impaired

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Indian Express
7, March 2010
Vadodara, India

Visually Impaired Special computers for visually–impaired
The Vadodara–based Society for Training and Vocational Rehabilitation of the Disabled has become the first institution in the state and one of the four in the country to have a specially developed computer system for the visually–impaired people.

The project has been initiated by the Information and Technology Department, New Delhi and IT company Webel Mediatronics Ltd has been assigned the job to develop the computer system.

Around 60 institutions for the visually–impaired people across the country will be supplied with the new systems. Purshottam Panchal, the president of the Vadodara institute said, “We had been training the visually–impaired for last many years and our students have won several state and national awards for their extraordinary achievements.”

The new computer systems were handed over to the students by well–known kathakaar Rameshbhai Oza at the Seva Tirth campus located on the outskirts of the city.

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