IT Enabled Braille Education for blind school of west bengal

• Under the Project "IT Enabled Braille Education for the Blind Schools of West Bengal and Augmentation of Infrastructure" Webel Mediatronics Limited is developing IT enabled Braille Education Infrastructure at 27 special schools and 2 libraries. The project is sponsored by DeitY, Ministry of Communications and IT, Govt. of India, Dept. of IT, Govt. of West Bengal and Dept. of Mass Education Extension, Govt. of West Bengal.

Infrastructure Development

1. By installing developed technology and internet connection at 70 blind institutes across the country Webel Mediatronics Limited is on the way to building up a nationwide networked infrastructure of IT enabled Braille education for visually impaired.
2. These institutes will impart Braille education and offer Braille reading material to a maximum number of visually impaired persons in and outside the facility of the school.
3. Visually impaired persons studying at integrated schools and colleges may get Braille study material from these centres in printed form or can access the electronic libraries of the centres.
4. These centres while generating resource of their own, will access, share and exchange resource with others through Internet and thus, a nationwide commonly accessible pool of Braille resource will be generated.

By: Jagjot