This Thane centre will help differently-abled students

Life is not easy for differnently-abed as there are very few facilities that help them enhance their academic performance. In order to help such students to pursue their dream in the field of academics, Thane city has a new research centre for them.

More than 5,000 visually challenged residents from Thane district can take advantage of the newly opened research centre for the blind by the Thane Municipal Corporation. The centre caters to those who have finished school and want to pursue higher education or professional skills. At present students from places like Thane, Kalyan, Dombivali or Badlapur have to visit to Worli for such a centre.

“The centre will provide resources to the visually challenged who need to study further after school. The books they want for further studies are very costly, we have scanned most of them and converted to audio books. There are computer stations along with headphones where these students can access these books. Apart from this we have also installed latest software and technologies available for the visually challenged.” said Maneesh Joshi, educational officer of Thane Municipal corporation.

Civic commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal implemented the idea with the help of Rotary Club of Thane Lakecity. It was inaugurated this week at a civic school in Kopri.

This include book scanners which scan book into audio books through optical character recognition.

This is the initial plan of the centre, in the later stage the centre also decides to provide professional courses which will be beneficial for these people to get a job in coroprate companies.