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Visually-impaired armed with computer literacy
BANGALORE: Standing by their motto `Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya', the National Association for the Blind (NAB) empowered a fresh batch of students with computer education on Saturday. A contagious sense of accomplishment filled the room when the batch graduated.
Thirty-six students of the Karnataka branch of NAB received NIIT certificates in basic computer course. Subhash Dhar, senior vice-president, Infosys Techonology, distributed the certificates to the 25th batch of graduates. The Karnataka branch is the only one that offers four-month basic and one-year advanced programming computer courses. It has successfully trained 250 students in basics and 25 in advanced programming since 2000. The graduates have been placed at firms such as Infosys, IBM and Oracle.
The students are trained by NIIT-qualified faculty who use a special software which reads out text on the screen. One of the fresh graduates, Jeevan Reddy, said: "Our faculty is very helpful. We use a software called JAWS -- Job Access With Speech - which is designed keeping the visually-impaired in mind. My ambition is to become an IT programmer."
Subhash Dhar said: "Physical ability or disability is not important. Courage and conviction can overcome any hurdle. These students are evidence of that. They are the most motivated people I have come across in life."
NAB also provides free training in mobility, rehabilitation & basic skills, and music
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When: 03/11/2009
