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‘Talking Book Library’ planned

Sushanta Talukdar

The visually disabled can listen to books that would be read aloud

Guwahati: For visually disabled persons in the northeastern States, listening to books in English or in the regional languages by a writer of their choice that would be read aloud in a Talking Book Library may be a dream that will come true soon, courtesy the National Federation of the Blind (NFB).

A Talking Book Library equipped with a compact disk recording studio is one of the three projects identified by the NFB aimed to make the learning process easier for visually disabled persons of the region and to provide them skill development training to ensure gainful employment.

Newly elected vice-president (east zone) of the NFB Imran Ali said funds would come from the NFB.

He said the federation would impart computer-related and other skill development training to visually disabled students so that they could get gainful employment and be motivated to look for avenues of self-employment.

The NFB would seek to set up a computerised Braille Press and Braille Library and a hostel for college going students here.

Mr. Ali, and senior National Federation of the Blind member Ajoy Kumar Khatoniar urged visually disabled students and others to avail themselves of benefits under various programmes and schemes of the NFB that include scholarships, vocational rehabilitation and training programmes at residential training centres in different States, and housing loan schemes.

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