NIVH inviting proposal for running braille presses
Inviting proposals form the State Governments / UT administrations and voluntary organizations running braille presses for establishment / Modernization / capacity augmentation of Braille Presses.
List of NIVH
National Institute for the Visually Handicapped – Braille Press
“The modern printing facility that was recently set up with imported machines from Norway is capable of printing five lakh Braille copies per month. But the demand for Braille text books is much less. Only about 330 Braille text books have been sold so far in 2010-2011 and two books have been distributed free of cost,” said I. Arivanandham, Regional Director (incharge) of NIVH.
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities
The main objectives of the National Trust are to enable and empower persons with disabilities to live as independently and as fully as possible, to extend support to registered organisations providing need based services, and to evolve procedure for appointment of legal guardians for persons with disabilities requiring such protection. The Government of India has provided Rs.100 crores toward the corpus of the Trust. The income generated from the corpus is utilized to implement its programmes.
Role Of Important Institutions
There exist six National Institutes alongwith their respective regional centres in each of the major area of disability.
Research Centers
The institute occupies 43 acres on the Mussoorie-Dehradun Highway. Autonomous in nature, it is considered to be the largest of its kind in Asia.