Nice thing, Ifthe radio is awailable in online, it will be much good.
On 12/22/10, prateek aggarwal <[email protected]> wrote: > i think we need more such innitiatives across the nation. > great move, hope it will be carried out with complete honesty and > responsibility. > > --- > A radio service for the blind, by the blind > HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times > Dehradun, December 21, 2010 > First Published: 14:09 IST(21/12/2010) > > In a unique initiative, Dehradun would start a first-of-its-kind FM > radio service for the visually impaired. This new initiative, proposed > by National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH), Dehradun, > the apex body in the field of education and rehabilitation of the > visually handicapped in India under the Ministry of Social Justice and > Empowerment, is expected to start within 15 days. A group of 15-20 > partially and completely visually impaired members would run the radio > station. > "The radio will be launched on January 4, the birth anniversary of > Louis Braille, inventor of embossed reading and writing system for > visually disabled. The institute has already converted all it's > existing collection of more than 30,000 cassettes with the help of > DAISY player software which helps visually impaired," said Jagdish > Lakheda, training and placement officer of NIVH while talking to HT on > Monday. > Lakheda was in the city to participate in a workshop conducted for the > visually impaired. > The FM will have a frequency of 25 km, he said and added that the > institute is also planning to launch a radio course for the visually > impaired in Dehradun. The concept for this new initiative took shape > five years back, but it started evolving as a separate unit one-year > back, he said. > The shows, which NIVH has already recorded for radio have already been > distributed in a CD among the visually impaired students free of cost > and among the institutions all over the country to check whether > students are liking the shows or not. > "The shows will be informational, recreational and educational. Drama, > poems, folk stories have also been included in the service and if this > service gets success in Dehradun, the institution has planned to open > its next FM radio station in some cities of South India," said > Lakheda. > Elaborating about the institute, he said, "In NIVH, we have country's > only National Talking Book Library for the visually handicapped which > is fulfilling the intellectual needs of the visually impaired in the > country. The library possesses more than 3,876 audio titles and more > than 30,000 audiocassettes in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. The > institute library was planning to go digital in the coming months. > --- > > regards, > prateek agarwal. > website: > www.prateekagarwal.webs.com > | > www.prateekagarwal.tk > > best way to get your softwares/websites developed. > you tell, i'll build. > > To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > -- "Strength is life, weakness is death" Best Regards Mohith B. P. Personal ID: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
