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Himachal Pradesh gets its first school for blind

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh to get first school for visually impaired. The National Federation of the Blind is all set to open the school in Shimla.

The school will be opened in Rohroo area of Shimla. The federation will be asking companies help to set up the schools.

The schools will have modern hostel, brail education backup and talking computers to make them technically fit.

Since there were no schools in Shimla for blind, the children were kept with other physically disabled children in schools at Sunder Nagar and Shimla.

In north India the Special Blind Schools are already working in Kapurthala in Punjab and Ambala in Haryana, and now Himachal shall have its own school for blind.