Soon, a talking book library for visually impaired in N-E

A law graduate from Delhi University, Ali, who hails from Golaghat district in Upper Assam, is the first person from the Northeast to get elected to the post.

Ali said the NFB would also impart computer training and run several skill-development programmes for the visually impaired students of the region so that they can get gainful employment.

The NFB also has plans to set up a computerised Braille Press and Braille Library apart from a hostel for college students in Guwahati.

8220;There are a lot of programmes, including scholarships and rehabilitation schemes for the visually impaired. But people in the region hardly benefit from them because of lack of awareness about such programmes,8221; said Ali.

Governments and NGOs, too, have done precious little to bring such programmes to the Northeast, he lamented.