Netraheen Vikas Sansthan
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Netraheen Vikas Sansthan (Jodhpur Blind School) is a residential school for the blind at Jodhpur
in Rajasthan
state of India
. It provides free education to blind boys and girls with boarding and lodging facility. It was established in 1977.
It provides following facilities:
Jodhpur
Jodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital, Jaipur and from the city of Ajmer. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, the capital of the kingdom known as Marwar...
in Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
state of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It provides free education to blind boys and girls with boarding and lodging facility. It was established in 1977.
It provides following facilities:
- Residential school for the blind up to 12th class
- Hostel facility for boys and girls
- Teaching through BrailleBrailleThe Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write, and was the first digital form of writing.Braille was devised in 1825 by Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman. Each Braille character, or cell, is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two...
- Provision of library and reading room
- Training by trained teachers in music
- Computerised mini-Braille press
- Special arrangements for cultural activities
- Facilities for medical and health checkups
- Scheme of industrial training for self-employment
- Arranging tours of cultural and historical places