An orientation programme on Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) Odia tool was inaugurated by Deputy Director for Welfare of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) Ashok Kumar Behera at the VRC for Handicapped (VRCH) campus, Gandamunda here on Friday. The NVDA Odia tool is an e-speak software which can read the Odia text written in Unicode fonts seeing on the screen of a computer. The programme is being organised by the VRCH, Directorate of PWDs, Directorate of Mission Employment, local NGO ISWAR and National Association for the Blind (NAB), New Delhi.
At the inaugural event, VRCH Assistant Director RK Sharma gave welcome address. ISWAR general secretary Sanyas Behera gave a brief introduction on the training programme and emphasised on involvement of more and more IT companies for education and empowerment for visually-impaired through their CSR activities. The training will conclude on April 29. later, chief guest Behera distributed certificates to 22 physically-challenged trainees of the VRCH for successfully completing computer training under the Mission Employment Programme.