A

Social Project Report

On

“Working of Social Organisation, National Federation

for the Blind, Maharashtra”

In the Partial Fulfillment of

MBA-I Programme

Submitted To

University of Pune

Under the Guidance of

Prof. Dr. Manish Deshmukh

J.D.C. BYTCO Institute of Management Studies &

Research, Nashik.

Submitted By

Harshit Pahade
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I have pleasure in successful completion of this work titled “Study
of Working of Social Organisation, National Federation of Blind
Maharashtra”
The Special Environment at J.D.C. Bytco Institute of Management
Studies and Research that supports educational activities facilitated my
work on this project.
I acknowledge the support and encouragement extended for the
study by principal Dr. Mrs. A. A. Verulkar.
I am very much thankful to Prof. Dr. Manish Deshmukh (Social
Project Guide) for his encouragement and guidance for project work. It
would not have been possible for me to complete this work without his
suggestion and support on every part of the project.
I greatly appreciate the motivation and understanding extended
for the project work by Mr. Hiraman Tile Head of NFBM and the staff
who responded promptly and enthusiastically to my request for frank
comments despite of their congested schedule.
I express my gratitude towards parents who encouraged me to
extend my research with their help and support, I have been able to
complete my work.

Harshit Pahade
 CONTENT
Sr. No. Particulars Page No.

1 INTRODUCTION

2 ORGANISATIONAL PROFILE

3 RESEARCH & METHODOLOGY

4 DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

5 FINDINGS

6 SUGGESTIONS

7 CONCLUSION

8 ANNEXURES

BIBLIOGRAPHY
 CHAPTER – 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 INDIAN BLINDNESS SCENARIO

1.2 EDUCATION FOR BLIND
1.3 OBJECTIVES FOR DOIN THIS RESEARCH

1.1Indian Blindness Scenario

India is the home to the world’s largest number of blind people.
India has the population of 15 million blind people out of total blind
people population of 37 million in the world, What’s more Worse than
this that 75% of these are cases of avoidable blindness, this is because
of acute shortage of country’s optometrists and donated eyes for the
treatment of corneal blindness, while India need 40,000 optometrists, it
has only 8,000.
On the other hand, while India need 2.5 Lakh donated eye every
year, the country has 109 eye bank (5 in Delhi), can not collect 25,000
eyes, 30% of which can’t be used.
According to Ajeet Bhardwaj, outgoing president of Asia
Pacific optometrists organization, India has 12,000 ophthalmologists,
who have no time to conduct blindness, preventing surgeries because,
they are fleeded with general eye check up of patients according to
Bhradwaj,
“For India, it is vital that opthalmegists focus on surprise and
optometrists take charge of primary eye care refractive errors like
presbyopia, contact lenses. This is how the most developed
countries managed to control and eliminate avoidable blindness”.
It was also taken into notice that 153 million people in the country
require reading glasses but do not have access to them. Optometristors
are eye physicians concerned with vision care eye diseases and
prescribe eyeglasses, contact lenses and medications to treat eye
disorder.
An opthalmogist specializes in surgical care of the eyes. India has
just 20 optometry schools, which produce first 1,000 optometrists
annually as against 17 million people being added to the population
during the same period.
India has just 1 eye surgeon per 1, 00,000 people.
Also shortage of donated eyes is becoming a huge problem. As of
the 15 million fund people in India, 3 million, 26% of them are children
suffer due to corneal disorders. But only 10,000 corneal transplants are
being done. Every year due to shortage of donated eyes.
The union health ministry has already launched a national
programme to control blindness and expects to reach the blindness
elimination target of 0.3% by 2015, five years before the WHO deadline
of 2020.

Causes of Blindness
It relies on the interaction between the brain and the eyeball, two
extraordinarily complete organs, so its hardly surprising that there are
so many ways in which we can suffer loss or reduction.
Sometimes babies are born blind, but most people become blind
later on many older people lose their vision from macular degeneration.
Some people become blind through accidents. The three most common
causes of blindness today is Glaucoma, contracts and diabetic
retinopathy.
Diabetic Retinopathy is caused by the damage to the small blood
vessels in the retina at the back of age of 45 million people worldwide
who are blind around 1.4 million are children under 16. The vast
majority of childhood blindness happens before the age of five-a period
when 75% of learning is through sight.
Also there is a cause of trash one linked to extreme poverty and
poor sanitation.
India is a developing country. There a cutthroat competition out in
the professional corporate World, so blind people can’t just simply
depend upon the normal people for their survival. Because of all the
problems of a developing country, there is a need for blind people to
step forward, learn the academics, so that they can be independent in
the future.
1.2 Education for Blind
Try this out Blind yourself for a second and the very instance your
world will come to a standstill, now imagine blinds were to stay closed
forever.
In India, there are 22 blind males and 28 blind females in every
1,00,000 population. The number of the blind in India is estimated to be
13 million and this is a growing figure.
The plight of people with vision impairment become so terrible
that street begging and dependency on others become the only means
of survival for many, especially those without adequate and appropriate
education during their childhood that would enhance their capability to
lead dignified life and help them to earn square meal.
The goal of education is to prepare the students to participate in
society and for most people, vision is fundamental to learning. But what
happens when a child has visual impairment. Limitations on the ability
to receive information from reaching effects, including on impact on a
child’s ability to understand, learn language move about freely with
confidence and develop in a variety of ways. For this reason, the
families and teachers of children with usual impairment use alternative
means and strategies of teaching them to read, write, interact socially
and perform various daily tasks.
The nature and degree of their visual impairments are equally
diverse, as are the ways they adopt to their vision loss. Some students
have other disabilities in addition to visual impairments. Their level of
academic functioning a great range and in everyway they are as
disparate as any other group of individuals I terms of ethic and social
background, religion, geographic location ad income. Given this
diversity, it is important to remember that each child needs to be viewed
as on individual with unique needs.

Evolution of Education of Blind

1. In primordial times, there were asylums for the blind. These

asylums were like shelters made exclusively for the blind people. It
acted as on institutions which provided elementary educational to the
blind. This practice dates back to thousand of years.
2. The 19th century witnessed the introduction of elementary

education for the blind people by USA. Britain followed suit by

incorporating the elementary education act in their education guide,
which stated were entitled to compulsory elementary education.
3. The New York point and Braille were the two basic dot method of
providing education. But in the course of time, Braille emerged as a
winner I the war of dots. This was a, much better method of using
dots and dash to teach the blind.
4. The 20th century brought about a new amendment in the system.

A number of residential school started having separate support cells

for the education of the blind. A number of students were attending
these schools but this number dropped considerably after the
introduction of the ‘white cone’ which distinguished the blind from the
normal.
5. In the 21st century, the number of blind schools for the visually

unpaired dropped up. These schools have both normal teachers is I

any other school and a professional team who handles optional
training like orientation and mobility training etc.
 Today we get to see revolutionary ideas and methods in this type
of education resources integrated to provide the blind with the much
required education so that they can live on independent life.
The Braille system, developed by Louis Braille, who herself was a
blind person developed this, so that other blind people can learn to read
and write in 1821.
The Braille system is an method widely used by blind people to
read and write and was the first capital form of writing each Braille
character or well is made up of 6 dot position, arranged in rectangle.
Containing 2 columns of 3 dots each a dot may be raised at any 8
position to sixty for (26) possible including the arrangement in which not
dots are raised.
For reference purpose, a particular permutation may be described
by having the positions, where dots are raised the position being
universally numbered 1 to 3 from top to bottom, on the best and 4 to 6
from top to bottom on the right.
For Example:- Dots 1-3-4 would describe a cell with 3 dots raised at
the top and at the bottom in the left column and on the top and at the
bottom in the left column and o the top of right columns i.e. the letter M.
The cues of horizontal Braille text are supported by a space much like a
visible printed text. So that the dots of one can be differentiated from
the Braille text above and below punctuation is represented by its own
unique set of characters.
 CHAPTER – 2

ORGANISATIONAL PROFILE

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF BLIND,

MAHARASHTRA

2.1 NFBM (OF THE BLIND, FOR THE BLIND, RUN BY THE

BLIND)

2.2 MANAGEMENT OF NFBM

2.3 OBJECTIVES OF NFBM

2.4 SOURCES OF FINANCE

2.5 FUTURE PLANS

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF BLIND MAHARASHTRA

Logo

“OF THE BLIND”

“FOR THE BLIND”
“RUN BY THE BLIND”

“What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place
where you are and without that you might not exist. You could be
no where at all”

-Barbora Kinpsolver
2.1 Introduction to NFBM

NFBM (National Federation of Blind, Maharashtra) is one of the

premiere registered social organization, which is “of the blind”, “for the
blind” and “run by the blind”.
It is struggling to strive for equality of opportunity for te blind in
their education, training and employment. It has several schemes and
projects in the offering by the federation for the upliftment of our fellow
blind brother especially those stay for away within the state of
Maharashtra through our branches, units and service centers. It is the
single largest self helping democratic organization of the blind
representing 7 to 8 lakhs visually handicapped (VH) people of the
Maharashtra State. Its head quarters are at Mumbai.

NFB Maharashtra
R. K. Samiti, Gandhi Chowk,
R.S. Road, Vile Parle (West)
Mumbai – 400 056
Tel/Fax – 022-26140916
Email – nfbmah@gmail.com
The NFBM runs the following institutions and schemes located at the
following centers,
 Jagruti School for Blind Girls-Alandi, Pune
 Vocational Training and Rehabilitation Center, Nashik
 Industrial Vocational Training and Rehabilitation Center,
Aurangabad
 Braille Transcription Unit, Mumbai
 Braille Book Library, Mumbai
 Braille Jagruti Magazine, Mumbai

Major Activities Undertaken by NFBM

 Placement Service
 Self Employment Aid
 Medical Aid
 Educating the Blind
 Legal and Guidance Counseling
 Student Aid
 Vocational Training

Branches and Units are located at

 Amravati
 Aurangabad
 Chalisgaon
 Jalna
 Nagpur
 Nashik
 Pune
 Sangali and Solapur
 The main objective of National Federation of Blind Maharashtra is
training, employment and rehabilitation of blind persons.
The Federation is running various institutions for the welfare of the
blind. The educational and vocational Academy for the blind is involved
in applied research is the filed of aids and appliances for the blind. It is
also involved in organizing training programmes and conducting teacher
training courses for the blind. The organization also has a residential
school for the blind children and a vocational training workshop
imparting training in various vocational skills to blind adults community
based rehabilitation programmes for the rural blind are also
implemented by the organization.
Education, Training and Rehabilitation are three most important
necessities to a blind individual for betterment of his/her life. There are
about 60 schools available in Maharashtra for the education of the blind
and unfortunately not more than 3000 blind children are taking
education is these schools having this into consideration NFBM started
Jagruti School for Blind Girl on 4th January, 1989.
The school is situated at Alandi Devachi near Pune. At present it
houses 147 Blind Girls most of them are from rural areas of Pune,
khandesh, Marathawada and vidharba. This school being residential in
not use the facilities provided is free to the students, the cost of which
include lodging, boarding, education and medical assistance. Obviously
the expresses for which hostel and school premises, the school staff,
food, medical and other miscellaneous expenses are borne by the
NFBM itself.
Recently the school has been recognized by the government of
Maharashtra on partial grant basis. Regular academic coaching is given
to children here along with the provision for learning extra curricular
skills like vocational training, craft, sport and cultural skills. Home
science and music classes are specialties of the school. This school
offers after which the students are shifted to the integrated school at
Sant Dnyaneshwar High School at Alandi Devachi.
2.2 Management of NFBM
The renowned organisation National Federation of Blind
Maharashtra has a great Work to do and many activities to look after.
There is always a need of proper management to run such kind of
social organisation.
Efficient management leads to effective running of organisation to
achieve great results.
Effective management is required for NFBM, as it a large
organisation, covering several schemes and projects for the upliftment
of blind people, who stay in the state of Maharashtra through our
branches, units and service centers.

Office Bearers

President : Mr. M.Y.Gurav

General Secretary : Mr. V.S. Hegde
Treasures : Mr. H.M. Bhalerao
Vice President : Mr. R.M. Amrute, Mrs. R.H. Bhagat,
Mr. D.N. Thakur
Honorary Advisor : Mr. B.Z. Kanarkia, Mr. V.D. Mehta
Ms. V.V. Gokhale

President, General Secretary, Treasurer are blind themselves, so

the organisation goes very true to the line,
“Of the blind”, “for the blind” and “run by the blind”.
2.3 Objectives of NFBM
NFBM is the single largest self helping democratic organisation of
the blind representing 7 to 8 lakhs of visually handicapped (VH) people
of the state of Maharashtra.
It has been conceived as a unique and education and skill
development center with a view to develop and enhance the career
potential of the visually handicapped beneficiaries.
NFBM has following aims;

 To provide accommodation and care to visually impaired

persons and multi disabled persons with visual disabilities in the
supported living and working environment.
 To improve the quality of life of visually impaired and other
older persons by providing full time caring services within a home
environment.
 To offer employment opportunities to visually impaired
persons, as well as promoting independence through job
placement.
 To develop human resource potential of visually
handicapped.
 To provide exposure to trainees on state of the art VH
compatible reading technology.
 To develop world class students.
 To develop a spirit of entrepreneurship in VH community.
 To enable senior citizen access for benefits of auto reading.
 To create a unique public reading facility for the benefit of
nearly 2,500 colleges going visually challenged students.
 To transparency generate funds according to “Donor Bill of
Rights”
2.4 Sources of Finance
Finance is the lifeblood of any organisation. Finance is required at
every step of working.
NFBM has promoted the Jagruti School for blind girls at Alandi,
this school project aims at serving the deserving visually challenged
girls belonging to rural areas. They also have to credit a Braille book
production center in Pune. A Braille transcription unit at Mumbai and a
vocational training center at Nashik and Aurangabad. Moreover, they
also have scholarship scheme which provide financial assistance to
deserving students. It believes in achieving equal status by enabling the
visually challenged through education, employment and
entrepreneurship.
Being a charitable organisation, it runs on donations received
from the public. All donations to NFBM are exempt under section 80G
of the Income Tax Act and are entitled to avail 50% exemption.
The programme for donation of NFBM is called as,

“SAY YES FOR A CAUSE TODAY”

Sr. No. Cause Cost
(RS.)
1 General Donation Any
Amount is
Welcomed
2 Corpus Fund 1,001
3 Sponsor for One Meal a Day 2,500
4 One Meal a Specified Day every year 25,000
5 Sponsor uniform and shoe for one child 1500
6 Aids and Appliances fund (Braille Book/ Paper/ 2,500
Slates)
7 Dattak Palak Yojana (Partspousor a child) 5,000
8 Integrated Education (Secondary student) 5,000
(Reader, Writer, Educational Tape, Cassettes
and other educational appliances)
9 Full Sponsor a child for 1 year (DPY) 10,000
10 NFBM Scholarship Fund 10,000
11 NFBM Rehabilitation Fund 15,000
12 Memorial/Sponsored Award Fund 25,000
13 School Development Fund (Infrastructure 50,000
Development, Research Development,
Vocational Training, Preplan for VH Sports &
Recreation)
2.5 Future Plans
NFBM is a non profit organization whose goals is to promote
social, economic and educational opportunities for the blind. It looks
forward to establish 2 projects in the future;

Model School Project

NFBM proposed to undertake the construction of a model school along
with a rehabilitation center for excellence for providing quality education
and training to the visually challenged.

NFBM Pride
This is to establish a network of public reading information
determination and education PRIDE centers. By doing this, NFBM can
develop the spirit of entrepreneurship in VH community, also it would
create a unique public reading facility for the benefit of nearly 2,500
college going visually challenged student NFBM pride has been
conceived as a unique education and skill development center with a
view to develop and enhance the career potential of the visually
handicapped beneficiaries. NFBM pride will located at

Block Nos.12, Neheru Stadium, Swargate, Pune (The NFBM Pune

Office)
Office size would be approximately 200 sq. feet.

Appeals are made to people so that they donate and with this
donation, it would be really easy for NFBM to bridge up the gap
between their ideas and their achievements.
 CHAPTER – 3

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Research Methodology refers to the tools which have been used

for collection of information for project purpose.

Primary Data
To collect primary data, following methods were used,

1. Observation Method:-
The vocational center, “National Federation of Blind Maharashtra”
was visited four times. I saw the blind schools, its infrastructure,
management office, rooms for children, dinning room, recreation
rooms, garden, also amenities available to the children was
witnessed. By this, I learnt the routine life of children studying there.

2. Questionnaire Method:-
Different Questions were asked to the children staff members in
the Blind School. The questionnaire was designed to obtain overall
knowledge of work culture of the blind school. This method was very
successful and helpful as well because, each set of questions as a
series of levels are deeper than the last one. Good responses were
received from the residents.
 3. Interview Method:-
Children were interviewed to know their view about the blind
school and also the social worker working there. Mr. Hiraman Tile,
the head was interviewed; he was very soft spoken, calm person, but
this method tool lot of time and energy.

Secondary Data
NFBM (National Federation for Blind, Maharashtra) is considered
one of the most reputable social organization, striving so hard for
educating the blind people. It conducts rehabilitation, educational
and awareness programme as well, so it has good brochure, giving
detail about its existence, activities and management. Also it has a
website www.nfbm.org. It has developed its own information network
and directions of institutes and individuals for helping hand in case of
need. Even the walls of blind schools, the photos, creative charts
hug up there give details about highest donors and their analyzed by
me to convene the requirement of various research objectives.

Objectives of Research
People affected by blindness just need an opportunity. Blind
people today are working as farmers, lawyers, secretaries, factory
workers, nurses, data operators, child care workers, social worker,
computer programmers, teachers, professors, banker, accountant,
stock broker, journalist, HR managers etc.
If you believe that they can do the job and if the employer believes
he can, there are very few jobs, blind people cannot do.
 It is most important for blind people to have the chance to choose
whatever job they want and for the public to give blind people the
opportunity. For this education upto 10th is critical and important. This
critical job of education is done by blind school. So I choose National
Federation for Blind, Maharashtra (NFBM), a non profit organization
whose goal is to promote social, economic and educational
opportunities for the blind. The objectives of this research can be
clubbed into;

• To study the process of learning of blind people.

• To study how blind people can actually make them independent.
• To understand the work culture of NFBM.
• To know how education is imported to visually impaired person.
 CHAPTER – 4

ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETAION OF

DATA
4.1 Analysis of Questionnaire
NFBM is a non governmental institute and is a state level
organization and has its branches in cities like, Nashik, Pune,
Aurangabad and Mumbai. Nashik Center is meant for vocational
training of girls (blind). This center was built in the memory of “Late
Manghandas L. Mane” and “Late Tulsidas L. Mane”. This centre was
established on 1st January 2006.’
Blind students from various nearby areas come here to acquire
their training students are provided free education accommodation and
food through donations. Hence, only a minimum number of selected.
The institute also selects girls who have skills and capabilities to
undergo this training.
The training has duration of 1year. The training starts from typing
and then to the computer course. With the help of GEO software which
is a sound generating software.
They also get training for MSCIT (Maharashtra State Certificate in
Information Technology) for 6 months. Even periodical norms are
conducted for the some to check the level of understanding and also
the ability to perform the operations.
NFBM Nashik regional unit at KrishiNagar, Behind HPT College
has the infrastructure of typing classes, Computer Laboratory,
Dormitory Dinning Hall, The Oriental Classes, recreation room, Braille
Library Garden area to room about etc.
Daily Routine of Children

5.00am Wake Up
8.00am Breakfast
9.00am Classes
12.00noon Lunch
1.00pm – 5.00pm Class
5.00pm Prayer
6.30pm Dinner
7.30pm – 9.30pm Recreation
9.30pm Bed Time

There is limited staff of teaching, there are two teachers for

computer training and one teacher for typing. The head of NFBM,
Nashik regional unit is Mr. Hiraman Tile.

The achievement of NFBM lies in the achievement of students.

Three students from NFBM stood first in MSCIT Exam.

Teaching Pattern
“To be blind is not miserable, not able to bear blindness is miserable.”

John Milton
Learning Through Alternate Senses
Personal bearing and conduct are specially emphasized. It is not
enough to work hard to achieve academic and curricular goals. Every
child has no learn to stand erect, speak clearly, confidently and politely
and complete element on Childs innate ability to learn and his
enthusiasm to be some independent at an early age. It is ensured that
he acquires the skills, support and empowerment to negotiate his own
unique steps towards independence.
Parental involvement is encouraged to minimize separation
anuiety and elecit support in weaning the child from dependence to
independence family tied is sustained by regular weekend visits.

Mobility
It is a comer stone of independence. For the visually unpaired,
mobility is more than clutching a white cone. It is the honing of an
internal antenna to group physical hurdles and work their way around
them. More importantly it is emotional and mental confidence to be
afraid of unseen. Before a visually impaired child can walk down a
corridor across a classroom to a desk or reach out of a afraid to move in
a physical environment mobility is about formalization and orientation of
the child to move about in any space only after a child feels comfortable
in physical space can be embark on a safe, stress free and fearless
journey.

“What we (Sighted People) take for granted in overcharging

branches and footpatern obstructions are a serious obstacle for
the visually impaired.”
 Children with low vision are given technical aids such as
magnifying glasses. Large print text and tables tops to optimize use of
their residual vision.
No learning can occur without dedicated staff. To teach the
visually impaired, teachers require sensitivity imagination and vision.
They learn to simplify paragraph, to innovate and adapt effectively to
every learners unique situation.
Students over here viewed teacher and as friends and role
models and many return to join NFBM as faculty members.
Adding to the teaching reservoir, it is the steady group of talented
volunteers who have stayed with the NFBM from a long time, volunteers
contribute their own preferred skills, ranging from academics (including
text books), ophthalmic surgery to pediatric care, music/weaving,
pottery, ceramics, drama, dance etc.

Recreational Activities
Recreational activities include playing of any musical instruments
like tabla, flute, mouth organ and harmonium. Even some mind games
are also played by children to increase their learning ability and to make
their memory sharper. Education, sports, fire arts and recreational
activities are introduced to enable talent to be expressed and nurtured.
Goals are set through careful appraisal of the child’s emotional and
physical health, intellectual maturity and functional dexterity. In-house
games like carom and chess are enjoyed by them. Girls are also giving
training in home science into co-curricular activities includes
participating with the sighted people in essay and elocution competition.
 Daily schedule for al students is fixed, as it eases the operations
and maintains discipline.

Amenities of Children
These students are provided with all the facilities. No care taker is
provided as they are supposed to become self sufficient in everything
they do as they grow up. They are provided with the breakfast, lunch
dinner and separate beds to sleep. They are also provided lockers,
consumables and educational facilities like Braill books, Radio, tape
recorder, commercial education as teaching musical instruments,
singing classes etc. Games like carom, chess for blind, singing balls,
see saw, swing etc. Materials required are taken from the sources,
local merchants, materials required for daily activities are procured from
local shop as per as requirements materials are accepted in the form of
donations.
Also materials are accepted in the form of dry ration and not in
ready to eat forms. This is very god, as it takes care of quality of seed
and eliminates the risk involved in taking cooked ready to eat food as a
donation.
The mission of the blind school is just to provide their
students with the skills sets to enable them to live their lives in the
sighted world.
Empowerment of Children
At NFBM, the children get educational prevocational, vocational
training as well as benefit from cultural activities, art, craft, the
interaction with society through the school. It also offers the children
opportunities to perform in front of members of public in various
domains, singing, dancing etc to increase their confidence level. NFBM
enables these children to become responsible individuals despite their
disability NFBM recognize that every child is different and that each
requires specific education. It tries to analyze each case from start to
determine the most appropriate way to empower each child.
Examples are given always to children to motivate them for
competing in the sighted world.
Examples of Andea Bocelli is given whose eyesight was lost when
she was of 12 years in a football accident, she emerged as a
multinstrumentalist and sung with the great operatic singer as Pavarotti.
Also Franklin Delono Roosvelt, he was a 32nd president of USA,
famous president in the history, even he suffered several disabilities
including vision impairments.
And greatest example of all, Louis Braille who accidentally
stabbed himself in the eye becoming blind from this injury. He was the
inventor and designer of Braille writing which enable blind people to
read from a series of organized bumps.
Empowerment of Parent
Parents either neglect their disabled children or on the contrary
overprotect them, however both these attitudes are wrong differently
abled children should be treated as normal children. So always NFBM
tries to motivate the parents to make the children responsible. The
literacy of parents, their economic conditions and their social
background are all important factors, which can all play a huge role in
the children’s personal development either positive or negative.
Children come from different backgrounds and all have their own family
circumstances.
The parents’ motivation to support their child depends on all these
factors. Families need to be co-operative and they need to follow
instructions given by trained professionals.
Families need to get aid of the old traditional backward thinking
accordingly to which their child cannot be part of the community
because of his/her disability. Therefore, they must first accept that they
have a disabled all the support he/she needs including medical and
educational support. It is the only parent’s responsibility to make their
children speak and to look after them as NFBM can only help and
provide guidance.
 CHAPTER – 5

FINDINGS

“What we (sighted people) take for granted is overhanging

branches and footpath obstructions are a serious obstacle for the
visually impaired.”

After being those blind students for such a long time, the major
findings of mine are as follows;

 Blindness is the complete lack of form and light perception. Most

people believe that we see with our eyes. The fact is however that it
is in our brain that perceives, what we think, we see. There are
famous blind personalities like Franklin Delono, Rosevelt, Louis
Braile, Morla Runyan, Andea Boceli etc, who charged and shaped
the world in many areas such as music, politics, science, arts,
literature, sports because they refuse to allow their external light
perception to quench or Stigler their inner light. The world has been
illuminated by their courage and talent. As, this turned out to be most
beautiful lesson of my life, as this true spirit of facing the world can
be seen in the students of NFBM (Nashik Regional Unit) as well
because, they never accept the fact that they are different from the
sighted people.
 Children learning is the blind school are really given good food
and accommodation facilities, clean and hygienic environment is
maintained there.
 Complete stress is given on the overall development of skills of
the student.
 The sense of satisfaction and gratitude can be witnessed on the
face of every student.
 Immense patience are required for teaching the technical details
of the course to the students, however the staff members, volunteers
also enjoy god time with these students
 CHAPTER – 6

SUGGESTIONS

“There is a condition worse than blindness, is seeing something that

isn’t there”
Thomas Hardy

After visiting the blind school, so many times, here are some
suggestions, which would help to improve the scenario for educating
the blind people, these are as follows;

1. NFBM should start a call centre training programme for students

for imparting self employment skills in changing industrial
environment.
2. Also the computer courses, which suits the need of the industry.
3. Improvement in the system can’t be enough by enabling the
payment of donation by providing e-payment option.
4. To organize more community programme by blind person so as to
serve the students.
 Develop self confidence among the students
 Create a sense of responsibility towards students by the
community.
5. Also to initiate a career counseling sessions to guide the students
to help them have a better and independent life.
6. NFBM is constantly working at improving and expanding its
activities. But for this it needs support of funds. It needs more fund to
well as to buy new equipment, in particular to provide computer for
the training of students (including repairs and maintenance of the
computer). NFBM also requires more trained professionals. But the
low pay offered makes it difficult to attract qualified staff.
7. Nashik vocational center has a limited intake of students; however
some of the population of fund people is still deprived of education,
so the intake capacity should be increased.
8. Better infrastructure is needed for the comfort of students in
Nashik regional unit.
 CHAPTER – 7

CONCLUSION

With the analysis of all the information, it can be inferred that,

education and blindness has included evolving approaches and public
perception of how to best address the special needs of blind students.
The practice of institutionalizing the blind asylums has a history
extending back over 1,000 years but it was not until 8th century that
some authorities created schools for them, where blind children
particularly the more privileged one were usually more educated in such
specialized settings. But with charging times, new institutes come up for
“just” training. Such institutes like NFBM started providing training
(vocational and adaptive) as well as granting in academic subject
offered through alternative format literature.
NFBM rightfully uses the combination of necessary training
tailored to the unique need of each student and solid academics is
going a long way towards producing blind and visually impaired
students capable of dealing with the world independently, as well these
beneficiaries come from the severely discarded segment of society,
which deserve support.
 CHAPTER – 8

QUESTIONNAIRE

1. What is the goal of NFBM?

2. When was Nashik regional unit of NFBM was built and under
whose memory?
3. What is the intake of Students?
4. What is taught to them?
5. What is the duration of their training?
6. What are the facilities available to the students?
7. What is the daily routine of the students?
8. How many faculties are employed?
9. How are the blind students trained?
10. What is the teaching pattern followed by the teachers?
11. What are the facilities provided to the low vision students?
12. Which recreational activities are carried out of NFBM?
13. How was NFBM empowering the students?
14. Do they feel demoralized? If yes, how are they motivated?
15. What infrastructure is available for children?
16. Do their parents come to meetthom?
17. How does NFBM empower the blind child’s parents?
18. What message does NFBM give to the people (parents)?
THE TYPEWRITER ROOM

THE COMPUTER ROOM

 STUDENTS WITH THE FACULTY

ONE OF THE FACULTIES

WALKING WITH THE HELP OF EACH OTHER

 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Web-Site

1. www.nfbm.org

2. www.wikipedia.com

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