Digital Books for the Visually Impaired

National Institute for the Visually Handicapped is located in Dehradun, and was established in 1979 by upgrading the National Center for the Blind. It was registered as a Society in 1982 under Societies Registration Act, 1860, under the administrative control of the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.

The Institute has its regional center in Chennai to provide rehabilitation services in the southern states of the country. It renders vocational training at par with NIVH. It also provides rehabilitation services to the rural-based visually handicapped persons through its Community Based Rehabilitation activities.

It is possible to convert books into Braille provided there is a capacity for printing books in adequate numbers.

During 2001, information pertaining to disability 'In Seeing' was collected which included 'blind' as also persons with 'low vision'.

As per Census 2001, the estimated number of children with disability 'in seeing' in the age group of 5-19 is 27, 74,145 and out of that 15, 89,954 children are attending educational institutions.