NEW DELHI: State-owned power major NTPC on Thursday announced that it has started an Information Technology Centre (ICT) at the Department of Disability Studies in Gauhati University.
The aim behind this training centre is to encourage students with disability to pursue higher education in the field of science and technology, the power firm said in a statement here.
“It is a memorable day as this centre shall help differently abled students to pursue higher education in science and technology,” Assam’s power minister Mr Pradyut Bordoloi said while inaugurating the centre on Wednesday.
Mr Bordoloi said the ICT centre would serve physically challenged students of our society helping them in capacity building by offering vocational courses through latest softwares and equipments available at the Centre. “We have about 21 million differently abled population in our country, they need to be trained and groomed and urged Corporates to come forward to contribute to this noble cause,” he added.
The Centre will have computers with several assisted devices and software to enable visually challenged students to use computers, the statement said. NTPC Foundation in its endeavour to empower the physically challenged and marginalised section of society was set up in 2004. (UNI)
