In a step towards empowering visually impaired persons in Himachal Pradesh, National Federation of the Blind is all set to open a school in Shimla.

The school, which was approved by the National Federation of the Blind, shall be opened in Rohroo area of Shimla, an official said.

In north India the Special Blind Schools are already working in Kapurthala in Punjab and Ambala in Haryana, and now Himachal shall have its own school for blind, Kuldeep Singh Thakur, Vice President of National Federation of the Blind said.

Before approving the project a survey was conducted in the state about the number of such children and facilities being given to them, Thakur said.

In Himachal blinds are being kept along with other physically disabled children in schools at Sunder Nagar and Shimla, he said.

This school for blind shall have modern hostel, brail education backup and talking computers to make them technically fit, Thakur said.

Federation shall also ask the companies working in the state to help in establishing this school, he said.