At Sealdah, keeping track of train movements, separated travellers or even sounding simple alerts are six visually-challenged persons who come to the aid of the commuters, making nearly a thousand announcements a day on an average.
Trained at Narendrapur Blind Boys academy and Calcutta Blind school - Arup Chakraborty, Ranjit Choudhury, Dilip Bala, Pradip Dey, Polly Bhattacharya and Manju Basak are the members of this announcement team at Sealdah, which functions from the control room of the divisional railway manager. Middle-aged, some married and with grown up children, these Eastern Railway employees work together with their colleagues, doing the same hours, and refuse special treatment.
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As part of its golden jubilee celebrations, Ramakrishna Mission Blind Boys’ Academy presents an evening of classical music featuring tabla-tarang by students of the Academy, vocal music by Bishnudeb Chakraborty, and a jugalbandi by Amlan Halder (violin) and Saumya Adhya (sitar). Also, felicitation to Pandit Manilal Nag and Swapan Gupta.
When: July 15 at 7 pm
Where: at Ramakrishna Mission Blind Boys’ Academy, Narendrapur, Vivekananda Centenary Hall
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The Ramakrishna Mission Blind Boys’ Academy may soon throw its doors open for candidates from categories other than the visually-handicapped. A special clinic for the low-vision disabled is also in the wings. Sunilbaran Pattanayak, academy principal, told Newsline that since its inception in 1957, the academy has been offering its services only to the blind. Considering the requirements of the day, however, the academy is now getting ready for starting training programmes for handicapped in the other categories as well.
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