THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The deserted ground floor of the Kerala Federation of the Blind (KFB) at Kunnukuzhi bears testimony to the bad patch the institute has been going through in the recent times. Until a year ago the place was buzzing with activities as visually-challenged people visit the office to learn using computers, internet banking and ride-hailing apps with the help of the talking software. It was also a place frequented by the visually-challenged to check lottery results or for filling PSC application forms. 

Today the visually-challenged persons are left with no place to learn crucial skills in their lives thanks to the decision by the Social Justice Department to end financial support for ‘Insight’, a project executed by the KFB that operated on the ground floor of the two-storey complex. 
The six trainers in the institute had continued working there for almost two years without salary before they quit to eke out a living. 

The department alleged KFB of misappropriating funds for running Insight. But KFB has denied the allegations. “There were inspections,  including those from Gulati Institute of Finance, after Special Secretary of the department made the allegations. But they could not find anything wrong,” said former coordinator of Insight James Mathew. 
James has been with Insight since its inception in 2007. He has recruited talents from outside to develop proprietary software and tools such as substitute for Taylor Frame for doing mathematics. As the funds dried up all of them have left. He is now working as a product manager with a Maharashtra-based software company. 
Source: http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/2019/aug/26/govt-turns-a-blind-eye-to-insight-2024322.html