PATNA: State health minister Mangal Pandey on Thursday said the government would provide all necessary assistance to visually impaired kids for their better future.
Addressing a function organised by Bihar Netraheen Parishad to mark World Braille Day, the 209th birth anniversary of Louis Braille, Pandey said, "The day signifies the importance of teaching and providing equal opportunity to blind people and highlights the problems faced by them. The government is aware of the problems and will provide all assistance to visually impaired kids for their better future."

General secretary of Parishad Nawal Kishore Sharma said the Braille system is a representation of letters and symbols within a grid in rows. "Louis Braille created the system after he went blind at the age of five due to an accident. The system has been very helpful in giving an opportunity to blind people to get education alongside their peers and be able to read at their impulses."

Sharma urged the government to increase the pension amount for visually impaired child from Rs 400 to Rs 1,000 per month. He also called for scholarship for the kids, upgradation of the Rajkiya Netraheen schools to senior secondary level, allotment of government land on 50% rebate and appointment of a disability commissioner, who is aware of law, in the state.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/minimum-assures-support-to-visually-impaired-kids/articleshow/62371159.cms