Miranda House sets up library for visually impaired students

The books will be uploaded this week on the college website.

Around 150 students from Miranda House have formed a repository of audio files consisting of 53 books to help visually challenged students. The repository of audio files covers everything from poetry, fiction and classics in regional language to help visually challenges students who cannot access readers or literary content easily. 

The books will be uploaded to the college website this week.

The project undertaken by National Service Scheme (NSS) volunteers was launched on Sunday; i.e. January 24, 2020, on the occasion of Girl Child day. As many as 148 volunteers read books by 20 authors in various regional languages including Bengali, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Telugu, and Punjabi in two months, the college said.

Rekha Kumar, a teacher at Miranda House who is also the programme officer at NSS, said the idea was conceptualized for visually impaired students who could not reach out to readers and writers due to the pandemic. “We wanted to ease their problems and that is why we create the audio library which they can access at any time as per their convenience,” she said.

Miranda House is one of the oldest and premier women's institutions under the University of Delhi. The institute along with other DU constituent colleges released its first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh cutoff lists for UG admission on October 10, 17, 24, 31, November 7, 28 and December 5, respectively. BA (H) Economics with 97.50 per cent turned out to be the course with the highest seventh cutoff 2020 in the General category. Candidates, who wish to apply for Miranda House admission, can check the cut off details mentioned on this page. Also, keep checking this page for the next cut off lists that are yet to be announced by Delhi University.

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