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NAB, with a mission to benefit the blind in every aspect
of life continues to extend the matrix of its services and
facilites through self-initated programs and activites.
Below is a quick record of previous year's performance by NAB.

NAB Sir J. Duggan Braille Press

NAB M.P. Shah All India Talking Book Centre

NAB Department of Rehabilitation

Education Integrated Programmes

NAB Prevention of Blindness

NAB Sir J. Duggan Braille Press

In the year 2001-2002 NAB Braille Press produced:

• 13 Titles in 4 languages
• 25,119 Number of Volumes
• 20,80,920 Number of Pages

In the year 2001-2002 NAB M.P. Shah All India Talking
Book Centre produced:

• 89 Students were imparted Training by NAB Department
  of Rehabilitation during the year under review
• 15 Students were trained in Physiotherapy

• Integrated Programmes were conducted for 383 Boys and 274
  Girls in 435 villages/towns, for 35 lakhs with the help of 70
  special teachers
• Visually impaired, 395 boys and 371 girls from 9 states were given scholarships worth Rs. 3,57,500
• 17 Jr. College students in and around Mumbai were given financial assistance worth Rs. 17,000/-
• 269 Boys and 168 Girls from 6 States were given sponsorships of Rs. 4,37,000/-
• 1180 Braille Kits were distributed in 7 States worth Rs. 8,85,000/-
• Subsidised Special Aids and Equipment provided to 525 individuals, 78 institutions from 13 States
• Spent Rs. 2,42,000/-, to conduct several courses for Man Power Development in which 176 participants from 8 States participated 
• 6 integrated camps were organised in 5 states at the cost of Rs. 1,22,200/- in which 74 blind and 62 sighted students participated
• Under Voluntary Braille Transcription Service 34 Braille Volumes comprising 12 Text Books and 4 Story Books were transcribed in Braille
• 35 students of which 26 boys and 9 girls suffering from blindness plus additional disabilities were provided special services to a Home-based Programme in and around Mumbai at the cost of 4 lakh
• Under National Project of Services of Deaf Blind Children sponsored by Sense Internation (I) 35 Deaf-blind children from 9 states were provided services
• In the CBM Finance Training Centre for the Teachers (Primary Level) of the Visually Impaired 13 Students were imparted training
• 17 Students were given awards for their meritorious performance in S.S.C. & H.S.C. Examination in the Mumbai Division Board

NAB Prevention of Blindness

• 3709 School Students and 1064 adults in Eye Camps
• Spectacles were provided to 2524 School Children and 483 in Eye Camps
• Since inception 6 years back, we have screened 145262 and provided spectacles in 11681 and medicines/ ointments to 1002
• 370 Schools covered and held 19 Eye Camps
• 30 cataract operations were covered up