The Blind School at Murlingar, operated by the Dhanbad Blind Relief Society, is all set to resume operations within a fortnight from July 1 with the help of Braille script installed on android mobile phones.

All educational activities and training has been suspended for the last 19 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cleanliness of the entire school campus of eight rooms, kitchen, caretaker's quarter and ground is also likely to begin within a day or two as per the instruction of Deputy Development Commissioner Dasrath Chandra Das.

Talking to The Telegraph Online on Wednesday, Vivek Upadhayay, Joint secretary of Dhanbad Blind Relief Society said, “We had a meeting yesterday under the Chairmanship of DDC, Dasarth Chandra Das during which senior officials of district administration including , District Social Welfare Officer, Sneh Kashyap, District Child Protection Officer, Sadhna Kumari, District Superintendent of Education, Indu Bhushan Singh and others were present during which we were asked reopen the centre from July 1 by making all necessary arrangements.”

“We are happy with the decision as the school which also has residential arrangements for 17 blind students from class IV to X is very close to our heart,” said Upadhyay and added that the school established in mid 60s at Nunudih near De Nobili School Digwadih at the initiative of then principal of School, Father Hess was the example of social service mission of De Nobili School.

“Each student of our school used to contribute 25paise per month from his pocket for the blind school and an evening school which were launched at the initiative of Father Hess,” said Upadhyay, an alumni of De Nobili School, Digwadih.

At present, the school, with a staff of four persons including two teachers, is operating from a community centre of Bharat Coking Coal Limited at Murli Nagar.

“Some of the students of the school are very good at singing and playing musical instruments and we have several musical instruments like harmonium, piano etc through which regular training in music is imparted by our teachers,” said Upadhyay.

DDC Dasrath Chandra Das said that since the blind school comes under the category of Child Care Institutions and all other Child Care institutions are operational, the centre is being reopened.

“For launching the education process immediately in conformity with the Covid protocols we have decided to provide Android phones to all the students and teachers so the Braille Software can be installed to launch education,” said Das.