Mitra Jyothi Computer Training Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Mitra Jyothi is a charitable trust founded in 1990 in Bangalore, India, by Madhu Singhal, who is herself blind. Alongside a Talking Book Library, Braille Transcription Centre and Independent Living Skills courses, the organisation runs a Computer Training Centre and a Placement Cell (established 1999) to support blind and low-vision adults into employment.
The Computer Training Centre was set up in 2005 with capital investment support from IBM. It runs six-month batches of around 20 blind and low-vision students, progressing from basic keyboard and screen-reader orientation to email, text editing and Microsoft Office use. Every trainee is automatically enrolled with the Placement Cell for job-search support after completing the course.
More than 1,000 people have been trained since the centre's inception. A dedicated collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has trained over 100 people, with more than half absorbed directly into TCS and the remainder placed at IBM, Cisco and other IT companies; the organisation received a Karnataka state award in 2010 for its disability services. These figures come from Mitra Jyothi's own reporting, corroborated by independent media coverage and Wikipedia, rather than from an externally audited impact evaluation, so placement rates should be read as self-reported.

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