Amba Dalmia Resource Centre
College for Women, University of Delhi
Facilities
Miranda House has expanded its existing Amba Dalmia Digital Resource Centre (ADDRC) in partnership with Help the Blind Foundation (HTBF). An MoU was signed between HTBF and Miranda House for this expansion. As part of this expansion, 25 state-of-the-art computers have been installed in the center with the contribution of NIIF-IFL, Infrastructure Financing. The aim of this center is to empower visually impaired (VI) girl students by imparting them skills focused on Education, Mobility and Employment Training (EMET). The expanded center will be known as 'Empowerment and Skill Development Centre, an Augmentation of ADRC'. The center will accelerate the learning of digital literacy and technical skills for visually impaired students of Miranda House under excellent and integrated guidance. Certainly, this step is an excellent example of collaboration between education and social organizations which will make a significant contribution towards realizing inclusive education and skills.
Amba Dalmia Digital Resource Centre for Visually Challenged provides an enabling environment and state-of-art assistive technologies to the visually challenged members of Miranda House community. First of its kind at DU, ADDRC was established within the library premises on the ground level with an endowment of Rs. 5 lakh from alumna and then faculty member Dr. Manju Kapur Dalmia in 2005-06. The college also expended funds and continues to invest generously in its infrastructure, academic needs and manpower requirements. The Library organizes a special Orientation Programme for the visually challenged students. This supplements the efforts of Lakshita, the Enabling Society. In addition to the Desktops with assistive software like Jaws, Safa, Lekha, and talking typewriter, printers and audio recording equipments it has a Braille Embosser and Lex Scanner. The ADDRC has more than 1000 books and magazines in Braille for ready reference.