A mobile application aimed at creating job opportunities for talented youth with visual impairment and developed by students of Vellore Institute of Technology University was launched by Dr G Viswanathan, Founder and Chancellor of the premier private institute on Friday.
The mobile application, Project Envision has been developed by student members of a club in the institute which was started last year. To create adequate job opportunities for the visually impaired students and also to make their life better, Enactus, an organisation, has been functioning all over the world with student chapters in colleges and higher education institutions. These chapters functioning in the universities are called Enactus Students Club. In VIT, the Enactus Students Club was started last year.
In Tamil Nadu alone, there are an estimated 7 lakh skilled people who are visually impaired. However, among them, only 10,000 manage to get jobs. As part of their attempts at creating job opportunities for the visually impaired youth, the Enactus Students Club along with the Centre for Sustainable Rural Development and Research Studies (CSRD and RS) of VIT created this mobile application.
Speaking at a function to mark the launch of the mobile application, GV Selvam, Vice President, VIT said that the student members of Enactus Students Club were pioneers in the welfare of skill development of visually impaired youth and that their work was worthy to be emulated and he appreciated their efforts.
In his address, Dr G Viswanathan said that it was heartening to note that through this mobile application, visually impaired youth in Vellore district would receive training about tele commerce. By creating such job opportunities, the country would prosper, he added.
