thiruvananthapuram lipinraj rank holder in the civil service examination held last year and selected to the indian administrative service and prof l unnikrishnan hod economics department st berchmans college were initiated into braille and talking computer learning at the chakshumathis vidhyaramabam initiation into the world of letters for the blind and print disabled at the regional institute of ophthalmology in all 11 visually impaired people including nineyearold aparna wrote their first braille letters on monday german national sabriye tenberken founder braille without borders handheld visually impaired learners at the vidhyarambam with the talking computer methodology learners started using computers and typed hari sree in malayalam language and heard what they typed by using espeak a multilingual speech synthesizer lipinraj wants to pursue his studies and career with assistive technology prof unnikrishnan said he wants to help blind and print disabled students and looking forward to set up a daisy and assistive technology enabling centre at the economics department of st berchmans college with the support of many distinguished alumni of the department including cardinals mar george alencherry cardinal mar baselios cleemis archbishops joseph powathil mar joseph perumthottam and chief minister oommen chandy the centre will play a pivotal role in helping brilliant blind and printdisabled students to excel in this world chakshumathi is a premier organisation involved in teaching and empowering blind and printdisabled people with the aid of computerassistive technology and provides free rehabilitation and guidance services to blind children and people with lowvision