Software engg builds organisation to help poor & visually-impaired

Siliguri: A software engineer has started an organization to help visually impaired people and boost their mental power.

Jitendra Jangra, a middle-aged man has named the organisation — 'The wisdom of mind' where he has served nearly 400 blind people for free in the past six years.

His project constitutes of different brain exercises which help visually challenged people to strengthen their intuition so that they can relate to different colours, letters, words and even sentences.

Jangra, started off with social work after leaving his job at Chitkara University in Chandigarh, where he was working as a professor of technological sciences. He demonstrated on a student of class 5, Sidhdharth Sharma, in Siliguri on Tuesday, who could read the lines without looking at the paper that was given to him during the demonstration procedure.

Jangra, the one-man army, runs the association free of cost for the visually handicapped and poor people.

While for private institutions, he has a few co-workers appointed under him, who are paid salaries based on different projects.

"I am doing this to help the needy who cannot avail the expense of curing their eyesight and remain uneducated. We help people to build themselves," stated Jangra.

Institutions like Matrichaya in Matigara have a few blind students who, without family support, are being helped by the association.

Jangra conceived the idea in June 2017 and work started off in the early months of this year.

At present, teams from the Army and Airforce are being trained by the association that might help them in their field work.

The upcoming projects are being executed in schools for the blind students in Kalimpong and various other parts of Sikkim.

"There is an uncountable potentiality in human brain. I am trying to help people so that they use these potentialities which are often not known by the common people," believes Jangra.