ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta name="Description" content="We offer low-cost Braille and audio books"> <meta name="Keywords" content="Braille books, Braille alphabet, audio books, blind schools, income tax benefit, section 80G, section 35AC"> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Blind Persons' Association, A Premier Organisation In West Bengal</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <a name="top"> </a> <table border="0"> <tr> <td width="10%"> <img src="logo.jpg" vspace="5" hspace="10" align="middle" alt="Logo" width="125" height="125"></td> <td align="center"><strong>Blind Persons' Association</strong><br><br><em>The premier organisation of and for the sightless in West Bengal</em></td> </tr> </table> <div id="navigation"> <ul> <li><a href="#general">Skip navigation</a></li> <li><a href="history.htm">A Brief History of Blind Persons' Association</a></li> <li><a href="news.htm">Organisational News</a></li> <li><a href="tribute.htm">A Tribute to Louis Braille</a></li> <li><a href="sketch.htm">Chronological Sketches</a></li> <li><a href="charu.htm">A Tribute To Charu Chandra Bose</a></li> <li><a href="articles.htm">Various Articles on the Problems of Blindness</a></li> <li><a href="annrep.htm">Latest Annual Report of the Association</a></li> <li><a href="booklist.htm">Braille Books</a></li> <li><a href="audiolist.htm">Audio Books</a></li> <li><a href="scholarship.htm">Kamalendu Bhattacharya Memorial Scholarship</a></li> <li><a href="tax.htm">Income Tax Benefit for Donors</a></li> <li><a href="brl.htm">Learn Braille System</a></li> <li><a href="contact.htm">Contact Information</a></li> <li><a href="audiolist.htm#latest">Our Latest Release in Audio, Ashapoorna Debi's Pratham Pratishruti</a></li> <li><a href="news.htm#latest">Sightless Students Demonstration for Increase in Scholarship</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="general"> <h1 class="c1">Change of Address</h1> <p>We are delighted to announce that our Central Office at 10/2, Shamsul Huda Road, Kolkata 700017 is shifted on October 13, 2011 to the newly purchased flat near Goalpark. Please note our new address: <br><b>Blind Persons' Association <br>6B Panchanantala Road, 2nd Floor, <br>Kolkata - 700029 <br>Phone - 033-24605548</b></p> <p>We take this opportunity to extend our heartiest thanks to all our members and wellwishers whose unstinted patronage has enabled us to purchase this flat at a cost of Rs.24,50,000. We solicit all of you to visit this new office and encourage us with your suggestions.</p> <h1 class="c1">An Appeal for a Cancer Victim</h1> <p>Miss Mitali Ghosh, a seeing volunteer of our Association, is now fighting against blood cancer under the care of a government hospital in Kolkata. She is with us for about twenty years. She joined us when she was still in college. When we started a hostel at our Braille press complex in 1996, she became one of its inmates. Since then she has always been among us as a caring sister, doing whatever is necessary, from cooking to reading out loud and to data entry on a computer.</p> <p>Now she needs us in her fight against the dreadful disease. Her mother is not in a position to carry on the huge expenses for her treatment. We must extend our hands towards her as she did once. We appeal to all of you to donate to our Association for her treatment. For any query, please <a href="#contact"> contact us </a> without hesitation.</p> <h1 class="c1">Resource Centre for the Sightless in Kolkata</h1> <p><b>"Let us se the light of knowledge"</b> is our motto. Knowledge alone can compensate for the loss of sight. Blind Persons' Association has tried to spread this message among the sightless people. Without knowledge a sightless person cannot contribute to the progress of the society and attain true social recognition.</p> <p>When Professor late Nagendranath Sengupta <a href="history.htm"> started this organisation </a> with a few sightless youths in 1946, their goal was setting up a common platform for exchanging their views. The members of the organisation realised in the sixties that the main problem of the sightless people lies in the lack of identity in the society. Their quest for identity can never be fulfilled unless the sightless share social responsibility with their fellow-brothers. They urged upon the members to plunge themselves into social activities. At the same time, the organisation took upon itself the task of promoting education among the sightless solely relying on patronage of the common people. The organisation has so far established three blind schools, a spice production unit and a Braille press and library facility in different districts of West Bengal.</p> <p>We are planning to set up a Resource Centre as an extension counter of our existing Braille press and library facility to Kolkata to reach greater number of sightless students. Although the current Braille press and library project, Lal Bihari Shah Braille Academia, is nearing its completion, we feel that innumerable sightless persons living in or coming to Kolkata cannot fully utilize our facility on account of distance.</p> <p>We are proud to announce that we have purchased a flat at 6-B, Panchanantala Road,2nd Floor, (near Golpark), Kolkata  700029 for setting up a Resource Centre for the Sightless in Kolkata. We express our warmest gratitude to all our donors for helping us in this purchase. The proposed Resource Centre will contain a Braille books corner, audio and e-text library and various other services for sightless people. The location of the flat has good communication facility and it will be easily accessible to sightless people. We have shifted our central office to this address for the convenience of our members.</p> <p>The proposed Resource Centre will have unique facilities for the sightless people, e.g.:</p> <ul> <li>A Braille books corner for purchasing Braille books for Rs. 10.00 per Braille volume</li> <li>Audio books and e-text corner for purchasing cd for Rs. 10.00</li> <li>Reading services by voluntary readers</li> <li>Facility of free counseling services with practical help</li> </ul> <p>We believe, as we have developed <a href="contact.htm"> three blind schools and the ongoing Braille press and library </a> in different districts of West Bengal with your generous patronage, we shall be able to conduct the new Resource Centre. We still, however, rquire some fund, to renovate the flat and furnish it with necessary furniture and accessories for the Centre.</p> <h1 class="c3">Income Tax Benefit</h1> <table border="0"><tr valign="top"><td> <img src="building.jpg" alt="Braille Press Complex" width="320" height="240" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="middle"></td> <td>Donation to Blind Persons' Association is eligible for deduction from taxible income under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961 vide <a href="80g.pdf"> Order&nbsp;No.&nbsp;DIT(E)/3/82/8E/353/83-84&nbsp;Dated&nbsp;23.11.2011.</a> Donation made exclusively to the braille press project is eligible for deduction from taxible income under Section 35AC of the same Act vide <a href="35ac.pdf"> Notification&nbsp;No.&nbsp;S.O.&nbsp;2603(E)&nbsp;Dated&nbsp;14.10.2009.</a> Foreign donors may contribute to the fund of this Association under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 1976, and our Registration Number is <a href="fcra.pdf"> 147120718&nbsp;Dated&nbsp;26.08.2005.</a> </td></tr></table> <p>Cheques or demand drafts should be drawn in favour of <b>Blind Persons' Association</b> payable in any scheduled bank in Kolkata and may be sent to <br>Blind Persons' Association <br>6B Panchanantala Road, 2nd Floor, Kolkata - 700029.</p> <a name="contact"></a> <p>For any queries, contact <br>Shri Anupam Chakraborty (Secretary) on +91-9433525156, or, <br>Shri Sukanti Majumdar on +91-9432128493. <br>For details on income tax relief under Section 80G and Under Section 35AC, visit our section on <a href="tax.htm"><b>income tax benefit</b>.</a></p> <address>Last updated on February 3, 2012</address> <p> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"> <img src="valid-html401-blue.png" alt="Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional" height="31" width="88"></a> </p> <p><a href="#top">Return to top</a></p> </div> </body> </html>