Training centre for the deaf in shambles

BANGALORE:  From building infrastructure to power, water supply, training equipment and hostel rooms, everything seems to be ailing at the only Technical Training Centre for the Deaf in South India which is based at Haines Road New Bamboo Bazar, Bangalore.Pay a visit to the three-storeyed Technical Training Centre for the Deaf (TTCD),  a shabby dilapidated building with broken window panes, broken chairs, old table fans and worn out training equipment which have been there ever since the institute was established in 1982 welcome you.The land, along with building from where the TTCD is operating, is provided on lease for 50 years to Reach Out Educational Employment Trust for Disabled Under-privileged Women and Children by the BBMP.Of the 70 students (62 boys and eight girls) who have come from several States- Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, around  30 of them are staying in the hostel.A student said, “There was a short circuit at around 3.00 am on Sunday and since then there is a power shutdown. We have informed the managing trustees, but  nothing has been done.”“The window panes and most of the glasses are broken. During rainy season, the corridor and hostel rooms are flooded with rain. It’s a difficult task to drain the water and survive in the rainy season,” the students said.The 12 teachers working at the TTCD said, “Since the TTCD is aided by the state government, we are getting our salary. The trust is collecting a sum of Rs 5,000 every year but they are not getting enough training equipment. Once in a day, they get lunch from Isckon and have to cook food at other times.”