Extracts from Progress of Education in India, 1937–1947: Decennial Review [Sargent Report], Vol. I (Central Bureau of Education-Ministry of Education, 1948), 155–160, 165–170, 231–240, 295–308

The Lighthouse for the Blind is a co-educational institution started specially to provide facilities for the education and training of the adult blind. The Calcutta Blind School at Behala provides instruction from Primary to High School stage and prepares students for the Matriculation examination. The Calcutta Deaf and Dumb School is important owing to its Teachers’ Training Department where teachers from different parts of the country come for training in the methods of teaching the deaf. Bihar and Madras have schools for children whose parents are afflicted with the heritable disease of leprosy. The Central Advisory Board of Education took up the question of an All-India Braille Code for the blind in 1941 and appointed an Expert Committee for the purpose. The Braille Committee has since designed a Uniform Braille Code for the major Indian languages and its use has been recommended by the Government of India for all schools for the blind in India.