Tech Mahindra inaugurates SMART+ centre for persons with disabilities

The SMART+ Centre inaugurated in Noida is a joint effort of the Tech Mahindra Foundation (TMF) and Noida Deaf Society (NDS) to work with the hearing and speech impaired youth and ensure their access and sustainability in undertaking livelihoods. This is TMF's first SMART+ centre in Noida aimed at making such youth financially independent, self-reliant, and thereby addressing their vulnerability issues.

After the overwhelming success of the SMART programme, the SMART+ programme was launched in 2013 to include Persons with Disabilities. A specially designed curriculum plus well-equipped classrooms enable effective communication in classrooms so as to enable Persons with Disabilities to learn. In the year 2018-19 SMART+ trained close to 1,477 (approximately) Persons with disabilities.