Established in the year 1944 by visionaries Smt. Anusuya & Sri. Umesh Basrurker, eminent freedom fighters and social workers, the Blind Relief Association, Delhi is a premier non-governmental organization in the country serving the visually impaired. Over seventy five years of its existence the Association has built up a complex of services managed by professional and skilled staff. In its green campus located prominently in the heart of national capital city of New Delhi, the Association is providing quality school education and conducting training programmes to prepare teachers for the visually impaired; running a range of vocational skill training courses in light engineering and other industrial trades; multi-skill training programme covering bookbinding/paper craft, candle making, packaging, sewing, chair caning, relaxation massage, making soap and cottage industry products etc; besides conducting computer training programmes for the visually challenged. The Association also provides counseling and direct help in employment to the visually impaired. The Association offers other services like as production of study material in Braille and audio recorded books for the visually challenged, either free or at nominal cost. The campus also has a hostel which houses nearly 300 children and adult students and trainees. The Association is constantly striving to ensure that persons with physical disability, especially the blind, are not marginalized due to physical impairment, and are rightfully integrated into the mainstream community as confident, equal and useful members of society.