Trainings At TTI

PBMA’s Technical Training Institute has been established with the intent of empowering the visually challenged with knowledge and skills required to lead independent lives. We are always striving to revise and update our training programs and make them relevant to the needs of our students. Thanks to this on -going effort many of our students are today working as Accessibility Testers, Assistant Clerks, Customer Care officers, Managers, Trainers and so on in reputed Government/Private sectors or are successful businessmen or businesswomen.

About Our Courses

We offer number of industry relevant short term and long term courses that impart new employable skills and competencies to our students. Here are some of them.

  • Certificate in Basic Computing and Assistive Technology Learning. (CBCATL)

  • This is a full time course for learning basics of computers and using assistive technology in a day to day life. The CBCATL course is conducted at Fergusson College, Wadia College, SP College, DARE in Nagpur and VVP Pune. Students are awarded a certificate on successful completion of the course. The skills imparted in this course equip them to pursue a career in different types of industries.

    Course Details :-

    • Topics : Desktop Windows utilities, MS Office word, excel, PowerPoint, internet, Assistive technology such as JAWS NVDA settings configurations, etc.
    • Duration :6 months.
    • Eligibility : 10th or 12th pass.
    • Timing : 10 am to 5 pm.

  • Certificate Course in Accessibility Testing (CCAT)

  • One of the career options open to visually challenged student is a career as an Accessibility Tester. This course will upgrade your knowledge of computers and make you technology savvy.

    Course Details :-

    • Topics : Website, PDF, WORD, POWERPOINT, and EPUB Accessibility testing standards like WCAG, SECTION508, and ARIA etc.
    • Duration :6 months.
    • Eligibility : 12th pass / Graduate from any stream.
    • Timing :10 am to 5 pm.

Our Extension Centers

For the convenience of our students based across Pune, TTI has tied up with various reputed educational centers & NGOs and arranged to provide training facilities to all. Our extension training centers are at Fergusson College, Wadia College, S.P College and Ved Vasudev Pratishthan in Pune and TTI -DARE is at Nagpur.

Admission Process

The admissions process is conducted in June and December every year at the extension centers given above, while the courses begin in July and January.

Documents Required :-

  • Original Dissability certificate
  • 10th/12th/Graduation passing certificate
  • 5 color passport size photographs

Do you want to know more?

Contact Mr. Shantanu Ladkat

Mobile No: +919545025036

E mail ID: shan.ladkat@gmail.com

Success Stories

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Mr. Vivek Oak

Assembler

Working as an assembler in Minda Value Auto comp Pvt. Ltd. Nanekarwadi, Chakan since 3 years.

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Mr. Dhananjay Shingate

Insurance Agent

Presently working as Insurance agent. He completed his computer course in 2009 from TTI. He is successful and has his own 2 offices and car.

Leaders

Mr. Tukaram Sahadev Bamankar

The founder president of THE POONA BLIND MEN'S ASSOCIATION is Mr. Tukaram Sahadev Bamankar. Blinded since childhood he was educated in Bombay and took a course in physiotherapy. He later shifted to Pune,where he worked for several years at the Ruby Hall Clinic and the Jehangir Nursing Home. In 1952 he rented a small room for Rs. 30/- a month in the crowded Rasta Peth area, where the POONA BLIND MEN'S, ASSOCIATION was registered. Some years later, he was joined by Mr. Nanabhoy Mancherji Merchant, also visually impaired, who was designated as Finance and Development Secretary. He was responsible for raising resources for the Association, from a variety of fund-raising programmes carried out throughout the year. He expired in 1988. Mr. Niranjan Pranshankar Pandya, another visually impaired young man, but with a dynamic spirit and an indomitable will to serve, joined PBMA as Honorary Secretary in 1966. With initiative Qnd foresight, Mr. Merchant and Mr. Pandya helped in acquiring a plot of land at Hadapsar, where one of the largest workshops for the visually impaired in the country has been set up.

Events

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Fourthnight Poster

Fourthnight Poster opening Events

Consider the everyday miracle of nature -the growth of a seed. Planted deep into the soil and nurtured, it blossoms from a slender sapling at first, to a massive giant of the forest, with its spreading branches offering cool, green shade and welcome shelter to man and beast alike.


Such a seed, such an idea took root 42 years ago in the mind of a young man, Mr. Tukaram Sahadev Bamankar, blind himself, but blessed with an inner vision and a burning desire to bring to his blind brethren the light of knowledge and the skills to work.


He is the founder of THE POONA BLIND MEN'S ASSOCIATION (PBMA), established in 1952 in a tiny room at 82, Rasta Peth, Pune. Later, he was joined by two other visually impaired men, Mr. Nanabhoy Mancherji Merchant and Mr. Niranjan Prashankar Pandya. Together the team of three built up PBMA to its present structure and status.

			
            

Technical Training Institute of Poona Blind Men's Association


Dr. Helen Keller road, Ramtekadi, Hadapsar, Pune - 411041
+91 9545025036,-
91 020 6336433,91 020 6336568
shan.ladkat@gmail.com

The Poona Blind Men’s Association

Year of establishment: 1952 by Late. Mr. T.S. Bamankar

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  Dr. Col.(RETD) Madan Deshpande

      Trustee

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  Mr. Nitin R. Desai

      Chairman

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  Mr. Parvez Bilimoria

      President

Other Prestigious Projects Run By The Poona Blind Men’s Association:

  • Shankarsheth Sable Institute of Ophthalmology.
  • Laxmiben Rangildas Suratwala Institute of Ocular Surface Management.
  • Dharamsey Nensey Super Specialty Eye Care Institute.
  • Kamla Amul Massand Technical Training Institute.

The Poona Blind Men’s Association is extremely grateful to YOU for your valuable and steadfast support to the organization and for reposing trust and faith in our projects and services.

PBMA’S H.V. Desai Eye Hospital, which was set up in the year 2000, is providing ‘yeoman’ service to humanity, irrespective of colour, caste, creed and religion.

The Poona Blind Men’s Association is extremely grateful to YOU for your valuable and steadfast support to the organization and for reposing trust and faith in our projects and services.

  • H.V. Desai Eye Hospital: ““It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that since inception (January 2000) till March, 2018, PBMA’s H.V. Desai Eye Hospital has examined 39,56,415 lakh patients in the OPD and performed 4,89,814 lakh eye surgeries.””
  • Kantalaxmi Shah Eye Hospital: ““At our PBMA’s Kantalaxmi Shah Eye Hospital, Nandurbar, we have examined 6,12,474 lakh patients and performed 48,269 eye surgeries.””

Our inspiration and motivation comes from YOU.

Grocery material donated to Smt. Sharda Mohan Lokhande for her son’s Wedding on 10th June 2018.

Grocery material donated to Smt. Sharda Mohan Lokhande for her son’s Wedding on 10th June 2018.

Table Fan donated to Shri. Dhanendra Shah on 21st March 2018

Table Fan donated to Shri. Dhanendra Shah on 21st March 2018

Donation of Rs. 5,000/- for house repairs to Mr. Somnath Kamble on 2nd August 2017.

Donation of Rs. 5,000/- for house repairs to Mr. Somnath Kamble on 2nd August 2017.

Blankets provided to blind beneficiaries on their trip to Balaji Mandir in March 2018

Blankets provided to blind beneficiaries on their trip to Balaji Mandir in March 2018

We need your support, once again, hence…

“Your Support is our true Strength” "Our combined efforts will help to bring the visually impaired from darkness to light”

Yours in the service of prevention of blindness,
For THE POONA BLIND MEN’S ASSOCIATION.

The following items were distributed to Blind Beneficiaries in Kind in 2018.

  • Every month we distribute, 1. Wheat – 10 kgs., & 2. Rice – 5 kgs. to 216 blind families.
  • From April to August 2018, we have distributed extra ration to around 27 blind families.
  • In June 2018 we had distributed to 130 blind beneficiaries, 1. School / College bag with books, 2. Water bottle, 3. Lunch box & 4. Set of 5 gel pens. – The books provided to them is 30 dozen.

Medical aid provided to blind beneficiaries in 2018

Date Name Rs.
18-12-2018 00:00:00Pallavi BhalshankarRs. 64.000/-
27-12-2018 00:00:00Sharda Lokhande,Rs. 1000.000/-