News Release-- January 07, 2003

CSC inaugurates audio recording centre at Sewa Mandir

Indore, January 04, 2003: On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, who invented the Braille script for the visually challenged all over the world, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) India Pvt. Ltd, inaugurated an audio recording centre at Sewa Mandir, school for special children. The facility was inaugurated by Mr. Rajesh Therani, Assistant Vice President of CSC’s operations in India, in the presence of the chief guest, Mr. Tapan Mukherjee, President, Electronics Complex Association, Indore.

As a pathbreaking concept, the audio centre aims at recording classroom lessons along with associated questions and answers, as per the prescribed syllabus and circulating these amongst the special children and their parents. Not only does this help the children to listen and grasp the subject better but it also enables them to comprehend and write the matter in Braille more easily. Audio cassettes of seminars on counselling, advice by experts, effective learning, teaching methodology, etc. will also be recorded to enable teachers, volunteers, social workers and parents to understand and respond to the needs of these special children, better. The centre will also record music and lectures by renowned doctors/experts that will benefit the children and their families and these will also be used to create awareness amongst tribal, rural and slum dwellers. CSC India has provided the centre with a public address system, stereo recorder with amplifier, mikes, headphone, stabiliser along with the basic furniture for the equipment and the room. The audio centre will be managed by Sewa Mandir, which is a school that has been imparting formal and informal education to visually, speech and hearing impaired children since 1921.

CSC India is one of the leading IT services companies in India and operates out of its state-of-art facilities in Indore and NOIDA. Its spectrum of services includes consulting, systems integration & outsourcing. The company has developed domain expertise in property and casualty insurance, banking and healthcare and has recently also entered the BPO arena. CSC India is growing at an amazing rate of more than 70% since the last two years and has ambitious plans for the future. Development of the society is an integral part of the company’s philosophy and through its social service committees, CSC India implements various community development projects on a regular basis.

CSC India is currently involved in a large number of social projects including adoption of three villages Nayagaon, Sagarpaisa and Lalpura, establishing a basic computer education facility at Government Hindi Middle School No. 8, establishing an art and culture centre at Sewa Mandir, organising blood donation camps and providing street lights, medical facilities, primary & adult education.

“CSC India is delighted to be associated with Sewa Mandir and dedicates this audio centre to all the visually challenged children in Indore. The development of special children and their absorption into mainstream society is a goal that CSC India passionately works towards in various ways and is ever willing to support the local community of Indore to do so,” said Mr. Rajesh Therani at the inauguration.

CSC India is a fully owned subsidiary of California based Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which is one of the world’s leading Information Technology services companies. It reported revenues of $11.4 billion for the 12 months ended Sept. 27, 2002 and has 65,000 people worldwide. For more information, visit the company’s web site at www.csc.com.