Vodafone launches Sambhav Card on World Disability Day

Kolkata, Dec 3: Cellular service provider Vodafone Essar today announced launch of Sambhav Card, a prepaid scheme for the hearing impaired on the occasion of World Disability Day.

Designed to use the phone for SMS purposes, the scheme offers the customer 500 local SMS for Rs 151 a month.

A Vodafone team will also organise SMS workshops at institutes partnering with The International Deaf Children's Society(IDCS), India to educate the disabled on how to write and access SMS on their mobile phones, Vodafone Essar East CEO Sridhar Rao said.

" This product is specially designed keeping in mind the requirement of speech and hearing disabled individuals," he said adding there were 1.2 million such disabled persons across the country.

UNI