The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally installed a lift at the Mahalaxmi Municipal School building. The Shraddha Charitable Trust, which runs a training centre for the autistic and mentally challenged, believes that the move is likely to encourage more students to come to the school.

Set up in 1999, the trust had been trying to convince the BMC to install the lift for six years. The centre teaches autistic and mentally-challenged students to create artistic articles and utility objects such as paper gift bags, jute and canvas bags and floating flowers. Their aim is to inspire students to feel useful and confident in spite of their disability. They currently have 45 autistic and mentally challenged students, all over the age of 21.