World Braille Day

                       Initiatives for Visually Impaired Person      

• National Association for the Blind – It aims to make approximately 10,000 pages of documents of government schemes and legal reliefs, accessible to persons with visual disabilities.
• National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities (NIEPVD) (Divyangjan) – It works in the field of visual disability for the education, training, rehabilitation & empowerment of persons since 1943.
• Model School for the Visually Handicapped (MSVH) – It imparts education to children from the Bal Vatika to senior secondary level.
• Braille Development Unit – Contribution to the development of Braille Codes in different Indian languages.
• National Accessible Library – To provide learning materials in various accessible formats Braille, large print, audio and E-pub.
• Braille Production – NIEPVD infrastructure for printing Braille textbooks and magazines.
• It infrastructure comprises the Central Braille Press established in 1951, the Regional Braille Press established in 2008 at Chennai and 25 other Braille Presses established by the Government.
• The Braille literature in the following 14 languages, that include Assamese, Bangla, English, Garo, Hindi, Khasi, Kannada, Lusai, Nagamese, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil and Urdu.