Braille Appliances Unit

The Brailler Maintenance Unit has the capacity to service nearly 100 braillers a month. Apart from providing maintenance services, the unit also provides short-term training course on Brailler Maintenance.

Blind students studying in various colleges are offered Brailler set up to period of their study without any charges.

Summary of Brailler machines repaired of various institutions and individuals since 2001 by us is given below:

Braille Book Production Unit

This unit produces Braille textbooks for standards I to XII. The capacity of the unit is more than 10,000 Braille pages per day with Braille characters embossed on both sides of the paper. The unique feature of this unit is that the Braille books produced contain tactually attractive diagrams. The Braille books are supplied to more than 3500 blind children studying in nearly 250 integrated and special schools. This unit also organises need-based services to other braille production units in the country. ‘Handy braille’, a user friendly software produced by the centre is supplied free of cost to braille production centres, where needed. Statistics of Braille books supplied to schools and individuals since 2001 by us is given below: