Braille Mitra opens gates of knowledge in Pune
The special software and hardware, developed by city-based Modular Infotech Pvt Ltd to aid the visually handicapped to learn 11 Indian languages and read. multiple books.
A special software and hardware, Braille Mitra, has been developed by city-based Modular Infotech Pvt Ltd to aid the visually handicapped to learn 11 Indian languages and read multiple books. Braille Mitra can store up to 2,000 books when converted into Braille. It is useful for libraries, where several visually handicapped people can access a large repository of 2,000 books simultaneously per instrument. Another software launched by the company provides assistance to the blind in learning correct Marathi. All books, authored by the well-known scholar on the subject, Arun Phadke, have been converted into Braille and saved in Braille Mitra. The company’s directors, Raghunandan and Meena Joshi, demonstrated the use of their Braille reading system for Marathi to students at a press conference recently. A pioneer in Indian language software technology and development, Modular Infotech has developed a novel system by which the books and guides for Marathi can be used as teaching aids. Even a fully visually-impaired teacher can hold forth on the nuances of Marathi.Phadke, who has developed the content and teaching process of the Marathi system, demonstrated the teaching process through a 100% visually handicapped woman, Siddhi Desai. Residing in Thane, 22-year-old Siddhi is currently pursuing her Masters in Economics and Statistics at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, and is doing internship at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Meena Joshi said converting complex Marathi teaching books into Braille is easily and correctly handled in a few minutes by Modular’s well-proven Shree-Lipi Braille software.
The company has appealed to all schools teaching Marathi, to benefit from the Marathi courses conducted by Phadke and has also appealed to publishers of Marathi books to make their books available to the blind to open the gates of knowledge to them.Modular Infotech has offered to convert the books into Braille free of charge and makes them available to institutions for the blind and visually handicapped individuals.