03 June,2009 09:00 AM IST | | Vivek Sabnis
Social worker sets up press in Kothrud so that the visually challenged can have easy access to reading material
Saroj Tole, a social worker serving the blind, launched an exclusive printing press for publishing books in Braille for the blind in Kothrud yesterday. "This is the first Braille printing press in Pune. The latest Win Braille software allows us to print books in Marathi, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil andu00a0 Kannada for the blind," said Tole.
She bought her new printing machine with Braille embossers from UK for Rs 2.45 lakh, and installed it recently with the assistance of software engineer Devendra Rakshe and language experts Jyoti Joshi, Mugdha Deshpande, Gauri Kale and Sushama Huprikar.
Hemangi Dhamne (15), a Std X student told this reporter that she was glad she could now read her study material in Braille.u00a0 Tole is displaying her 60 books in Braille at the Pune Book Fair at Ganesh Kala Krida Manch complex from Wednesday.u00a0
Tole has been printing the Braille version ofu00a0 Bhagwat Geeta, Guru Charitra, Tukaram Gatha and Anand Ovari, a famous Marathi play. Presently working for https://www.tukaram.com/, an exclusive website devoted to the life and works of the great Maharashtrian saint, Tukaram, Tole is uploading the Braille version of the saint's works translated in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi in Hindi on the Internet.
