<span style="color: #222222;">The world Braille Day is being celebrated today. The day is marked remembering the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, the inventor of Braille – for the people with visual disabilities. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Louis Braille was born on 4th January 1809 in the town of Coupvray in northern France. At the age of just 3, he lost his both eyes in an accident. This resulted into the invention of the of 6 dots- which is popularly known as braille .</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">United Nations observes the first official World Braille Day today raising awareness on the importance of Braille for approximately 1.3 billion people living with some form of distance or near vision impairment. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">World Braille Day is marked annually on January 4 after the day was proclaimed by the General Assembly last November, as a means of realising fully the human rights of visually-impaired and partially-sighted people, and bringing written language to the forefront as a critical prerequisite for promoting fundamental freedoms. Around the world, 39 million people are blind, and another 253 million have some sort of vision impairment. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">For them, Braille provides a tactical representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols so that blind and partially-sighted people are able to read the same books and periodicals printed as are available in standard text form. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) cites Braille as a means of communication; and regards it as essential in education, freedom of expression and opinion, access to information and social inclusion for those who use it. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Series of functions have been organised in Gujarat on the occasion of the world Braille day. The half part of today evening regional News bulletin of All India Radio – Ahmedabad will be read live by Krishnabhai Thakar- a visually challenged teacher in Primary school.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Our Ahmedabad correspondent reports that Regional News Unit of AIR Ahmedabad is pioneer in live Radio news reading by blind person in India. The first such news bulletin was read by Mr. Ranchhod soni- a teacher's of Blind People's Association – whose name was recorded in Limca Book of world records for reading first live reading of braille news bulletin. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to 16 years long tradition of RNU – Ahmedabad, the second half of five minutes of 10 minutes evening news bulletin is being prepared in Braille with special typewriter. After some rehearsals, blind person- deputed by Blind Peoples Association- Ahmedabad is reading it live- along with regular news reader of AIR. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The aim of this initiative is to spread awareness among the society about the plight and cause of the people with visual disabilities.</span><br />'' <br />''