Braille

For 28 years, Meera Badve’s Niwant Andh Mukta Vikasalay has empowered visually impaired individuals to thrive independently. With their new app, Swalekhan, they are helping students take exams, without relying on scribes.

Driven by her passion for making a difference, Sabriye Tenberken, a blind individual from Germany, founded 'kanthari,' a training institute in Kerala. Through Kanthari, she empowers people from various backgrounds to start NGOs and create impactful social change globally.

Lack of teaching facilities restrict visually-impaired from pursuing education. This device and mobile application makes self-learning easy.

Rejected by hostels for being blind, Rahul Deshmukh has opened digital libraries, computer classes and even a hostel that have benefited thousands of intellectually-challenged and visually-impaired students.

“We were shocked to realise that even well-educated visually-challenged adults would not have a clear idea of maps - we wanted to go a step higher than that."

Opting out of their job placements, the IIT students behind this brilliant product chose to "make the Braille laptop accessible to the millions who were previously uncatered to". #IIT #Inclusive #Innovation

Interestingly, one of the brains behind this awesome project also runs ‘Sparshdnyan’, India’s first Marathi Braille newsletter!

After completing his graduation in 1994, he first attempted to crack the UPSC. One attempt turned to two, and two turned to four attempts. To no avail.

Students from The Galaxy School created braille numbering in elevators of residential apartments in Rajkot, and are on a mission to demand infrastructural support for India’s blind population.

From Disability Coordinators at all levels to sign language windows in training modules, Election Commission is going all out to make Indian polls a lot more inclusive!