ABU/AICB Braille Press Set up in 1997 with assistance from the Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted, also assisted by the Swiss Umbrella Association of the Blind, the Press today is the largest Braille printing house in the country with many notable accomplishments to its credit :-
Equipped with three high-speed Braille embossers, each producing Braille at a breath-taking speed of 400 characters a second.
Produced 1150 Braille titles running into 268186 volumes and 212185136 pages.
Provided school textbooks in Braille at the cost of print books, to students in States of Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, with support from Amway Opportunity Foundation a social wing of Amway India Enterprises.
Made accessible to the blind, National Book Trust Publications in Braille in various languages at a price less than their print editions.
Beginning July 2004, undertaken a new project of providing blind readers about 100 titles in English and Hindi under the sponsorship of SKN, a Holland based donor agency, at one-fifth Braille production cost.
Brings out two bi-monthly Journals in Hindi and English (Jigyasa and Braille Digest) containing articles from popular print magazines and also making available three monthly mainstream children magazines and one fortnightly children magazine in Braille free of cost to 100 schools and Braille libraries for the blind under the sponsorship of SKN, Holland.
Braille and Recorded Books