As you may recall, in the year 2012, our Secretary General Mr. J.L. Kaul was honoured with the Louis Braille Medal” by the World Blind Union for his signal contribution to the promotion of Braille at the global level. The year 2017 began with Mr. Kaul receiving another honour for his lifelong dedication and commitment to the Braille promotion, this time from a premier organization from Gujarat.

 

Pragya Chakshu Seva Kunj is a grass-roots organization in Gujarat started by a visually impaired couple—Smt. Muktaben and Sh. Pankaj Dagali. The organization has done cutting edge work for the blind impacting the lives of a large number of visually impaired in Gujarat. On 29^th January, 2017, this organization honoured Mr. Kaul with the Louis Braille Award, consisting of a citation and a sum of Rs.100000.00 (Rupees one lakh only) for his nearly fifty years of hard work and tireless efforts towards the promotion of Braille in the country and at the global level. While it is a befitting start of a year for a man who has dedicated his entire life to the cause of the visually impaired facing untold hardships and a man who enters his fiftieth year of his work for the visually impaired and seventy-fifth year of his life, the award would help to once again validate the primacy and relevance of Braille, something which is questioned at times these days.