World Braille Day is celebrated across the globe on January 4 every year.
This day marks the birthday of Louis Braille, who invented the Braille script and was born in France in 1809.
The United Nations has designated January 4 every year as World Braille Day. World Braille Day has been celebrated since 2019.
World Braille Day is celebrated to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication for the human rights of blind and partially sighted people.
Braille is a universal code rather than a language. It is a tool to write and read Sanskrit, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Spanish, and other languages.
Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number.
Braille script is the only way through which visually impaired people can live a dignified life.
On this day, the National Federation of the Blind organised a program to mark World Braille Day in New Delhi.
On the occasion of World Braille Day, various national-level competitions like Braille script reading, Braille writing, and debate were organized for visually impaired students across the country.
The winners of the competitions were also felicitated on this occasion.
