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An Indian Language Dictionary in Braille Form for the First Time. An Initiative by Cre-A:

The Cre-A: Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil (Tamil-Tamil-English) 2008, has now been published in the Braille form. Initiated by Cre-A: and funded by Cognizant Foundation, the conversion of the Cre-A: dictionary to its Braille imprint was undertaken by the Madurai-based Indian Association for the Blind (IAB), a not-for-profit organization in the service of the visually challenged.

Cre-A: provided a free license to IAB. To enable the conversion, an editable electronic version of the dictionary, which is normally shared with institutions with interests in lexicography and allied fields at a price of Rs. 4 lakh, was given to IAB, free of cost.

The initial activities for the Braille edition have begun. The entire project of producing 40 copies of the Braille version was completed in February 2011. The cost of producing these 40 copies was Rs. 11 lakhs. This entire production cost was met by the Cognizant Foundation, the CSR arm of Cognizant, the global IT major. Cognizant Foundation has been supporting several projects in the areas of education and healthcare, across India.

The Braille edition of the Cre-A: Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil was distributed free of cost to all the 20 schools for the visually handicapped in Tamil Nadu and to 20 organisations that have persons visually challenged. At a function held on 25.02.2011 at madurai, Mr N. Lakshminarayanan CEO, Cognizant Foundation distributed the copies.

“Each page of the standard print dictionary has become 6 pages in the Braille edition. So the Braille dictionary has about 8400 pages and published in 53 volumes”, says Mr. Jinnah, Founder and Secretary General of IAB.