Mumbai: Reliance Foundation Chairperson Nita Mukesh Ambani launched India's first registered national Braille newspaper in Hindi in association with CNN-IBN's Real Hero Swagat Thorat on Monday.
It was Real Hero Thorat's dream to print India's first Braille newspaper in Hindi, and Reliance Foundation made his dream a reality. Nita Ambani launched 'Reliance Drishti' with Thorat as the chief editor, lighting up the lives of the blind and giving them their dose of the news.
"It was at the CNN-IBN Real Heroes last year when the recipient was Mr Thorat, he had a Marathi newspaper in Braille, but I thought why not start a nationwide paper, and reach out to more," Nita Ambani said.
"I had a Marathi newspaper for the blind and many people used to come to me and ask me to start a Hindi edition, it was my dream to start a Hindi paper, and Reliance has made that come true," Thorat said.
The Hindi Braille newspaper was launched at Kamala Mehta School for the blind.
Nita Ambani who has already pledged to donate her eyes made it a point to go and meet all the students and encourage them in her own way.
Reliance Drishti will be a fortnightly paper consisting of 14 columnists. It will be distributed free of cost to approximately 300 blind institutes across India.
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