LUCKNOW, Jan. 5 -- On World Braille Day (January 4), Dr Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University inaugurated a Braille Library housing around 4,000 books, becoming Uttar Pradesh's first state university to have a dedicated library for students with visual impairment.

The Braille library has been set up on the first floor of the Swami Vivekananda Central Library on the campus. "Our library is multi-storeyed, and for the convenience of visually impaired students, we have dedicated an entire floor for around 1,600 students pursuing higher education in various courses," vice-chancellor Acharya Sanjay Singh said while inaugurating the Braille library section on Sunday.

An official said the new section houses over 4,000 Braille boo...