Kolkata: Alipore zoological garden, the  country’s oldest zoo, is going to install boards carrying  names and descriptions of animals in Braille to help  visually challenged visitors.
Zoo director Subhankar  Sengupta announced the decision after he met a group of  visually challenged students who came to visit the zoo for  the first time on Wednesday. “We have planned  Braille boardswith names and details of animals at  every cage

The bird and reptile cages will soon have the boards. The zoo is already equipped with wheelchairs, specially designed ramps and toilet facilities for disabled visitors.

Chandrima Ghose (13), a student of Louis Braille Memorial School in Serampore came to visit the zoo with her friends. She said, “If the boards were in Braille we would have easily read the names. It is always a great pleasure for us to read it on our own rather than being prompted by others

The zoo director said, user-friendly pavements and new ramps where needed were being constructed. “For the Braille  boards we are consulting experts working for visually challenged persons,” he added.

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