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Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar : ウィキペディア英語版 | Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar
Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar, is a visually impaired Indian educationist, best known as the inventor of the braille code in Khasi. The Government of India honored her in 2010, with the third highest civilian award of Padma Shri. ==Biography== Bertha Gyndykes Dkhar was born in Shillong, Meghalaya as a visually challenged child suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, a disease which causes degeneration of the retina, and lost the eyesight completely while she was in college due to which she had to abandon her studies. Without means to support herself, she sold fruits in the market for a living.〔 Continuing with efforts to overcome the disability, Dkhar researched in Braille code and designed the code in Khasi, the local language in Meghalaya.〔〔 Bertha Dkhar is the headmistress of the ''Jyoti Sroat School'', a school run by the Bethany Society for the visually impaired children. She received the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri, when she featured in the 2010 Indian Republic Day honours list.〔 She is also a recipient of the national award for Child Welfare from the Government of India in 2000.
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