Sunday, January 17, 2010

and finally, it happened!

It born, planned, executed, and finally, it happened!
The first ever in jaipur, “raj car rally with visually challenged” has been successfully completed.
A dream that a few organizations and indivisuals have saw together, a plan that a team of dedicated people worked together, an event where all the people walked together, this whole day was a day of wonder in the brains of jaipur ights.
It all started from ashok club with flag off by prominent people like commissioner of disability, mr. khillimal jain, the renowned businessmen, mr. Rajeev arora, president of eyebank society of rajasthan, mr. ML Mehta, and lot others.
There were 43 cars which did run on the roads of city, right from the ashok club to hotel desert trail, passing all the busy roots of the city like hawa sadak, ajmeri gate, sodala, vashali nagar, malviy nagar, Gandhi nagar, MI road, badi chopar, chhoti chopar, chora rasta, johri bazaar, joravar singh gate, and lot more.
In fact, the attraction was visually challenged navigators who have guided their sighted drivers with the help of the root chart in their own language of communication called Braille.
The amazing part in the rally was that both the visually challenged and sighted participants were those who are prominent in their fields.
While a RAS officer was navigating a car, one of the cars had been driven by honorable turism minister of rajasthan mrs. Beena kak.
While drivers were doctors, army officers, businessmen, polititions, etc, navigators too were software engineers, managers, administrators, professors, poets, writers, musicians, ETC.
It shown to everyone around, that being blind does never hinder the path of success, it’s the sightlessness that’s the only difference.
Everyone including drivers as well as spectators have realized that the visually challenged persons have immense capabilities to do the things, it’s just that the method of doing may differ.
The whole idea was to get the people assorted with visually challenged persons and let them understand their capabilities, which definitely worked out.
The prizes were distributed to the winner in a function at desert traille by chief secretary of rajasthan, mr. shrinivasan and event sponsors.
It was great to organize the event in the city of pink, jaipur, and those who have participated have definetly grabbed a golden memory forever. stay tuned here for more on the event.

Sincerely,
The rally organizing team.

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