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.

The Spirit and enthusiasm wins........................

1st Raj Car Rally in Pink City on sunday 17th January made everybody a winner. This was the victory of ability over disability and a true demonstration of team work which will accelerate the movement for social inclusion for persons with disability.

AmbaLal and Vandana Tyagi bagged the first prize of the 1st Raj Car rally and AmbaLal received a 2 night 3 day packege from Clarks Amer group of Hotels to stay in Khajuraho at Clarks along with the winning trophy. CP Srivastava and Sitesh Verma stood second in the rally and CP Srivastava received one night stay package from Rajputana Shereton Jaipur.

State tourism minister with her navigator Prince badjatya being flagged off from Ashok Club. 43 cars participated in the first rally and travelled 70 Kms through the city and the rally ended at Desert Trail Kukas.

 Unicef State chief  Mr. Samule handing over the third prize and the best decorated car award to Deepak K Mina and Ritika Kasliwal.

Fortis group has extended free medical checkup at their Jaipur hospital to all the navigators.


More Photographs and news will be posted on the blog......



Thanks all the teams and organisations for making this possible.

sincerely,
the rally organizing team.

details of the rally

The first ever in jaipur “raj car rally with the visually challenged” is going to be held on Sunday, the 17th of January.
Since this is the first of it’s kind experience for the city, here are few details about the event for those who are interested to know.

Every time we help the blind cross the road, they put their 'faith' in us, but now, it is payback time and this rally is designed to ask us to put our ‘blind faith’ in their 'navigational skills' using a braille navigation chart.
The tulip chart (driving instructions chart) is given in Braille which a sighted person cannot read. So the visually challenged navigator reads out the instructions on the speed, directions, etc which guides the car thru the streets of jaipur to the finish. (something similar to World Rally Championship or WRC where navigators guide drivers, But WRC is considered an EXTREME SPEED event for SKILLED DRIVERS while the "raj car rally with visually challenged" is more a TIME_SPEED_DISTANCE rally.

Here is how the tulip chart reads... in brail... for e.g..

Speed change 0.00 to 3.50 Kms. Travel at 30 Kmph
0.00 Zero Odo at gate and turn left onto main road.
0.50 Traffic signal take left.
1.80 T junction take left
2.30 Turn right keeping Sangeeta Restaurant on your left.etc.

the key is that only those can success who put their trust on the skilled visually challenged person who is guiding the car.

A very interesting rally covers about 40 kms in pink city and helps several visually challenged people 'see' how we 'sighted' people react when we get lost or clueless as to where we are going.
In fact, the idea behind the whole event is more versatile as it showcases the abilities of visually challenged persons to the society and gives them a strong message to recognize visually challenged persons as a part of their community.

sincerely,
the rally organizing team.