Monday, 21 November 2016
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Col Amit Roy, former Principal Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling: a homage 15 Nov 2016
On 13th November I read about the passing away of Col Amit Roy, former Principal Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling in New Delhi. Col Roy has left a rare and extremely courageous contribution toward empowerment of Persons with Low Vision, Vision Impairment & total Blindness.
My mind races to 1989 when Darjeeling was in the midst of Gorkhaland agitation, rampant violence and normal work was completely disrupted. He volunteered responding to our request to try and initiate a mountaineering training course for empowering Blind persons with body-confidence, independent mobility & group living at altitude. In October 1989 the first Special Basic course for the Blind was initiated at HMI reaching Dzongri La with courageous decision and perseverence of two persons: Col Roy & Mr Nima Tashi, thethen Deputy Director, Field Training. Rest became history.
How important was this course for the Blind was gradually borne out by several courses conducted for children & youth with loss of hearing, mental retardation and cerebral Palsy, evolved over the years till 2016.
In this blog on behalf of all persons with disabilities I take an opportunity to convey our heart-squeezed homage and following the HMI emblem "May you climb from peak to peak" we would pray "May your noble deeds remain immortal in history and continue to inspire others to overcome hurdles, physically & mentally".Sir, RIP
Hena Basu 15 November 2016
My mind races to 1989 when Darjeeling was in the midst of Gorkhaland agitation, rampant violence and normal work was completely disrupted. He volunteered responding to our request to try and initiate a mountaineering training course for empowering Blind persons with body-confidence, independent mobility & group living at altitude. In October 1989 the first Special Basic course for the Blind was initiated at HMI reaching Dzongri La with courageous decision and perseverence of two persons: Col Roy & Mr Nima Tashi, thethen Deputy Director, Field Training. Rest became history.
How important was this course for the Blind was gradually borne out by several courses conducted for children & youth with loss of hearing, mental retardation and cerebral Palsy, evolved over the years till 2016.
In this blog on behalf of all persons with disabilities I take an opportunity to convey our heart-squeezed homage and following the HMI emblem "May you climb from peak to peak" we would pray "May your noble deeds remain immortal in history and continue to inspire others to overcome hurdles, physically & mentally".Sir, RIP
Hena Basu 15 November 2016
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Monday, 24 October 2016
Center for Educational Technology (CET), IIT Kharagpur Extn Centre in Kolkata hosted an Workshop on digital tools developed by them for empowerment of Persons with Disabilities. Society for the Visually Handicapped participated there deputing Ms Sukla Roy & Mrs Annapurna Maruwada both IT professionals on 22 Oct 2016
Center for Educational Technology (CET), IIT Kharagpur Extn Centre in Kolkata hosted an Workshop on digital tools developed by them for empowerment of Persons with Disabilities. Society for the Visually Handicapped participated there deputing Ms Sukla Roy & Mrs Annapurna Maruwada both IT professionals on 22 Oct 2016. Above is a media coverage giving detail.
Center for Educational Technology (CET)
HC-7, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata
700106
Ph 033 23379793
Email TLC Group <tlciitkgp@gmail.com>
Nature Study Camp for Tribal, Rural, deprived Blind children of teagardens of north Bengal 2014 ( Societyfor the Visually Handicapped) project
Sunday, 21 August 2016
Blind students walk for books: Kolkata Book Fair
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