very good evening sir.i am jayagowri ph d research scholar and also a visually challenged person.i want your contact number to discuss with you so pls send your contact number for me sir
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 6:58 PM, Prashant Naik <pran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Visually impaired Assistant Collector wins against all odds > > By Anilkumar T| Express News Service | Published: 30th May 2018 06:10 AM > > KOCHI: Either one can blame ones fate and resign in life or one can take up > challenges head on and become a winner against all odds.Visually impaired > Pranjal Patil chose to do that latter. By doing so, the 30-year-old from > Ulhannagar in Maharashtra, proved that challenges can’t come in way if one > were determined to win. Patil, who aced in the Union Public Service > Commission (UPSC) with a rank of 124, took charge as the Assistant > Collector of Ernakulam on Monday. > > According Patil, challenges made her more strong. “If we are worried about > our physical challenges we can’t achieve anything in life. Though I am > visually impaired, I was never worried about it. There are always ways to > be successful in life. What we need is to concentrate on our determination > instead of our challenges,” Patil told Express on Tuesday. > > Pranjal, who was born with a weak eyesight, lost her vision completely at > the age of six when her eyes were exposed to direct sunlight. “My dream was > to become an IAS officer. Though I it was a big jolt to lose my eyesight, I > was not ready to give up on my dreams. I focused more on the dream and > finally, I achieved it,” said the young IAS officer sitting in the lobby of > Ernakulam guest house. > > Though Patil cleared the UPSC in her first attempt in 2016, she could only > secure 773rd rank. Even though the Railway offered her a job in the Indian > Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), they later declined it claiming a > visually challenged person wasb for the profession. “I got an offer letter > from the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) that I have been > allotted a job in IRAS in December 2016. But even after several days, I > didn’t get any other communication. So I contacted them to enquire about > it. But they replied that the Railways can’t appoint a person with 100 per > cent blindness. I was disappointed, of course, but I was not ready to give > up my fight against my own weakness. I again worked hard to improve my > ranking and secured 124th rank in the second attempt,” she said. > > According to Patil, her achievement should give a boost to other people who > face similar challenges. “I want to motivate them by emerging as a > successful person by fighting against all odds,” said the IAS officer who > is married to Komal Patil, a businessman.The IAS officer, who arrived in > Ernakulam with her father L B Patil and mother Jyothi Patil, is all set to > take up her new role. “Things are so different here. > > I need to work a lot to understand everything. I am sure that I can do my > best,” said the confident young IAS officer whose role models are Japanese > philosopher Daisaku Ikeda and physicist Stephen Hawking. > Patil did her graduation in Political Science and earned a Master’s degree > in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, in addition to > M.Phil and PhD. > > Source - > https://www.google.com/amp/www.newindianexpress.com/ > cities/kochi/2018/may/30/visually-impaired-assistant- > collector-wins-against-all-odds-1821158.amp > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
