Dear Access India Friends, ice to know about the rally but this is not the first rally of its kind in Pune. There was a similar rally held where we had participated from Mumbai and some of our friends from Gujarat were also present. I had won the navigational rally. This is just for your information.
On 2/22/12, avinash shahi <shahi88avin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Friends those who are in Pune, get registered yourselves. > > http://www.indianexpress.com/news/for-the-1st-time-car-rally-for-visually-impaired-in-city/915113/0 > > Organisers of the event call it a “rally with a difference” and indeed > it is one. On March 4, Pune will witness its first car rally for the > visually impaired. The rally, which will be flagged off at 8 am from > Phoenix Market City Mall, Kalyani Nagar, is expected to get > registrations from around 125 drivers. The rally will follow a strict > pattern - the participants will drive the car, while a visually > impaired navigator in the car will direct the driver by reading > through an instruction manual written in Braille. > The participants will have no clue of the route before the start. The > driver will act only in accordance with his visually impaired > partner’s instructions. “The navigator will read the Braille > instructions and direct the driver on where to turn, what speed to go > at and for how much distance,” said Shivam Arren of Poona United Round > Table 144, which is organising the rally. > > Similar rallies have earlier been organised in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, > Kolkata, Nagpur, Nashik and so on, while Pune enters the list this > year. > > The rally will cover nearly 65 km. “It will consider the factors of > time, speed and distance, but it is a rally and not a race,” said > Arren. The route will have 10 check points in place for the cars. To > regulate the speeds of the vehicles and discourage undue competition, > some strictures have been put in place. At the flag-off, all the cars > will hit the road in the matter of a minute. On the basis of this, > every car will have an assigned time to reach every check point. Both > early and late arrivals will be penalised, the former more heavily. > > The rally has been planned with multiple objectives in mind. It will > raise funds for the Poona Blind Men’s Association, through entry fee > and sponsorship. “The participants will also get to interact with a > visually impaired person throughout the journey, a chance they may not > otherwise get. It will also help boost the confidence of the > navigators,” added Arren. > > The rally has already received around 50 registrations, and the > organisers are in the process of obtaining requisite traffic and > police permissions. The participants will drive their own cars at the > event. Every participant will be awarded a certificate, while the top > three arrivals will be given trophies. > > > > -- > "The best things and most beautiful things in the world Cannot be seen > or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." — Helen Keller > > Avinash Shahi > M.A. Political Science > CPS JNU > New Delhi India > > > 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 > > -- Ketan Kothari Phone: [r] 24223281, Cell: 9987550614 MSN ID: muktake...@hotmail.com Skype ID: Ketan3333 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
