I thing she has to say 1st time in pune!because all the car rallys are every one knows thank you and good luck! Surendra Salgaonkar mobile +919867645933 skype salgaonkarskype email salgaonkarconce...@rediffmail.com surendra.salgaonk...@gmail.com -----Original message----- From: Ketan Kothari Sent: 22.02.2012, 9:13 am To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Cc: jnuvision Subject: Re: [AI] For the 1st time, car rally for visually impaired in Pune
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 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
