Sight lost, her securities are hard work & resolve The writer has posted comments on this articlePartha SinhaPartha Sinha, TNN | Mar 28, 2013, 02.33 AM IST
MUMBAI: It Bait was a mid-November afternoon in 2012. Vishakha More was in Jaipur, combining post-Diwali celebrations with a family reunion. She then got a call from a friend who informed her that she had been given the Best Employee Award by the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. About three months later, More, an assistant general manager for market regulation at Sebi, was at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi, where she received the citation from President Pranab Mukherjee. It was a high point in the 41-year-old More's career, who, before joining the regulator in 2004, had struggled for years to get a permanent job despite having excelled in academics and extra-curricular activities. More has been disadvantaged because of her blindness, which had developed during her early years. In 1993, she graduated in political science (honours) from Delhi's Hindu College. Three years later, she completed her part-time MBA from Delhi's Fore School of Management, where she was a gold medallist. Outside of academics, she also completed a special course in trekking from the world-famous Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling and subsequently trekked at an altitude of about 13,000 feet in the Himalayas. After joining the regulatory body, her life changed completely, so much so that she now says she can't think of life beyond Sebi and doesn't even want to. At work she uses two softwares, JAWS (Job Access With Speech) and OCRS (Optical Character Recognition Software), to read files and emails, while her notes and markers are in Braille. With anything handwritten she receives help from colleagues. "My success, my 100%, is always a combination of the efforts of the people I work with and those of my own," More said when a colleague pointed out that she was one of the most capable officers in Sebi's market regulations department. After spending nearly 14 years in the city, she calls herself a Mumbaikar and feels strongly about the sense of safety the city offers -- from travelling to buying vegetables, to shopping and so on. Of late, however, with all the cases of atrocities against women in the news, she's slightly perturbed. "I feel strongly about those who do not have the facilities that I enjoy," More said. Does she miss anything? "Yes. I miss long walks. I want to walk alone around the place I live. But whenever I have tried I have almost always ended up at a wrong place," she said. So, what's the solution? "I think the roads should be more straight than what they are, which would be of great help to people like me. My feeling is such sensibilities will develop over time." Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Sight-lost-her-securities-are-hard-work-resolve/articleshow/19249533.cms? Regards, Shiv Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.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
