In today's' episode of Ek Mulakat, listen an exclusive interview of Mr. Prateek Agarwal, CEO and owner of Daedal Technovation Private limited, India. This broadcast can be heard at 9 PM tonight on www.radioudaan.com and repeat broadcast can be heard at 4 PM on Saturday, Sep 6, 2014 on the same online radio station.
Prateek agarwal glides his fingers fluidly over a computer keyboard, at a speed that can only be watched with amazement. Agarwal is a software engineer, develops software solutions, provides personality and life skills training to corporate and individuals and once a week, teaches computers to visually-challenged people. What makes this so worthy of mention is that the young, spirited entrepreneur was born blind. The inability to see did not deter 24-year-old Prateek Agarwal from pursuing his childhood dream of opening his own enterprise. Agarwal,who pursued computer science engineering,is now the CEO of an IT company Deadel Technovations pvt. Ltd. floated by him in 2010. Currently,he is employing more than 35 people and has offices in Jaipur, Udaipur, and Hyderabad besides presence in US and australia. He has been awarded by x governer of rajasthan mr. madanlal khurana and IT minister sachin pilot for his terrific achievements besides being featured in various leading news papers, magazines, TV channels and internet websites. A product of St Michael School,Subhash Chowk,Agarwal had a keen interest in mathematics. Despite a shortage of books in Braille,he managed to score better marks in his senior secondary exams than his batch mates. His enthusiasm and never-give-up attitude helped him trump all odds. After Class 12 exams,he appeared for entrance tests at various engineering colleges but was refused admission on the grounds of disability. In the end,NIIT University came to his rescue and admitted him in the computer science branch of engineering. In his final year,like other class mates,he too was upbeat about placements.However,he got a rude shock when he had to face prevailing prejudices in the corporate sector against the disabled. After working hard on his application and getting internship experience at reputed firms,two Forbes 500 companies refused him job,simply because he was blind. Stung by the refusal,Agarwal decided to start his own software company in Jaipur.He worked tirelessly for days meeting potential clients.The hard work paid off and he started getting assignments. In 2010, Prateek Agarwal started his own IT company, Daedal Technovations Pvt Ltd. Currently, The company has its head office in jaipur with presence in the US, the UK and Australia providing B2B, B2C, and Internet marketing solutions to local and to international brands like Tanishq, Paliwal Jewelers and Idea Cellular to name a few. With the offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, and training education centre at Udaipur, Agarwal heads a team of 35 employees today. Every once a week, Agarwal volunteers his services at the Rajasthan Netraheen kalyan sangh providing computer education to the blind there. Besides this, prateek is a psychology graduate and is a certified counsiler. He conducts training on life skills and personality for corporate and individuals such as public speaking and communication, time management, stress management etc. one of his series, called "turning the table" has been a grand hit in jaipur and other cities amongst engineering students. With this, he is award winner singer, guitar playrer and loves to cook and hang out with friends in his free time. Happy listening! Warm regards, Amit Bhatt RJ - Radio Udaan, www.radioudaan.com Sr. Software Accessibility Testing engineer - QA Infotech pvt. Ltd. http://www.qainfotech.net Moderator - SayEverything, an international mailing list dedicated to people with cross disabilities http://www.sayeverything.org Skype: amitbhattindia FB: facebook.com/amit.bhatt.52643 M: 91 9560175887 "A player makes a team great is more valuable than a great player." 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 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..
