Now I'm more eager to visit Ludhiana... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ludhiana/Visually-impaired-duo-fulfils-sound-dreams/articleshow/50638656.cms Ludhiana: Thirty-six-year old visually challenged Sandeep Singh and his 43-year-old friend Gurpreet Singh Chahal, who is also visually challenged, have become an inspiration for others as they have started web radio 'Sach dee Goonj' with a vision to bring the visually challenged artists and achievers at par with others. They have their listeners not only in India, but also across the world. They also cater to listeners on mobile phones through an android app.
A resident of Machiwara, Sandeep who works in nagar council Machiwara, decided to start the radio channel. "For a person who cannot see listen, radio is very important and thus I started to start a channel. This dream turned into a reality on March 28, 2014 when we started 'Sach dee Goonj' web radio on 32kbps speed. From there a new journey of our lives started," he said. Sandeep said it was he and his friend Gurpreet Singh Chahal who works in PUDA office in Ludhiana, who started the project. "The biggest support that we got was from Harjot Sandhu from Holland who is working as a director with us and has been guiding us throughout. Harjot is not visually challenged like us, but he understands our pain and problems," said Sandeep Singh.Recommended By Colombia Gurpreet informed that they air Punjab Live programme from 7 pm to 9 pm from Monday to Friday. In this programme, they deal with a variety of issues related to the awareness for visually challenged and also for others to help them deal with visually challenged. "Apart from this we also interview many artists, players and academicians include visually challenged as well to bring them on one platform. We also present things related to Punjabi culture and are also giving news as well. More programmes on our web radio include two-hour programme from Germany 'Man kee Baat', two hours program from Holland 'Haryana Gallan' 9pm to 11pm by Harjot Sandhu, 'Trinjan' from 5am to 7am by Arvinder Sandhu from Sirsa," he said. Talking about their listeners, he said there are over 1,000 listeners overseas, besides those in India. Most of the overseas listeners, he informed, were from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and even Pakistan. They also created an android app in November 2015 through which people can now listen to their programmes on their cell phones as well. The other two members of their team who give all the technical support --- Inderjeet Singh from Phagwara and Jagjit Singh from Amritsar --- are also visually challenged and all of them have a big dream of adding more happiness and joy to the lives of people like them and others who are differently abled. "In India we have a problem over toll free numbers, but we have toll free numbers in most of other countries through which listeners connect to us. Speed of net is a problem and hopefully these problems would also be solved with time and we will be able to broaden our horizons," added Sandee -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU 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..
