Friday, September 18, 2009
Disabled badminton player receives highest Indian sports honor
Polio-affected Parul Parmar of Gandhinagar, Gujarat, was last month honored with the Arjuna Award, the highest honor from the president of India for achievement in sports, in the Paralympics category. Parmar, 36, won the world badminton tournament for the disabled in 2007.
Disabled by polio in infancy, she has won 11 gold, three silver and two bronze medals since 2002. An exponent of the right-hand smash, Parmar won the badminton championship held at Kualalumpur at the first Asiad Paralympics in 2004.
In the second Asiad Paralympics held in Bengaluru in 2008, she won two gold medals and a silver; she defeated the Malaysian contestant in the singles and also won a gold in the doubles in tournament.
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Disabled by polio in infancy, she has won 11 gold, three silver and two bronze medals since 2002. An exponent of the right-hand smash, Parmar won the badminton championship held at Kualalumpur at the first Asiad Paralympics in 2004.
In the second Asiad Paralympics held in Bengaluru in 2008, she won two gold medals and a silver; she defeated the Malaysian contestant in the singles and also won a gold in the doubles in tournament.
To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
Labels: achivement is sports, arjuna awards, disabled, gandhinagar, gujarat, highest honor, polio, polio affected parul parmar, president of india, tournament for disabled, world badminton tournament
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Amar Seva Sangam in Tirunelveli empowering the disabled
Amar Seva Sangam, a non-profit established in 1981 by S. Ramakrishnan in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, helps the disabled help themselves. It does so by using state-of-the-art technology and building an almost self-sustaining campus that manufactures orthotics and conducts research and providing rehabilitation, vocational training, as well as nursery school, library, and not least, medical care. In addition, it helps women with special programs and takes part in relief work in natural calamities. (For more details or to contribute visit www.amarseva.org).
Ramakrishnan became a quadriplegic following an accident in 1975 when he was in his fourth year of engineering studies. After intense self- rehabilitation, he turned to helping others in his situation.
The organization has been headed since 1992, by S. Sankara Raman, a young accountant affected by muscular dystrophy and a wheel chair user, who left his lucrative practice at Chennai, and joined Ramakrishnan.
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Ramakrishnan became a quadriplegic following an accident in 1975 when he was in his fourth year of engineering studies. After intense self- rehabilitation, he turned to helping others in his situation.
The organization has been headed since 1992, by S. Sankara Raman, a young accountant affected by muscular dystrophy and a wheel chair user, who left his lucrative practice at Chennai, and joined Ramakrishnan.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
Labels: Amar Seva Sangam, chennai, disabled, natural calamities, rehabilitation, S. Ramakrishnan, Tamil Nadu, Tirunelveli, vocational training
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