The lack of facilities, education and support for children with cerebral palsy did not deter wheelchair-bound Kedar Indurkar, 33, from using his physical capacity to bag the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
The lack of facilities, education and support for children with cerebral palsy did not deter wheelchair-bound Kedar Indurkar, 33, from using his physical capacity to bag the National Award for the
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.
The books translated and converted by Kedar into Braille are today adding to the education and knowledge of the visually impaired institutes in Maharashtra and Karnataka. He has translated eight books of famous writer and social worker, Sudha Murthy, and several other books into Hindi and Marathi and converted them into Braille.
He received the award, given by the ministry of social justice and empowerment (disability division) from president Pratibha Patil at a function in New Delhi on World Disability Day.
Kedar deserves his prize for translating his interest in computers into a source of earning with his hard work and determination.
Tech-savvy Kedar, whose left side is completely paralysed and who cannot us e much of his right side as well, won the award under the cerebral palsy category.
Like all other children with cerebral palsy, his family too had to go through numerous hardships for his education and training. “We had to change several schools before we finally got his education completed through the National Open School in Delhi, where he could choose his subjects. After matriculation, we encouraged him to do some computer courses,” said Kedar’s father Vasant.
Since then, the computer became his best friend. The Infosys Foundation of the Murthys helped him with the conversion of Wise And Otherwise into Braille.
Kedar has made friends all over the world through social networking sites. When he is not on the computer he is in front of television, watching cricket. He loves non-vegetarian food. He is impressed with the facilities for the handicapped he saw in the US during his family tour and wishes that it happens in India too.
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