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Chief Minister Raman Singh celebrated the ‘International White Cane Day’ and his birthday with visually-impaired children of the State at his residence on Wednesday. The visually-impaired children provided a musical performance at the Chief Minister’s residence on the occasion. Impressed by their talent, the Chief Minister gave discretionary grant of Rs1 lakh for their orchestra. The children were the students of Mathpuraina based Government School for Hearing and Visually-Impaired, run by State Government’ Social Welfare Department. On the occasion , the Chief Minister also walked with these children to assure that he would always be keen to extend every possible help to them. Visually impaired children gave a beautiful musical performance of patriotic and other Hindi and Chhattisgarhi songs. The Chief Minister was glad to know that three of the children of orchestra namely Vasundhara of Standard 6th, Roop Varsha of Standard 8th and Suman who have been selected in the Mumbai auditions of Indian Idol singing programme of a private TV channel. Speaking on the occasion, Singh said that after witnessing the wonderful talent of these children in singing and playing instruments like Tabla, Harmonium etc, it can be said that children of our State will glorify their names across the globe in the field of music. He said that despite being visually impaired, a number of people has achieved major success at national and international level. Many of them are serving on higher posts as well. The Chief Minister suggested children to concentrate on both studies and music while adding that now disabled persons are being given six per cent reservation in government jobs. He motivated them to work hard and attain higher posts to glorify the name of their family, their State and nation as a whole and also advised them not to ignore their love for music . On the occasion, Women and Child Development and Social Welfare Minister Ramsheela Sahu, School Education and Tribal Caste Development Minister Kedar Kashyap, Chhattigarh State Child Rights Protection Commission Chairnab Shatabdi Pandey, former Chhattisgarh Assembly Speaker Dharamlal Kaushik, former Agriculture Minister Chandrashekhar Sahu and many senior officials of State Government’s various departments along with local people were also present. The visually impaired children namely Shravan Kumari,Durga Maravi, Monika, Guruvari, Ranu, Neelam, Suman, Vasundhara, Usha, RoopVarsha, Kamalkant, Ramprakash, Chhattar, Shyam Prakash, Lakshman, Prahlad,Nitesh, Vinay, Thirman, Gopal and Ganjendra presented musical orchestra at the Chief Minister’s residence. Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! 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/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] 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..
