21-year-old Pavel Gupta was always told that his disability would always stand in the way of his dreams. To pursue electronics would not just be an impossible feat to achieve but also a fight with mindsets. But Gupta took each word of discouragement as his driving force to prove a point. And that's is what he did.
Gupta, a visually challenged, is in his fourth year of electronics at IIT Roorkee. "I was one year old when I developed a tumor in one eye. To prevent it from spreading the doctors operated me. I have one stone now," said Gupta.
"There were many instances in life when people said I should take up arts and not technical subjects, given my circumstances. But every time they said that I felt, I had to break stereotype," Gupta further added. After clearing his IIT-JEE four years back, he says that people are no sensitized enough.
"How does me having one functional eye change things? I am willing, and capable and all it is about giving a fair chance," said Gupta. Gupta was one of the many students gathered at one of the United Service Institution of India seminar halls. These young minds were attending the inaugural session of the two-day National Convention for Youth with Disabilities, on Thursday.
Organised by the National Center for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People and the Hans Foundation, the convention plans to bring together the youth to take forward social issues.
Expressing his angst and the current system Rishabh Goyal, a physics honours student studying in a reputed university in Delhi, says that the one of the reason he is able to achieve his dreams is because he has the funds for it.
Recounting an incident from his school days, Goyal said, "the only reason I was able to take up science was because my parents hired a man to carry me to the fourth floor to out laboratory everyday," said Goyal.
"Before that I was asked not to take up science since I won't be able to reach the lab. Even now, I cannot commute alone in public transport, I travel in a private vehicle," Goyal further added. He says that all this would be way more difficult for a person who cannot afford this.
Students also pointed out that even though many buildings and modes of transport may be accessible but to reach these places there is no way. All these and many more issues were highlighted by students. Some of them were also answered by the minister for social justice & empowerment, Kumari Selja.
She said that as a society we are not sensitive. "In my own work area I have seen a perfectly built ramp is blocked. It is insensitivity. There is no easy solution but we will have to keep at it," said Selja.
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