A tribute to the specially-abled heroes who have overcome disability and contributed to society.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] , October 29: Celebrating the triumph of the human spirit, Dr Batra’s® organized the 14th edition of the Positive Health Awards on October 12th, 2022 at the Tata Theatre, NCPA in Mumbai presented Bajaj Auto. In the 14th edition of the Positive Health Awards, five individuals who overcame adversities and contributed to society were recognized and awarded for their exemplary grit and determination.
The eminent jury panel comprising of – Rajiv Bajaj – MD, Bajaj Auto, Dr. Mukesh Batra, Padma Shri recipient and Founder, Dr Batra’s Group of Companies, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Viviek Oberoi and R. Balki, had a difficult job of selecting the winners from hundreds of applications from across the country.
The event was witnessed by more than 750 selected audiences comprising of leaders of industry, medical students and NGO’s. The audience was regaled by songs sung by ‘Swarrange’ a visually challenged orchestra and dance performances on wheels by dance group ‘Miracle on Wheels’.
Speaking on the occasion, Padma Shri recipient Dr Mukesh Batra, Founder – Dr Batra’s® group of companies said, “The Positive Health heroes inspire us, the able bodied to achieve more in life and contribute to society. Their lives are truly inspirational and we as a brand that cares are honoured to bring out their amazing stories. Our past winners have gone on to excel and win many other accolades in India and we hope that with their grit and determination helps them achieve greater heights. We thank Mr. Rajiv Bajaj for his continuous support in our endeavour to recognize these real-life heroes.”
Mridul Ghosh: Mridul, an Indian Air Force Employee suffering from complete paralysis of the body due to C5 and C6 vertebral injuries after his encounter with an accident on the field didn’t let his condition become a roadblock. Determined to move forward, Mridul started painting using his lips, and soon after he joined hands with Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (MFPA). He now instructs specially-abled PRC troops and has received many accolades in doing so, including the ‘2020 Artist of the Year’ and ‘The MFPA India Excellence Awards’.
Zainika Jagasia: Zainika, the second awardee of the Positive Health Awards is a Mumbai-based model with Down syndrome who broke through the societal definitions of beauty and represented her community at large. Due to her passion for modeling, she has garnered remarkable opportunities across brands like Gajra Gang, Cotton World, and Nykaa. She was also featured in the Marika Magazine. She also holds remarkable grades in the academic sphere.
Dr Jitendra Agarwal: Having lost his vision to macular degeneration, Dr Jitendra Agarwal took a step back from his 6 years of practice as a Dental Surgeon. During his years of recovery, he came to terms with the fact that a person with a disability (PWD) suffers from something worse than the disability itself and that is the feeling of dependency. So to address this, he established ‘Sarthak’.
Sarthak has rehabilitated 314 disabled children through its early intervention and inclusive education initiative, trained 4550 PwD candidates, held over 100 job fairs, and placed 7250 PwD in employment.
Dr Fathima Asla: Suffering from Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease, Dr Fathima underwent six surgeries. Having spent most of her life visiting doctors and hospitals, she was left in awe of how they took care of the patients. So to help those like her, she decided to pursue medicine. She completed her (BHMS) at NSS Homoeo Medical College, Kottayam, and practiced as a house surgeon at ANSS Homoeo Medical College Hospital.
Having achieved her dream, she is now an inspiration for many. Her autobiography was released in the year 2020 and is a best-seller in Kerala.
People’s Choice Award Winner:
Ameer Siddique: Aameer Siddiqui, a resident of Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh, contracted Polio when he was just 18 months old. Aameer had a tough childhood. Not only was he discriminated against and bullied by his schoolmates but also by his own relatives, who ostracized him. But he decided not to give up. He challenged people’s perception of people with disability with his strength and education. Today, he has 3 Master’s Degrees and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. His NGO – ‘Eagle Specially Abled Rider’ which has more than 500 para-riders organizes motorcycle rallies across India to generate awareness on social issues like illiteracy, rape-free India, etc.
Speaking on the occasion, Actress Madhoo said, “I am humbled by the wonderful work that you do, Dr Batra. I am grateful for my presence at these amazing awards. I will go back hugely inspired”.
This year’s prestigious Positive Health Awards show was supported by Bajaj Auto and other partners, including Business World and Radio Fever. The event was also graced by eminent celebrities and personalities, including Madhoo, Bharat Dabolkar, Mr. Bu Abdullah, Mickey Mehta, Kiran Shantaram, and Mr Anurag Batra, the owner of Business World, among others.
To catch a glimpse of the awardees and hear what the celebrities have to say, visit here.
Dr Batra’s Positive Health Foundation, is the CSR arm of Dr Batra’s® Group of Companies and has been making a profound difference to the lives of the deserving in the country. Initiated, 20 years ago the foundation currently runs 194 free clinics on every second Wednesday/Thursday of every month and provides lifetime free medicines for the needy. Dr Batra’s® Foundation has been associated with 9 non-profit organizations across the country to spread the goodness of homeopathy to the underprivileged. The Foundation also grants scholarships to deserving students from 10 top Homeopathy colleges across India who wish to pursue studies in Homeopathy but cannot afford the fees.
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The Story of Wasteland
There lives a town arranged in the southern district of Nigeria,
decisively in the old Bendel state, now Edo state.
To talk all the more decisively, this town is at the heart of the Etsako Nation.
One of the quickest developing group in the whole southern part of the
nation, it is a residential area with practically no regular assets,
yet it is exceptionally energetic simply like Dubai.
Like Dubai, in this town, it once in a while downpours.
The sun rules unchallenged. It is the most blazing spot in the whole
Southern district of the nation. Basically, it is dry area like Dubai.
This town is best known for its continuous area slides.
This town is step by step turning into a journey site for most Christian travelers/admirers.
It is likewise a town with the absolute most daring people
who can talk with total surrender. A town where you have an issue with one of their
indigenes simply be rest guaranteed that the whole group is coming to strike back whether
you were correct or off-base. Here, spouses are scarcely agreed any quality.
No man’s land is a town with a wonderful welcome society.
With the straightforward expression “Mo”, you are seen as a kid with legitimate home preparing.
Most guardians instruct their youngsters to say “Mo” and
leave the occupation of child rearing for the essential distraction of
procuring their day by day bread. One can scarcely point
the finger at them for this is a Nigerian issue.
It is not a grieved story the distance. I have made it
sound from the beginning just as this town needs everything.
It doesn’t. There is uplifting news about the town. It has an exceptionally awesome synthetic fortune.
As such, it is the major financial driver of development
in this little town.
Starting now and into the foreseeable future, I will allude to this town as Wasteland.
In Wasteland, individual cleanliness is an “unthinkable.” No, there are no standards against
individual cleanliness, no condemnation holding up to slip on a
wrongdoer’s head, as I would later come to find.
Maybe, to call it unthinkable is to misrepresent.
To talk in plain terms, it is the standard in Wasteland to disregard individual
cleanliness.
Why do I call this town Wasteland? Maybe, because”WASTE/REFUSE” is just their courtesan? They live with waste
and eat with it. Indeed, would one be able to reprimand them for a society that
has been there, most likely much sooner than they were conceived?
Scarcely will you see a canal that channels waste into
the primary road canal. The incongruity of the entire issue is that a large
portion of these avenues even need drains. Along these
lines, it is regular for them to dump deny in their
homes or near their homes. They now and then attempt to legitimize themselves by
blazing their decline in front or back of their homes.
This then brings up an issue. What about the waste that one can’t blaze
i.e., kitchen waste, fluid waste, and so forth… ? They essentially pour
them onto the road.
One thing this town cherishes as much as waste in this town is sustenance..
No man’s land is a town that affections nourishment, yet gives careful consideration to the
earth in which the sustenance is being readied.
This town adores waste/deny so much that its nose has become used to the odor.
The townspeople’s brains no more translate waste as a hurtful substance any longer.
Along these lines, sustenance and waste blend.
The town completely needs arranging. Structures are raised at any spot that looks like area without government
hindrance.The just time you see government authorities interfering with development is essentially in light of the fact that the
proprietor of the building has not “SETTLE”, a normal Nigerian word
for Bribing and defilement. This town has a major water board offices that is fit for supplying
water to each home, (My musings are: the organization of
the past government that constructed that office, did it due to the
compelling dry climate state of the town). Tragically, the offices have
been grounded because of absence of upkeep and brainless government specialists.
The general population now depend on water-supplying-tankers who
get their water from dung plagued streams or purchase from
people who can bear the cost of the high cost of burrowing a borehole.
This is a town where enormous decline bowlers
are arranged inside the quick local location, where little children have utilized as their restrooms (on the
direction of their folks or more established kin) amid the day
while “OTHERS” makes utilization of them around evening time for the same reason. In this town, houses scarcely have sewage pits.
They for the most part interface funnels at the back of their “Open Heaven” bathrooms that flushes the water straightforwardly onto
their roads.
I can talk from this minute till endlessness and my point will
basically be that things aren’t simply right in this town and everybody is
by all accounts content with it. By what method can a no
man’s land turn into the characteristic natural surroundings for people?
Should we likewise accuse the administration for this basic “Sound judgment” philosophy?
What does it take a landowner that can manufacture a complete story working to
simply include a solitary waste transfer framework in his home?
What does it take a landowner that can manufacture a
complete arrangement of one-room loft to build a channel that would arrange
human unavoidable waste? What might it cost a legislature that gathers charge
from its national to make approaches that will force proprietors to settle these blunders in their homes
due to the wellbeing suggestions? What might it cost a legislature that
is to a great extent financed by the poor through citizens’ cash to make it obligatory for each house to gather their waste in a dark huge nylon-sack and place it perfectly before
their homes and organize a far reaching waste administration organization to gather these waste on a week
by week premise for somewhat token? What will it cost
the administration to make a ground breaking strategy that would be a layout for the
advancement of this dry area into “Future African Dubai”?
What will it cost the administration to bridle the endowment of daylight in this town to create vitality that would make this town independent in force era?
What might it cost the general population of this no man’s land
to begin grasping the way of life of cleanliness? What might it cost moms to begin concentrating more
on child rearing, on imparting great ethics in their kids?
How costly would it be to give careful consideration to their kids?
What will it take for the general population of this no man’s land
to begin talking less and accomplishing more?
All things considered, on the off chance that this inquiry was put before me, I would vehemently say nothing is expected to make every
one of these things happen. At the point when the MAN is
RIGHT, HIS reality would be RIGHT. Keeping in mind that I overlook, I live
in AUCHI.
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