<p>A Group D worker at Deputy Commissioner’s office in Mangalore, Nayak travels from Urwa Store to State Bank by bus, walks to the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, takes stairs to his work station on the second floor and then starts his work of delivering files in the DC Office from one table to another. He even mends the nylon seating of broken nylon chairs and sends fax to various destinations without any help from others.<br /><br />Nayak may be blind from eyes, but he operates from his senses and inner eyes. It is with this superb capacity that he remembers every table in the DC office enabling him to deliver his duty of transferring files without any mistake so far. What is more interesting is to see Nayak operate his mobile phone with great ease, dialling numbers, storing numbers, making calls etc.<br /><br />Nayak expresses his gratitude to the National Association for Blind (NAB) and the Rehabilitation and Basic Training Centre (RBTC) for bringing him out of the clutches of darkness and making him mobile. <br /><br />Speaking to City Herald, Nayak said that his disadvantage kept him away from portals of school after completing primary education at the Belur Government School in Kundapur. However, he said that an year long mobility training made him an independent person.<br />“It is all in the mind. You can never achieve anything if you crib and cry over your infirmities and failures. You have to stand up and start walking to your destination keeping all problems aside. I am dependent only on myself. I do my work on time, efficiently without any failure. I know to use mobilephones, fax machines. I knit seating of the chairs and I am happy with what I have made out of my life,” he says without any disappointment. <br /><br />Nayak, son of Manjunatha - Shantha couple of Belur in Kota, had lost his sight at the age of five due to fever. He was appointed as a Group D employee in the DC Office in 1995 during the tenure of the then Deputy Commissioner Bharathlal Meena. After joining the DC Office, his dreams of writing SSLC examination was also realised. He passed the examination with second class. Nayak said that Mithrajyothi, an NGO, had sent audio cassettes containing texts for SSLC to him, which had come as blessing to him. <br /><br />“Earlier I never had the confidence and was apprehensive about my future. However, the training of NAB helped me know what I want and how I can shape my future. Now I am a confident, independent person. I can even distinguish currency depending on the size of it. No one can take advantage of my infirmity,” Nayak explained. Nayak, who has completed 15 years of service in DC Office successfully, insists that visually challenged people should have a positive take on life. “Blindness should not be an impediment in life. <br />There are many institutions, which train visually challenged people in mobility training. If you have a vision and dedication, you can also achieve success,” Nayak advises visually challenged people.<br /><br />Nayak, who got married in 2007, is living with wife and child in a government quarters at Urwa Stores. <br /></p>
<p>A Group D worker at Deputy Commissioner’s office in Mangalore, Nayak travels from Urwa Store to State Bank by bus, walks to the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, takes stairs to his work station on the second floor and then starts his work of delivering files in the DC Office from one table to another. He even mends the nylon seating of broken nylon chairs and sends fax to various destinations without any help from others.<br /><br />Nayak may be blind from eyes, but he operates from his senses and inner eyes. It is with this superb capacity that he remembers every table in the DC office enabling him to deliver his duty of transferring files without any mistake so far. What is more interesting is to see Nayak operate his mobile phone with great ease, dialling numbers, storing numbers, making calls etc.<br /><br />Nayak expresses his gratitude to the National Association for Blind (NAB) and the Rehabilitation and Basic Training Centre (RBTC) for bringing him out of the clutches of darkness and making him mobile. <br /><br />Speaking to City Herald, Nayak said that his disadvantage kept him away from portals of school after completing primary education at the Belur Government School in Kundapur. However, he said that an year long mobility training made him an independent person.<br />“It is all in the mind. You can never achieve anything if you crib and cry over your infirmities and failures. You have to stand up and start walking to your destination keeping all problems aside. I am dependent only on myself. I do my work on time, efficiently without any failure. I know to use mobilephones, fax machines. I knit seating of the chairs and I am happy with what I have made out of my life,” he says without any disappointment. <br /><br />Nayak, son of Manjunatha - Shantha couple of Belur in Kota, had lost his sight at the age of five due to fever. He was appointed as a Group D employee in the DC Office in 1995 during the tenure of the then Deputy Commissioner Bharathlal Meena. After joining the DC Office, his dreams of writing SSLC examination was also realised. He passed the examination with second class. Nayak said that Mithrajyothi, an NGO, had sent audio cassettes containing texts for SSLC to him, which had come as blessing to him. <br /><br />“Earlier I never had the confidence and was apprehensive about my future. However, the training of NAB helped me know what I want and how I can shape my future. Now I am a confident, independent person. I can even distinguish currency depending on the size of it. No one can take advantage of my infirmity,” Nayak explained. Nayak, who has completed 15 years of service in DC Office successfully, insists that visually challenged people should have a positive take on life. “Blindness should not be an impediment in life. <br />There are many institutions, which train visually challenged people in mobility training. If you have a vision and dedication, you can also achieve success,” Nayak advises visually challenged people.<br /><br />Nayak, who got married in 2007, is living with wife and child in a government quarters at Urwa Stores. <br /></p>
