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Striving to maintain equity amongst the destitute

Mar 17, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #Mr. Prashant Agarwal, #President of Narayan Seva Sansthan

By Mr. Prashant Agarwal, President of Narayan Seva Sansthan (NSS)

NSS is a non-profit organization serving differently abled and underprivileged individuals.

With the pandemic hitting the basic socio-economic backdrop, the ones that were severely distressed were the destitute and those who are differently abled. The rural fabric was disrupted as newer adoptions of technology and the new trends which were never explored nor adopted were pushed in the face of the rural people. With lesser acceptance towards these and no knowledge or know-how on the technology advancements, the rural population, including those from the lower segment and the ones who are differently abled were affected the most.

NGO’s and social well-being institutions came forward to help those who are destitute and who have been incapable of going through the distress of the job losses and lack of sustainability that was affected due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Narayan Seva Sansthan along with has been a leading NGO who has been trying to extend a helping hand towards the benefit and upliftment of those in need. The institution known for its help given to the differently abled and also offering education to the needy along with corrective surgeries done by the organisation, Narayan Seva Sansthan has been striving hard to bring in equity amongst the social landscape where every single person has the right to live with dignity. NSS has also contributed where to students by waiving off the college fees and even bringing in a ray of hope for the differently abled through Mass weddings.

A few cases where the Pandemic could not bog down the strength of those who are differently abled are:

Jobless Head of the family:

While Dixita has been a bright student of B.Tech like many girls, she had dreams and hopes in her eyes as she was ambitious too to do well in her life. However, the pandemic was not very kind where due to the COVID-19 pandemic her father an employee in a travel agency lost his job due to the number of tourists going down. Trying to cope up with the saving that were made by her father Dixita could not afford to continue with her education as she could not even pay her college fees. Dixita lost hope and that is when her family approached NSS. NSS immediately raised funds and offered it to Dixita to continue her B.Tech Second year education.

Making the Right Match:

The Pandemic has been a huge crisis for many. One such case was that of Shambu Lal and Jeena Kumari. Both of them who have been differently abled needed to find a correct match to spend their life. Both Shambu Lal and Jeena Kumari were introduced by NSS and got married during the 35th Mass Wedding Ceremony. Bride Jeena says at her wedding, “Being differently abled is an obstacle and difficult but keeping a smile on your face can solve half of your life’s problems.”

Bundle of Joy:

While giving birth millions of women face the strain of giving birth to premature or underweight babies in the rural part of India either due to the negligence of right healthcare treatments during delivery or post natal treatment or even because of no infrastructure available in certain areas. Kalpana gave birth to premature twin baby girls out of which the first child could not survive in the first 6 months. This was a mental and a psychological blow for both the parents. The second twin baby girl born was also facing tremendous health issues which caused a huge financial burden for the parents. The parents who were seeking financial help, reached out to Narayan Seva Sansthan who extended a helping hand to the parents by donating Rs 1.80 lakh for health support for the child’s treatment.

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Artificial Intelligence propelling progress for the differently abled

Jan 23, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Artificial intelligence, #Mr. Prashant Agarwal, #President of Narayan Seva Sansthan

– Mr. Prashant Agarwal, President of Narayan Seva Sansthan (a  non-profit organization serving differently abled and underprivileged individuals).

Udaipur: Artificial Intelligence is a field of Data Science and over the years it has emerged as a significant function across all businesses. AI or Artificial Intelligence is a Data Science Function that trains the computers to learn through experiences and perform tasks at cognitive levels adjusting to certain inputs. Right from Chatbots that have been utilized to assist customer interaction, AI is the next game changer that has emerged to be a powerful tool that has been utilized by businesses and services across the globe for contactless interpersonal interactions. AI is a tool that recognizes data patterns to perform specific tasks through the data that has been fed by AI professionals. In the recent times where newer technologies have been upgrading in a short span, the concept of Artificial Intelligence has been utilized by various corporates to create assistive technologies which have proved to be beneficial for the differently abled.

While the adoption of AI has created a direct transformation in economies, the use of AI has also been utilized to build up capabilities. As per the recent study that was released by Gartner it has been predicted that 69% of Routine Work Currently Done by Managers will Be Fully Automated by 2024. The Government of India has also been looking forward to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) for inclusive growth which is why it has established a Task Force on AI and had mandated the NitiAayog to develop and prepare a National Strategy on AI. India in its 4.0 industrial revolution seeks to provide competitive advantage through its AI solutions that can form increased productivity with added cost advantages too. Thus making businesses to be a little more cost productive and profitable than labor. Thus India is doing its best to reduce the global digital divide by building capabilities.

As per the recent article that was published by NitiAyogon, Indian Education Sector Is Ripe for disruption by Artificial Intelligence’ mentions that, India, by 2030,will have the largest number of young people in the globe. The use of AI has proven to be beneficial for the differently abled as more and more organizations are looking forward to recruit people with disabilities due to the adoption of AI making them more adapt to changes. Artificial Intelligence in a way has been fostering diversity at workplaces. The Gartner report states that 75% heads in an organization have been experiencing critical talent shortages. While the differently abled are the unexplored genre of talent pool most of the organizations are now equipping themselves with AI to make these differently abled candidates even more capable by offering skilling and training them. This has brought in workplace diversity where the differently abled are now being more accepted by larger organizations.

The Gartner report further elaborated that by 2023 people with disabilities employed will triple as AI will be reducing the workplace barriers. Gartner estimates that organizations actively employing people with disabilities have 89% higher retention rates, a 72% increase in employee productivity and a 29% increase in profitability.

AI has opened up various options for the differently abled which have added more inclusiveness to the workplace for them. Some of the more interesting options that have recently opened up for the differently abled are the restaurants who have opened up to hire the differently abled individuals by implementing virtual reality and braille. Also, Narayan SevaSansthan also offering education for differently abled children’s by braille.Many organizations havebeen actively implementing AI Robotics technologies by introducing robotics that can be controlled and maintained by the differently abled employees.

While AI has been developing and opening up options for the differently abled, one of the reports under the name “Rewire for Growth” by Accenture states thatArtificial Intelligence has the potential to add approximately $957 billion to India’s economy in 2035. AI in totality will have a humungous transformation through infrastructural growth with Machine Learning being the scope through which many businesses will benefit. Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning shall also prove to be beneficial in ophthalmology. These will be beneficial to screendiabetic retinopathy (DR), and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

AI has proved to open career options where assistive technologies such as Real-time text to speech and text translation systems have been used by teachers to train their students. These have been used to disseminate information seamlessly in regional languages which actually in line with the Draft National Education Policy to skill the differently abled. Another development in AI technology is the Biometricauthentication which has been used record attendance for both students and teachers that has been beneficial to record the attendance and other administrative tasks. The Biometric attendance has proved to be beneficial to mark the ratio of attendance by both teachers and youths and their participation alongwith the records of the ratio that is generated on the proportion of male-female enrollment for higher education.Chatbots have been essentially being used to answer the doubts and questions of students which are ideally provided by subject matter experts. According to a report on NitiAyog, Natural Language Processing could be used for automated grading of assessments on a large scale on platforms such as DIKSHA, E-PATHSHALA and SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) – not just objective questions but subjective ones as well.

Thus, to sum it up the education sector has opened up multiple aspects for the differently abled through the intervention of AI. While the path paved might have tremendous obstacles, AI would definitely create an opportunity across all sectors especially the education where it would be very beneficial for the differently abled.