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Pushpa Preeya

Pushpa Preeya
receiving the Nari Shakti Puraskar
BornPushpa Preeya
Bangaluru, Karnataka, India
Other namesPushpa Nagaraj
Alma materIndira Gandhi National Open University
Occupation(s)scribe, IT professional
Known forwriting exams for visually impaired people

Pushpa Preeya also known as either Pushpa NM or Pushpa N. M. is an Indian scribe, IT professional and volunteer. She is well known for her voluntary service of writing exams for visually impaired people.[1]

Biography

She was born and raised up in Bangaluru, Karnataka. She comes from a very humble background facing financial difficulties at her young age.[2] She also revealed that she and her brother had to beat all obstacles and odds to build a life for themselves during an interview with India Times.[1]

Career

"Visually impaired people are humans too, people forget that sometimes. They have a disability in a particular part of their body, not in heart."

—Pushpa Preeya.[3]

Pushpa pursued her career as an exam scribe in 2007 and it was one of her friends who motivated her to write exams for differently abled people.[4] In 2007, she responded to the request of few NGOs to write exams for blind people.[5] She also completed diploma in computer science and pursuing her education still from the Indira Gandhi National Open University.

As of 2019, she was reported to have completed writing over 1000 exams for visually impaired people since 2007.[6] She also maintains a Facebook blog page for blood donors.[7] She received the Nari Shakti Puraskar for the year 2018 from the Indian President Ram Nath Kovind on 8 March 2019 coinciding with the International Women's Day.[8][9][10]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Meet Pushpa Preeya - The Woman Who Has Written 1000 Exams For The Disabled, In The Last 10 Years". indiatimes.com. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Meet Bangaluru woman who has been writing exams". www.thenewsminute.com. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Meet Pushpa Preeya scribe of the decade". Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  4. ^ Sunitha Rao R. (11 February 2018). "She scribed 657 exams in 10 years for the disabled | Bengaluru News". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  5. ^ "B'luru Woman Has Written 1000+ Exams - Not for Herself, but for the Differently-Abled!". The Better India. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  6. ^ "The woman who's appeared for 700-plus exams – to help disabled students". Christian Science Monitor. 4 September 2019. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Giving A write hand to needy students". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  8. ^ Goled, Shraddha Goled (11 March 2019). "President Awards Nari Shakti Puraskar To 'Exam Scribe' Who Has Written Over 600 Exams For Differently-Abled People". thelogicalindian.com. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  9. ^ "President gives Nari Shakti Puraskar, woman marine pilot, commando trainer receive loudest cheers". uniindia.com. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  10. ^ "President confers Nari Shakti awards on 44 women". The Tribune. 9 March 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2020.

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