The well-recognised event ‘Sabal Awards’ by India’s most trusted and renowned company Tata Steel Foundation is gaining massive attention on the Internet. After 5 years of successive editions, Sabal Awards 2022 has impressively engaged the audience’s interest due to the visually-impaired boy winning the National level Sabal Award. Raghunath Rag is a school student who has bagged the third position singing competition. This child from Chattisgarh has been fully visually impaired since birth, but his voice has made history in competition with 17 more state competence.
Where Sabal Award is recognised among other national-level awards, this platform is special because it offers differently-abled people to bring a sense of equality and confidence by cherishing their calibre and celebrating their empowerment. It is a competition where participants come together from Pan India annually with national-level recognition.
Besides the title, Raghunath Nag has won a citation and a check of INR 10,000. According to the reports, he is the fourth of his five siblings. He is currently studying in class 10th at Aakar Sansthan in Sukrama District. This is a famous educational institute for differently abled children. Besides singing, Raghunath has had expertise in Harmonium playing, Dholak, and Tabla, since he was in grade 4th. The multitalented boy wants to build his career in the music stream, which can be seen in his persistence, dedication and hard work.
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What is the “Sabal Award” by Tata Steel Foundation?
Tata Steel Foundation had taken this initiative with the ‘‘Sabal Awards” in 2017 as a national level award, specifically introduced for specially-abled people. It has been going on since then for the last five years. The function had taken place for the first edition in Noamundi, Jamshedpur. The grand event is executed with the partnership with Enable India, whose purpose is to create Person’s Abilities for the Disabled (PWD).
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Sabal National Level Award Details and Achievements
Currently, the national level Sabal Award creates a platform for three basic categories of disabilities: hearing, sight, and orthopaedic. Within the past two years of its social service, the programme has not just helped a visually-impaired boy win an award but also compensated for the gap for thousands of participants. Of course, Tata Groups have made a legacy to bring a sense of development and progression in every field.
- PWD’s life up-gradation through a digital literacy program, entrepreneurship development, employability training, and even a foundation course in computers and employability.
- Calibre enhancement through TOT workshops and training programmes for specified disabilities
- Generated awareness and spread knowledge by cherishing more days dedicated to acknowledging disability with sensitisation programmes with massive disability empowerment.
- Provided certification to disabled people in rural areas of Noamundi and Joda along with AIDs and its necessities dissemination.
- The exclusive programme started in eastern India, Jharkhand’s first-ever residential training centre for the visually impaired.
Future Aspects of Sabal National-Level Awards and its Schemes
The programme is all set to introduce some enthusiastic strategies to strengthen the purpose of encouraging the disabled and enabling them to grow freely. Here is some concise information regarding the upcoming objectives:
- To focus on creating Inclusive and Adaptive Leadership quality among the government respondents by conceptualising and implementing workshops.
- Providing digital literacy training methods in pan India by collaborating with multiple NGOs and social institutes.
