Gargi Gupta is the founder and secretary of Voice Of World (NGO), a multi-unit non-profit organization for

visually impaired Visual or vision impairment (VI or VIP) is the partial or total inability of visual perception. In the absence of treatment such as corrective eyewear, assistive devices, and medical treatment, visual impairment may cause the individual difficul ...

, disabled, and orphaned children in Eastern India, headquartered in

Kolkata, India Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...

Life

Gupta was born in

West Bengal West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabi ...

. She finished her schooling at Kolkata and joined the

Indian Railways Indian Railways is a state-owned enterprise that is organised as a departmental undertaking of the Ministry of Railways (India), Ministry of Railways of the Government of India and operates India's national railway system. , it manages the fou ...

. The city's street children were her first introduction to the conditions of the poor after the death of her parents. Gupta started her work with six children in her father's rented house in North Kolkata. In 2018 the number of inmates was 300. It is the only privately run facility of its kind. Voice of World started its South Kolkata Centre in 1998 in another house of Prabir Gupta. Residential Kindergarten School, Braille Press and the library is located there. In recognition of her services, Indian President

Ramnath Kovind Ram Nath Kovind ( ; born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2017 to 2022. He is the first person from Uttar Pradesh to serve as the president. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Pa ...

awarded Gupta with the Nari Shakti (women empowerment) award on 8 March 2018.

The charity

Voice Of World's inmates are orphan or from under-privileged families. Along with their free education they experience various sports including mountaineering and trekking. In 2018 she introduced coastal trek for disabled inmates. After completion of education of inmates, she and her NGO take care of rehabilitation of inmates, especially visually disabled girls.

Major works

* 1992 She founded 'Voice of World' NGO which works for visually impaired and disabled orphaned children in Eastern India. *1997 Started residential facility for 300 residential and 3000 non residential beneficiaries. * 2001 developed

transliteration Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus '' trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → and → the digraph , Cyrillic → , Armenian → or L ...

software to transfer Bengali word documents in to

Braille Braille ( , ) is a Tactile alphabet, tactile writing system used by blindness, blind or visually impaired people. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille displays that connect to computers and smartphone device ...

. * Set up a home in Rishra for visually disabled women pursuing Higher Education * Her NGO runs a Teachers training college where disabled students get scholarship

Awards and honours

* 8 March 2018:

Nari Shakti Puraskar The Nari Shakti Puraskar () is an annual award given by the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India to individual women or to institutions that work towards the cause of women empowerment. It is presented by the presi ...

''(Women Power Award)'', highest civilian award for women in India.

References

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Gargi Gupta receiving award from President of India
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gupta, Gargi Living people 20th-century Indian women 20th-century Indian people Indian human rights activists Indian women activists Women educators from West Bengal Educators from West Bengal 1961 births Activists from Kolkata Social workers from West Bengal 21st-century Indian women 21st-century Indian people Nari Shakti Puraskar winners