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.

Biography

She was born and raised up in Bangaluru, Karnataka. She comes from a very humble background facing financial difficulties at her young age. 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 ''

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''.

Career

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. In 2007, she responded to the request of few NGOs to write exams for blind people. She also completed diploma in computer science and pursuing her education still from the

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. As of 2019, she was reported to have completed writing over 1000 exams for visually impaired people since 2007. She also maintains a

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blog page for blood donors. She received the

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for the year 2018 from the Indian President

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on 8 March 2019 coinciding with the

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