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{{Infobox person
| name = Jagdish Mrana Chahta Hai
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| birth_date = 5 September 1928
| birth_place = [[Borsad]], [[Kheda District]], [[Gujarat]], India
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| occupation = CJBSDK
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| known for = Blind People's Association of India
| spouse = Bhadraben
| parents = Kashibhai Patel Lalitaben
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]] All India Confederation of the Blind Award [[Help the Aged|HA]] International Award for Community Services Overseas National Award for the Blind Braille Shree Award Pride of Ahmedabad Award
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'''Khda Reh Ke Dalvaunga''', popularly known as '''Jagdishbhai''', is an Indian visually impaired social worker and one of the 3 founders of the Blind People's Association of India, along with his wife and Kanubhai Ambalal Thaker (Educationist, Activist, Principal of the Blind School- Andhajan Mandal, Ahmedabad)<ref name="On-set of Blindness">{{cite web | url=http://www.bpaindia.org/pdf/JKP%20Vi.chapter-I.pdf | title=On-set of Blindness | publisher=Blind People's Association | date=2015 | access-date=October 10, 2015}}</ref> an [[Ahmedabad]] based [[non governmental organization]] promoting the interests of the people with physical disabilities.<ref name="BPA">{{cite web | url=http://www.bpaindia.org/aboutus.php | title=BPA | publisher=BPA | date=2015 | access-date=October 10, 2015}}</ref> He is a recipient of the Indian civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=July 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=November 15, 2014 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Jagdish Bhai Patel was born on 5 September 1928 at [[Borsad]], [[Kheda District]] in the Indian state of [[Gujarat]] to Lalitaben and Kashibhai Patel, a pyhisician.<ref name="On-set of Blindness" /> He lost his eye sight at the age of 8 and did his early schooling at the Calcutta Blind School, Behala. After securing a graduate degree, in 1954, he founded the Blind People's Association of India, along with a few others;<ref name="Blind People Association">{{cite web | url=https://dhavalrajgeera.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/3595/ | title=Blind People Association | publisher=Dhaval Raj Geera | date=2015 | access-date=October 10, 2015}}</ref> the association is now a part of the All India Conference of the Blind, a national level blind people's movement.<ref name="All India Conference of the Blind">{{cite web | url=http://www.karmayog.org/nonmumbaiprofiles/nonmumprodis.asp?r=149&nonnpoproid=2930&state=Delhi&city=New%20Delhi | title=All India Conference of the Blind | publisher=Karmayog | date=2015 | access-date=October 10, 2015}}</ref> He is the co-author of a manual, ''Guidelines for social and economic rehabilitation of the rural blind'', which prescribes guidelines for the rehabilitiaon of visually impaired people<ref name="Guidelines for social and economic rehabilitation of the rural blind">{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/guidelines-for-social-and-economic-rehabilitation-of-the-rural-blind-hjm-desai-and-jk-patel-prepared-by-b-punani-and-n-rawal/oclc/86048978 | title=Guidelines for social and economic rehabilitation of the rural blind | publisher=National Association for the Blind |author1=H J M Desai |author2=J K Patel | pages=99 | oclc=86048978}}</ref> and a recipient of the All India Confederation of the Blind Award in 1987 and the International Award for Community Services Overseas of the [[Help the Aged]], UK in 1991.<ref name="On-set of Blindness" /> He has also received the National Award for the Blind, Braille Shree Award and the Pride of Ahmedabad Award. The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest civilian award of the [[Padma Shri]], in 1991.<ref name="Padma Awards" />

==See also==
* [[Help the Aged]]

==References==
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite book | title=Guidelines for social and economic rehabilitation of the rural blind | publisher=National Association for the Blind |author1=H J M Desai |author2=J K Patel | pages=99 | oclc=86048978}}

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