WITH SEVERE CEREBRAL PALSY BY BIRTH I HAD CHOICE TO CRY OR TO TRY. I DECIDED TO TRY.Bindumadhav Katti welcomes disabled friends.

1. PROFILE
Mr. B.B. Katti, Asst.Manager-Finance
Mr. Bindumadhav B Katti, Asst. Manager – Finance has been
felicitated with a National Award for “Best Employee in the Category
of Physically disabled persons”. The award was given by Hon’ble
President of India, Shri A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on 3rd
Dec 2005.
Mr. Bindumadhav B Katti, suffers Cerebral Palsy since birth. It
is a brain related “Cerebral Artery” disability. People with this kind
of disability are considered as severely disabled with mental
disorder. He has severe involuntary tremors in all parts of body all
the time. This makes almost every activity difficult for him. But he
doesn’t believe so.
Since his childhood till his age of 7, he was not able to walk
and talk hence he had to be carried on shoulders to school. He
studied up to std 4 in a nearby Marathi School in Dombivali. His
parents shifted their residence to Santa Cruz where the nearest
school was an English medium school, and therefore, he had to start
school academics all over again from std 1 in English medium.
Doctors and parents felt that he may not go a long way in
acquiring qualification due to cerebral retardation.
Despite these limitations, he requested his parents to allow
him to acquire higher education after clearing his SSC
examinations(STD X) with first class . Doctors suggested his parents
to put him in vocational courses for physically and mentally
challenged like broom and basket making.
Because of his tenacity and perseverance, today he is an MBA,
specialized in Human Resource Development and post graduation in
Systems Analysis from the University of Mumbai after his
graduation in Commerce.
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2. During his academic years, his physical limitations were
always a hurdle which he braved with his will power and help from
his parents, brother, seniors and office friends.
During all his examinations he had to seek assistance of
university approved writers’. These writers were many a STD lower
to the examination that Mr. Bindumadhav Katti had appeared. It
was indeed a difficult task, while co-coordinating with writer for
solving problems related to Mathematics, Graphs, Statistics and
Analysis etc.
His dedication, hard work, his positive approach towards life,
voluntarily accepting the work and his attitude towards his
superiors and colleagues has led him to this most prestigious
National Award.
He joined Air India, on April 28, 1988 and is presently
working, as Asst. Manager – Finance.
Nature of Work
He has been developing systems for Air-India’s Finance Department
by writing computer programs using (COBOL, BASIC, FoxPro, Oracle
8, Visual Basic 6 and MS-OFFICE). He has been assigned the task of
training the staff and officers in the areas of computerization, Office
automation, and software applications. He works in an ERP-Finance
environment and also trains his colleagues to improve efficiency. He
guides MBA students, who come to Air India for summer projects,
for last 10 years.
He conducts regular training sessions in the organization, in the
area of his expertise. He has imparted computer training to 250
personnel in Finance Department and around 35 in Commercial
Department. He has been appreciated for his educational
achievements and training programs by the Management in our in-
house Magazine “Magic Carpet”. He has been awarded “Merit Award”
and “Special Award” in recognition of his work.
Along with his academics, his interest in sports was similar to
that of any other school goers. Despite his disability he played foot
ball for School Team and chess at college.
Skill Utilization
He is regularly invited, as a H.R.D. faculty to New India
Assurance Co. Ltd., Punjab National Bank and SBI for their
Corporate Training Programs, since last 3 years. The training areas
covered under this program are Communication skills, Motivation,
Marketing Strategies, Behavioral Aspects, Salesmanship, Customer
Services, Stress Management, Art of Positive Thinking, Power of
Mind and Computers. His work has been appreciated several times.
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3. He been appreciated by several Top Management Executives
of Air India and has been awarded Merit Award and Special award in
the year 1995 and 2002 respectively for his excellent performance
in Air-India.
The Director-Finance has appreciated his work in the Air
India in-house Magazine – Magic Carpet.
Air India also nominated him for a “National Award” in
category for “Technology – Disabled Employees” – for year 2000-
2001.
The Y2K related computer problems and In-house software of
Finance Department were handled independently by him. These
programs have not only saved considerable financial outgo for
implementing these systems but also have achieved considerable
saving by the way of in-house maintenance and trouble shooting. All
the programs have been regularly updated to suit to the new
requirements of every user.
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