Khela Hobe – A Football Event for Visually Impaired, Physically / Specially Abled and Women team was announced recently.

The press conference and song launch was graced by Alvito D’Cunha, International Footballer, Madan Mitra, MLA, Syed Rahim Nabi, Indian Footballer, Subrata Bhattacharya, Veteran Footballer, Suvro Joarder, Cricketer, Jojo Mukherjee, Eminent Singer and the official singer of “Khela Hobe”; Prabir Sarkar, International Para Athlete(Asian Games long jump silver medalist); PranayPoddar, Hon Consul of Kenya and many others.

This is a Nobel initiative by Sarmista Acharya (a social activist), Ankit Shaw (Celebrity Anchor and Mr. India Face of West Bengal), and Junction House.

There are currently more than one billion disabled people in the world. This amounts to around 15 percent of the global population. According to the World Health Organization, almost everyone will temporarily or permanently experience disability at some point in their life. Disability is a part of being human. Yet disabled people still face social, physical, and other barriers that exclude them from everyday life opportunities. Football is loved by everyone all over the world and this passion is also common amongst millions of specially-abled people too. Indeed, more disabled people than ever before are participating in the world’s most popular sport.

With this event, the specially-abled people will be able to enjoy the sport of football.

Priyanka Dutta