"I want to congratulate you on passing your B.Com examinations with distinction in all subjects", he said in a letter to Harshitha C, a student of Mount Carmel college, Bengaluru.
Harshitha and Chandna Chandrasekhar had taken up the issue of removal of customs duty on Braille hardware with the Congress vice president when he had visited their Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru in November, 2015. Gandhi then raised the issue with the NDA government, which declared the tax exemption in the budget announced for the on-going fiscal.
Admiring Harshitha and Chandana for their initiative to see the import duty is removed, Gandhi noted their action resulted in a change in the law, helping "crores" of blind citizens across the country.
Underlining the challenges ahead and how they could be overcome, Gandhi told Harshitha that "societies build walls around people telling them why they cannot do things, walls of gender, caste, religion, or blindness - we are taught that these walls are insurmountable. But they are not.
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