Visually impaired Indian-American Sachin Dev Pavithran to head US agency for the disabled

December 3, 2012

Obama named a visually impaired Indian-American Sachin Dev Pavithran to head an independent US agency devoted to people with disabilities.

Sachin Dev Pavithran will soon become a member of the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, the agency which is also known as the Access Board.
The Access Board was established in 1973 to ensure design standards across the US to enable access to the physically impaired.