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issue 1 
september-october 2004
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Sports associations for the blind
The International Blind Sports Federation and its Indian counterpart are actively engaged in promoting sports for the blind.
Since
the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) was founded in Paris in 1981,
it has been in a constant process of evolution to adapt to the ever-changing
world of sports for the blind. The IBSA, a full member of the International
Paralympic Committee (IPC), is a non-profit corporation incorporated in Spain.
The main goal of the Federation is to promote and foster sports for the blind
and visually impaired, either directly or indirectly, through the authorities
of all nations, the homogenisation of the bodies or entities responsible for
this area and the legal treatment that should be afforded to them.
The Indian Blind Sports Association (also called IBSA) has 105 institutions from 20 states in India affiliated as its members. IBSA is the largest representative sports body devoted to the promotion of cricket among the visually challenged in the country. The Association was formally established in 1986 through the initiative of Blind Relief Association (BRA), Delhi. Jointly with BRA it has been organising National Sports Meets for the blind which bring together several hundred blind sportspersons from all over the country once in two years.
You can contact IBSA at:
Indian Blind Sports Association,
Address: Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg,
New Delhi 110003, India.
Phone: 91 11 436 13 76.
Fax. 91 11 436 4730.
E-mail: lbsbra@delhi1.mtnl.net.in
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