Akhil has played a pivotal role in making deafblind people a known entity in the region. From 1989, Akhil worked with National Association for the Blind (India) for 7 years in reaching out to rural blind through Community Based Rehabilitation.
In 1997, he took up the challenge of developing services for deafblind when not even handful of people knew what deafblindness was and nurtured the movement to the extent that today, from one service in 1997 to in more than 60 in 24 states in India as well as in Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia.
Today Sense India has transformed lives of more than 84,000 deafblind people and ensuring their rightful inclusion in our society. Under Akhil’s leadership, Sense India has created networks of teachers, deafblind adults, and their families. He has succeeded in creating a dedicated team to ensure that deafblind people are ‘seen & heard’.
- Founder Member of the National Trust for welfare of People with Autism, Cerebral palsy, Mental retardation and Multiple disabilities set up by Act of Law by Government of India.
- Member- Drafting Committee for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act-2016
- Global Vice President of International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI)
- Board Member of ‘Deafblind International’ (DbI), a global umbrella organization looking into the education of deafblind.