Operation Blue Freedom

Context:

• Recently, the Government of India has accorded sanction to Team CLAW to lead a team of people with disabilities to scale Siachen Glacier.

Key highlights of Operation Blue Freedom:

• People with disabilities from across the country will undertake an expedition till Siachen Glacier to create a new World Record for the largest team of people with disabilities to reach the world’s highest battlefield.
• The team of people with disabilities trained by ‘Team CLAW’ a team of Armed Forces verterans.
• The selected people with disabilities from across the country will undertake an expedition till Kumar Post (Siachen Glacier) to create a new World Record for the largest team of people with disabilities to reach the world’s highest battlefield.
• On the occasion of Independence Day, the Cabinet Minister Dr. Virendra Kumar will flag off the vehicle convoy carrying the Divyanjan Siachen Glacier expedition team from Dr.Ambedkar International Centre, 15 Janpath New Delhi, which is a premier autonomous research body mandated to research and provide policy feed to empower marginalised communities and to bring in Socio Economic transformation in the society.
• The successful execution of this pioneering expedition, ‘Operation Blue Freedom’, shall firmly place India on the global stage as a leader in empowering Divyangjan and set a benchmark for other nations to emulate.
• This will drive The Prime Minister, vision for Divyangjan and MSJE’s pursuit to harness the immense productive potential of people with Simultaneously, it will powerfully portray the skill and heart of India’s Armed Forces not only on the Battlefield but off it as well.

About Operation Blue Freedom:

• ‘Operation Blue Freedom’ was launched in 2019 by Team C.L.A.W – A team of Indian Special Forces veterans, set upon a global mission to shatter the common perception of pity, charity and inability associated with people with disabilities and recreate it to one of dignity, freedom and ability.
• Team CLAW’s founder Major Vivek Jacob served 14 years as a Special Forces operator.
• Team C.L.A.W travelled across India and trained more than 100 people in ‘Rehabilitative SCUBA Diving’.
• Through this journey, the team’s vision expanded to address the entire spectrum of issues faced by people with disabilities.
• Team C.L.AW is in the process of setting up centres across the globe where-in Special Forces Veterans and People with Disabilities are merging in action for creating a better life experience, for not only persons with disability but the non-disabled as well.