The answer to all this is our ublic (ordinary people of India) who pay for all above. When a minister moves, hundreds of his contingent move along - who knows for what? Or are they all required for the purpose??? Thousands of crores are spent on a minister for his lodging, moving & transport facilities-is it this tiny piece of concession that counts too much???
In order to bring equality of classes you have to give concessions to less privileged classes to eliminate vast gap between privileged & unprivileged. & this ultimately creates a cymetry closely knit from bottom to top where bottom & top mostly look alike giving full-fledged nation in real sense. So I feel concession are welcome here be for a blind, physically challenged or senior citizens. Coming to concession to a blind in particular, I suppose it should be that not because he wants to remain an object of given concessions for always but for many other reasons. For example, my sighted friend may reach his destination just on Rs. 10, I may required 20 more for rickshaw etc. apart from ticket charges. Similarly, for a smooth travel if I arrange an escort, I should pay for him. So how can you say you are spending less than your normal sighted peers??? Now who will bear this cost??? Yes, the involved agencies on public money as this is their responsibilities too to do for poor, weaker sections and many others leaving challenged people apart. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
