So i wasnt wrong.. the article did have holes that seem unexplained. On 9/1/15, George Abraham <[email protected]> wrote: > I know for sure that athletes like Malathi Holla, a woman on a wheelchair > has won medals at the Paralympics > > On another note, the PCI has always been corrupt. The people who launched > the PCI in India had very close political patronage. In fact the Govt and > the PCI nexus has come in the way as stumbling blocks to the promotion of > Blind Cricket, Blind athletics, Blind Chess and so on. The Govt has been > insisting that any disability sport if needs Govt recognition should be > members of the Paralympics. > > By 2002, I was for over a decade involved in organising several domestic > blind cricket tournaments at State, Zonal and National levels, two World > Cups and still the Govt refused to entertain applications for recognition. > All patronage was for the PCI. At that time the PCI did not have any track > record. It was a small NGO based in Bangalore and most the PCI athletes who > participated in Paralympic Games were mainly from Bangalore. We were told > to become members of PCI. I refused because I did not agree with the > ethics on which the PCI was being run and further cricket was not a > Paralympic sport. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Divyanshu Ganatra > Sent: 31 August 2015 17:42 > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning > the disabled. > Subject: Re: [AI] Business Standard: Call for clean, corruption free > Paralympic Committee > > Any update on this rally? also the article mentiones .. snip > Till now no Indian female > athlete has competed in the Paralympics games snip > wait is thaqt true? can anyone varify this, since i find it hard to > believe. if i am not mistaken i believe we have had women compete in > the paralympics in the past. one more additional thing. the people > quoted like some of the activists, do they happen to be from the > community of PwD's.? > just wondering.. > Divyanshu > > > > > On 8/27/15, Sruti disAbility Rights Centre <[email protected]> wrote: >> In a bid to speed up the process of reconstituting the Paralympic > Committee >> of India <http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India>and >> have a clean and corruption free body, the Civilian Welfare Foundation >> (CWF), an organisation working for the rights of disabled people and >> para-athletes, has organised a walk on August 28, officials said on >> Wednesday. >> >> A recent fiasco at the national para games in Ghaziabad where 800 para >> athletes were deprived of good food, lodging and disability accessibility >> services, has led to the suspension of the PCI. But since then for the > last >> four months there have been no concerns over reforming the committee. >> >> "We want to have a clean and corruption free central body so that the >> ill-treatment of the athletes is never repeated. We want the committee to >> comprise people who would look into the issue of para athletes in the >> country seriously," said CWF member Suchandra Ganguly. >> >> Shampa Sengupta, a disability and gender rights activist, echoed almost > the >> same sentiments and said the right people should be placed in the > committee >> so that they can help para sports develop in the country. >> >> "Para athletes need escorts and coaches to travel with them while going >> abroad, But sometimes the coaches are sidelined as many bureaucrats take >> their place and go with the athletes. We want people in the committee who >> can run it corruption free and look after the well being of the > athletes," >> said Sengupta. >> >> Funnyman and Radio Jockey Mir rued the lack of sponsors catering to the >> need of the para athletes in the country saying they turn their face away >> whenever they are told to sponsor a disabled athlete. >> >> Former Bengal Ranji trophy captain Sambaran Banerjee said the sponsors > only >> ask about the "mileage" they would be getting if they finance an athlete. >> >> The walk, scheduled for Friday, will also deal with the issue of >> participation of women athletes in para sports. 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