Friends following are some of the aricles written by me and else you can read on www.ahsaas.mediaactiongroup.in Blind government for the blind people Boasting leaders and shouting slogans of the government are not only lull for the deaf people infact voice sensitive blind people are feeling frustrated and irritated with the discriminatory bureaucracy and slumbering leaders in their palaces. Government of Rajasthan has not fulltime commissioner who has responsibility of protection to person with disabilities as per the section 60 of the act of 1995 for the protection and equal opportunity of person with disabilities in the nation. In the state of Rajasthan the 1.8 million population of disabled seem to be left on the mercy of god. State has not any public sector Braille press for the blind; contrary to this central minister for finance has declared the budget for the same in 2014-2015 loudly. Similarly the chief minister has declared the budget for the purpose of making public building accessible for the person with disabilities this year only; but the lower and local government seem to be unaware and innocent about all those provisions and determined to make it a mockery. Therefore I am confirmed now it is all a dual face of right wing governments which shows and says that we can give effective governance but it is fake and cruel joke with most vulnerable section of the society. As from last year even after the court of commissioner (part time) orders to various government departments of Rajasthan but it is a specifically anyideal and slow trail of red tape for person with disabilities. If a disabled activist decides to pericipate or get accessible a under construction building then he or she has to take up a lot of pain. Recently a public library in jaipur at tonk phatak taken a whole lot of year of mine where regular follow up with the department could not be possible for severely disabled person ;there is no any effective or strong window or powerful platform where we can raise or put up our complaint this example showing its capabilities lower than person with disabilities. Height of the insensitivity is clear by a example of newly constructed building of directorate of specially abled persons in Jaipur has not a accessible toilet for wheel chair users and continuous reminders and protest not able to make impact over irresponsible government; however the hnble minister has declared to make hundred public buildings accessible for person with disabilities in coming year but still I am not able to fetch the list of those so called hundred buildings of the state. The various schemes designed by the government; for the welfare of the disabled persons is discriminatory and seem to be ineffective in empowerment of this community. For example in scholarship scheme for PWD’s family income bar for person with disabilities is rupees hundred thousand whereas it is two hundred and fifty thousand for the SC’s ST’s in the state; similarly for the promotion of marriages with person with disabilities fetch only twenty five thousand rupees to a family where as scheme for SC’s and ST’s provides for five lack rupees to a married couple; this situation is when more than fifty percent of disabled are not married and deprived of their basic physical need of sex for their life time.. This is literally inhumane and compels to think over the tragic situations of person with disabilities. The narrow vision of the governments is visible by a scheme where the locomotor affected persons are getting tricycles on irregular basis but there is no scheme for person with visual impairment in the state where they can be supplemented to their efficiency with a expensive screen reader software. They are in the situation when they are not having their representation in legislative assembly and abled body decides their fate. This trouble some experience does not stops here and similar hard some situations extends to steps of judiciary as well where long waiting representation to honorable chief justice is still awaiting for justice which demands early or priority disposal of cases pending related to disabled petitioners; this is complimented with inaccessible high court building for disabled litigants. Therefore these situations compel we disabled to enter into electoral politics and mobilize their community of disabled somewhere about ten percent of total population of the nation; and this motivation or strategy is formulated with experiences and success stories of struggles of women or sc’s and st’s.
Impact of Ahsaas campaign. Usually some of the citizens or readers want to read about the impact of the campaign as we have a one set of agenda that is the “Change”I am very sad to share that the bureaucracy is such a insensitive and ar not any more human for us..They seem not to function and slumbering.this long fifteen days of the campaign made some kind of the positive environment with blowing aspirations of person with disabilities. A half hearted step is taken by the government is very candidly shown in the newly repaired toilet of the building where they have installed the accessible toilet in the wrong direction where the person with disability on the wheel chair can not reach the pot comfortably on ground floor of the S.A.P. building.in this case it is very ironical that this department has forgotten to mention its name the list sent by it to the central government as we know that the building of the Coordination is What? When a Physically challenge fellow of mine pulled the feet of Hnble minister and layed himself in front of his SUV.Hnble Minister directly came out with anger on the face with a shouting voice on Sudama saying “When you came to me and I am not responsible for the JDA and Nagar Nigam operations.” I was surprised to listen these words of the Chirman himself of the State Coordination Committee. On disabled issues. Where all the top bureaucrats of all important departments of the governments have to sit once in a semester to resolve the issues of person with disabilities. Where he can give remedy to long pending wounds of PWD’s in the state,but dear readers you will be agonized to know that this so called committee has to not only sit in a semester instead has to have participation of PWD’s in the committee as per the law of the parliament.This committee is not having time once to sit in four years from 2010 to 2014 and thereafter it has become annual as the Hnble minister has very much busy schedules of innaugurations,public meetings and party programmes. Now It is upto you what is important? Freedom for Education awaited…. As being the student of Law college,University of Rajasthan,when I moved my blind stick to the central library for finding suitable and appropriate reading material.I could not get more than frustration and mere promises. The university’s central library is not accessible for person with visual impaired even after the sixty years of freedom but university claim to have a braille wing in this library. University is not able to provide me books in accessible format of my choice yet as it has been more than eight months of struggle with the officials of the library.. Infact the director and other library staff seem to be totally ignorant about the facilities and technologies available to person with visual impaired,they were happy to have a trial version of screen reader installed on their one computer kept in last corner of the library.which is not easily accessible. The catalogue of the library is not in e-text format too.Now we can understand the gravity of the problem that we are not even able to get a list of books kept in library forget about reding the same. They are not only breaching our right infact they are ignorant about their professional principle which says the every reader must get its book.said by ranganathan father of library science. For your ready reference the copy of their reply is attached here with which shows how much seriousness prevails in the decision makers of the university. However thanks to the wel equipped libraries of other universities like J.N.U.;(Hellen Keller centre where blind students can read twenty four hours with the help of latest gadgets available in market place.and Delhi University which have done some work for making library services to person with disabilities by which,I could manage seven books from programme of study. State has not a public sector braille press where Person with visual impairement can manage to get converted their books of choice.However Central government has made budget provisions in year 2014-2015 for the same but even after sixty year of freedom we are not able to see any progress on this front.Story does not stops here My application is still pending in the department of specially abled for giving me a apparatus by which I can study myself for persuing higher education.we can see that Person with physical handicap are provided with tricycle,wheelchair and motorized tricycle but there is no attention towards the need of person with visual impairement in the state and no such cheme prevails by which we can also get basic right of education. -- Thanks&Regards, Sharad Tripathi Mob.- 09828545636 Jaipur Follow me on- Twitter- Sharad Tripathi (sinceresharad) Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. 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