True. In the absence of social security, assured jobs are one of the best, if not the only means for the blind to lead a dignified life. Things like self-employment and entrepreneurship can be endeavoured but the failure will be catastrophic.
Subramani -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rajesh Asudani Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:18 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] IT sector starts shedding its differently abled resources. a steady government job, in my view, with all its attendant evils is a safe and sure bait for a disabled person-more so for a visually impaired. Call me radical if you like. But we would be doing a great wrong in forsaking the fight for reservation and accurate identification and equal opportunities without any discrimination in government sector. Totally blind, all over india, and more so in maharashtra, have nil fresh job opportunities despite all legal and governmental harangues. Rajesh -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sudhir R (NeSTIT) Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:49 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] IT sector starts shedding its differently abled resources. > Hi folks ! > > Hope the list members recollect an issue I had raised about six months back - about the so-called new employers of the differently abled, the IT & ITES companies, keeping the disabled resources on long periods of contract, without confirming them. > > The ensuing discussion had centred on the benefits of the contract system and how it was really progressive. The issue was swept under the carpet unlike other "serious" issues like discrimination by airlines against the visually challenged, the mistakes in grammar in the list postings, etc. > > Now that the IT sector has started feeling the heat of the Rupee appreciation and the US economic melt-down, the poor disabled resources have started getting contract termination notices. Funnily, a multinational behemoth which describes itself as an equal opportunity employer and draws lot of media publicity from this is one of the first to initiate action that might impact some of our own list members. > > There is little that we can do but sit and watch as the most important social security mechanism available to the Indian blind, a steady job, is kicked out from their grasp thanks to biased corporate policies. While appreciating the fact that job mobility is the in-thing in a globalised existence, let us not forget that the disadvantaged in India, like us disabled, do not have an elaborate social security mechanism to fall back on in such circumstances. > > Finally, when all the hype dies down, the only recourse to the disabled who are not from well-heeled families may still be government jobs and / or traditional sectors like teaching, vocational trades and self-employment. > > Rgds > > RS > M: 98 472 76 126 > > 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.i n Notice: The information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, use, review, distribution, printing or copying of the information contained in this e-mail message and/or attachments to it are strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail or telephone and immediately and permanently delete the message and any attachments. Thank you 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.i n 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
