What do our 3 major organisations for the Blind say about this? Can nothing be done from Calcutta ?
Kanchan Pamnani Advocate & Solicitor 9, Suleman Chambers, Battery Street, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 039. ----- Original Message ----- From: "prateek aggarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:18 PM Subject: [AI] Assam Blind Students struggle for Books and Jobs > Assam Blind Students struggle for Books and Jobs > > Guwahati, July 24, 2008 > > Continuing their hunger strike for the last ten days, the All Assam > Blind Students Union members today being arrested when came to the > capital to block the road and gherao the secretariat. The Blind > students are fighting for their legal rights in the state for the last > more than five years who are still deprive from the job opportunity. > > Every time the students raise their voice they are being treated as a > second class, alleged the union who seeks the Govt. help for their > future. "We are being under estimate every time we raise our demands. > They always deprived us from the jobs that have been allotted to us > and no facility is still being implemented for the Blind students in > the state", said Uddhav Kalita, spokesperson of the Blind Students' > Union. > > When the assembly is called the blind students try to get noticed for > their demands and the procedure is some how taking a more time than it > should have been, revealed a source of the RTI office. While the Govt. > sources are still giving them hopes by saying that the demands are > taken to concern and will be effective soon. "We are trying our level > best to streamline the blind students' demands and hope it will be > done in short time", stated the Govt. official source. > > Today, the Blind students came on the roads and being barricaded by > the state security and arrested thereafter. "The students went > aggressive and left with no option but to arrest them", said Bayan, > Adl. SP, City adding that "we tried to make them discipline and many > of them have already been taken to medical treatment after they broke > of the fast. The students have been on fast unto death since 14th and > it's a critical situation now and the administration can't take the > chance". > > "No Braille books and academic structure is planned and implemented in > the state, we don't have even higher education facilities. The > Government of Assam has passed the decision to make a Braille book > publishing House in the state, which is still in no scenery", said > Anima, a blind student who shined in the last High School exams. She > also added that apart from the unavailability of the books the Assam > Government is not providing the back log jobs allotted to them under > special quotas. "Our fast unto death is a symbolic demonstration of > the situation that we are going through; we still urge the authority > to implement their duties to us in a proper way" she demanded. > > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > Registration is now open! > > 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 > Join Access India convention: For updates on it visit: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Registration is now open! 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
