dear Rajesh, thanks for the news but we will be grateful if you give a link of the source also you got the news from! regards
On 20/08/2008, Asudani, Rajesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Special > Correspondent > > Panel to ensure job quota for them > > They also get bus fare concession > > CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Tuesday said a high-level > committee headed by Social Welfare Minister Geetha Jeevan will monitor the > recruitment > of persons with disabilities to government departments to ensure that the > three per cent reservation for them is adhered to. > > He announced a slew of concessions for them, after a meeting with their > representatives. The government would announce a separate policy for them. > > After the DMK assumed office, about three lakh persons had been appointed > in various government departments. As many as 9,000 of these vacancies > should > have been filled up by persons with disabilities. The association > representatives submitted that only a few persons with disabilities had been > employed > and that there was a large number of vacancies. > > All persons with disabilities working on consolidated pay basis for more > than two years would be granted timescale pay. > > The Chief Minister conceded another crucial demand: bus fare concession. > The association had submitted that the Railways granted them travel > concession > and requested that the State government to provide the same. After > discussing the matter with officials, Mr. Karunanidhi said that persons > certified with > disability could travel in State-owned buses by paying one-fourth of the > fare. There would be no restriction on their travel. > > Mr. Karunanidhi said that a request would be made to manufacturing giants > setting shop in Tamil Nadu to recruit persons with disabilities on a > priority > basis. The request would be made when the State government enters into > memoranda of understanding with the firms. > > The State government would contribute the mandatory 5 per cent "own > contribution" for persons with disabilities for availing grants under a new > plan of > the Union government. The new Central employment scheme of the Prime > Minister mandated that the persons with disabilities invest 5 per cent of > the total > grant amount. > > The government would exempt persons with disabilities studying in > government and government-aided institutes of higher education from paying > fees. The concessions > available for the visually impaired would be made available to all persons > with disabilities. > > Thanking Mr. Karunanidhi, the representatives said his daughter Kanimozhi > had been supporting their cause for the past four years. Pat came Mr. > Karunanidhi's > reply: "So you had a sympathiser in my house itself." > > > ________________________________ > 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 > 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] 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 > -- Warm regards, Subhash Chandra Vashishth Mobile : +91-11-9811125521 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
