Hello Kanchan,
Hope, now you are back home. Employees State Insurance Corporation is under
the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment. Subhas C. Vashishth of this
list has taken up the issue with the cCD.
You are right. I am facing the same problem. My organisation does not have
the necessary man power or resources to persist with litigations. I was
entrusted recently with two such cases, one against the School Service
Commission and the other against state Public Service Commission. In both
these cases the respective advocates have asked me to first collect certain
papers and data. I am really at a loss in finding them. My friends are
trying to gather them. But we are all volunteers. We devote only our leisure
in such matters.
Best regards,
Amiyo Biswas.
Cell: +91-9433464329
Skype ID: amiyo11
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamnani" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] Discrimination between Totally Blind and Low Vision
People.
Amiyo da, Has your state government identified jobs for the disabled?
Check which jobs are being advertised and if West bengal has identified
these jobs for the Blind then you can raise an issue.This means identified
for totally Blind but advertised for Partially Sighted.
If these jobs are not identified by the State Government but by the
Central Government then also you have a chance. This means not proper
identification.
If West Bengal has not identified any jobs then you have a good case. This
is violation of the Act.
Please go to Court and not the Disability Commissioner.
Also note that it is not the noise made at the street level that works but
the effort put in by organisations to sit with volumes of paper in the
language of the state.
It takes days of work to really see the discrimination. In Mumbai NAB
officials had to sit for days to see if the identification was proper. No
lawyer can help in this job. It is thankless and back breaking.
Checking advertisements against identification is also difficult.
Easiest is if the state has not identified then you just have to file a
writ petition stating that there is a violation of the Act.
Dont take up these issues if your organisation does not have sustained
time and money. Half hearted attempts ruin the matter completely.
The Maharashtra case is pending since 2002. Without resources I find
myself constrained. I am not inclined to push the matters because of my
resource crunch. No body else including the judiciary realises that the
Blind community is suffering because of the delay.
even then do not go to the Commissioner of Disability.
Write to me on this issue only after Monday since I will be in
Bhubaneshwar for the weekend.
Kanchan
Kanchan Pamnani
Advocate & Solicitor
9, Suleman Chambers,
Battery Street, Colaba,
Mumbai - 400 039.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amiyo Biswas" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 12:34 PM
Subject: [AI] Discrimination between Totally Blind and Low Vision People.
Hello,
Employees State Insurance Corporation recently advertised in the latest
Employment News a job notice for recruiting about 100 LDCs. In case of
reserved posts for vh candidates, they have specified that only persons
having visual disability from 40% to 74% can apply. If I remember
correctly, there was a protest in Maharashtra against such discrimination
between low vision people and the totally blind people. I would like to
know if we can do anything about it. This Corporation is under the Labour
and Employment department of the Central Government.
Best regards,
Amiyo Biswas.
Cell: +91-9433464329
Skype ID: amiyo11
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