There is no certainty of that, if a person with disability starts persuing his / her own agenda after becoming a union minister, who could stop him? Nomination is almost always a bad idea.
Probably the time is coming when geographic representation needs to be supplimented with representation based on specialization. Our current political system is based on geography, where there are MLAs and MPs from an area. But there is a lot common between the persons with disabilities than persons residing in one area. The geographic representation was a compromise as there were few ways to communicate with one another if you lived apart, but with mass media and internet, I guess it is not that hard now. BTW, Mr. Jaypal Reddy is a person with disability, but he prefers to stay away from issue of persons with disability, probably he does not want to be labelled with a nich population. Regards Dinesh Kaushal "An absence of overriding personal ambition together with shrewd common sense are among the essential components of wisdom" blog at dineshkaushal.blogspot.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of chandru shekar Sent: 31 March 2009 04:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] Governments, parties neglecting disabled citizens: CPI-M in my opinion, someone visually impaired person has to become union minister then only our problems may be solved. we have to put pressure on president to nominate v i p to parliament. regards. m.chandru On 3/31/09, Pradeep banakar <[email protected]> wrote: > Governments, parties neglecting disabled citizens: CPI-M > > Thaindian News > New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) > Monday accused the successive governments and the mainstream political > parties of neglecting disabled citizens. > "Successive governments and mainstream political parties have utterly failed > disabled citizens by ignoring and neglecting their issues," said CPI-M > politburo member Brinda Karat, while releasing the party's pamphlets for > women, Dalits, tribals and disabled here. > > "The Congress-led government's slogan of 'inclusive growth' rings hollow > when seen in relation to the rights, needs and requirements of the disabled > or differently abled population in India, even though they constitute at > least six percent of the population," she said. > > According to the CPI-M, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's > record on providing job opportunities for the disabled had been dismal. > > It noted Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had announced a scheme of providing > 100,000 jobs per annum to persons with disabilities, with a proposed outlay > of Rs.18 billion (Rs.1800 crore) during the 11th Plan in the 2006-07 Budget. > > However, Chidambaram himself admitted some time later that "not a single > recruitment has been made six months after the scheme was announced," the > CPI-M said. > > The CPI-M called for a special employment guarantee scheme to be designed > for disabled people in all parts of the country that provides them suitable > employment, ensuring at least minimum wages throughout the year. > > The Persons With Disabilities (PWD) Act provides three percent reservation > in jobs in all government and public sector units for the disabled. The > share of the disabled against the total strength in actual terms is barely > 0.44 percent as against their estimated population of 5-6 percent, it said. > > > > 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 > 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 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
