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
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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.
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