Of course, you have my newspaper report to back your case. Subramani
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of pamnani Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 6:49 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Secretariat Subject: Re: [AI] experience at the poling booth. Dear Asif, I am glad you had a great experience in Calcutta.So basically Mumbai, Delhi and Calcutta were good though NOIDA just outside Delhi was not and Bangalore was awful. There are mixed reports from other parts of India but mostly it is in the negative. We will have to compile the information that we have received as feedback from everyone and then follow up. No one expected this elections to be without glitches but it was a good start all over India. Thanks for the praise but in this case I dont deserve it. It was Subash Dattrange, Suhas Karnik and Ketan Kothari who stood behind their lawyer Mihir Desai in the Bombay High court and promted him to get the order on the dummy ballot papers in 2004. However it was not an organisation for the visually challenged that filed the first case. The visually challenged just joined the bandwagon. Then it was the disabled community of Jharkhand who got orders from their Court. After which the matters went to the Supreme Court. The efforts of Human Rights Law Network and Javed Abidi's NCPEDP which is praise worthy.It is Javed's team which is compiling the feedback and now and has been interacting with the Election Commission. My mission has always been to encourage people to vote. I used to be very interested in politics when I was in school. This year I had a further reason to encourage people because of the special facilities that we had been promised. My only role has been to give the clarion call on this list. I am just happy that most of you have heard me and exercised your franchise. I am a firm believer that everyone has to claim their rights while doing their duties. We got to help ourselves no one else can. On the macro level we move towards Census 2011 and on another level we move towards standard Examination guidelines. The database is going on well and the railways is my target for July-August.Will keep everyone posted. Kanchan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mohammed Asif Iqbal" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 18:35 Subject: Re: [AI] experience at the poling booth. Dear all, I indeed exercise my right to vote. It was a pleasant experience voting this year. It was nice to see Kanchan Pamnani's initiatives yielding fruits. Poling machines equipped with braille stickers and friendly staff really made an awesome independend voting experience. However my poling station was on first floor and I guess there were no ramp for wheel chair access. Hope concerned authorities would walk the extra miles to make it all inclusive voting experience in the future. Asif 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.i n 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.i n Email secured by TPML Raksha Checkpoint 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
