Hello every one: This time I have come with a few recommendations from my side for PWD act1995. They are as follows: 1. Firstly, we should change the name of this act “PERSONS WITH DISABILITY” to “PERSONS WITH INABILITIES” act, Or The persons with different abilities act. The term Disability, may send a very wrong connotation in to one’s mind as bad attracts first than the good. 2. According to the act, we are entitled for three % reservation in all the jobs advertised for and by the government offices and companies. Out of this three %, we (All visually Impaired persons) enjoy 1 % of the three % of vacancies. In this way, there are many jobs or the vacancies which are not or can’t be given for the visually impaired by the government since they cannot execute the duties pertaining to that job. For example: bus and train drivers and conducters, Doctors, nurses, police constables and so on. There are many jobs or the vacancies that we cannot pursue as per the governament’s understanding of the visually impaired. Similarly, there are many jobs and vacancies which are identified as VI friendly jobs. That is, the jobs like teachers, attenders, lecturers, clerks etc. My advice is that, why can’t we request or demand the government to shift that 1% of vacancies that are not recognized by the government as blind friendly to the jobs that are recognized by the government as blind friendly. That is, why can’t we have more vacancies in teaching and other areas since they have been identified by the government as blind friendly jobs. This enables more visually impaired to be employed, as it is very important for a VI to be financially independent than the rest of the society. This might be a very difficult task for the NGOs and the government, since still there are plenty of complaints about the improper implementation of the existing act. 3. Recently, I have read a notification from BHEL regarding the special recruitment drive for PWD. This notification advertised a couple of vacancies for language officers, but it clearly states that these vacancies are for the partially blind only. When the government boasts itself as the impartial and unbiased body to govern each and every individual irrespective of their cast, creed, religion and so on with equality, why such a huge discrimination? Is there any term like partially blind in the 1995 PWD act? If there is, such terms and priorities should be curbed and removed from the act. I clearly opine that the first priority should be given for those who are 100% or the complete visually impaired. As result of such discrimination, the government may neglect the complete blind in the future. Besides this, there are bank application forms which ask the percentage of your impairment. Based on the data available with them, what if they neglect totally blind and prefer only the partially blind? Therefore, I seriously asume that, this gap or the discrimination has to be abolished from the governament’s dictionary. 4. All the people who discriminate or insult a differently abled should strongly punished like SC and ST’s. Why should we be punished for something which is not a crime? 5. Is there any committee to supervise the implementation of this act? If so, what are their duties and responsibilities? In the absence of such supervising committee, what is the platform to express our difficulties? Therefore we should have some supervising committee to express our dissatisfactions, problems, difficulties and so on. Before I conclude, I request all the legal experts to comment on these recommendations. I’m not a legal expert therefore I seek your valuable comments and feedback. Thanks in advance, Govind. -- "A consistent man believes in destiny; where as a capricious man in chance". Mobile: 9959392651, 9030915271. Email: [email protected] My blog: http://govindhowsweet.blogspot.com
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