E On 2/15/10, SC Vashishth <[email protected]> wrote: > Rajesh, The agitation seems to have taken centre stage rather than your > suggestions for Amendments to the Disability Laws! > > > Source: > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Police-called-in-as-blind-fight/articleshow/5571234.cms > > Police called in as blind fight > > TNN, 14 February 2010, 07:08am IST > > NAGPUR: The two-day bi-annual conference of the National Federation of Blind > (Maharashtra) was disrupted in the second session by a group of discontent > members alleging non-democratic process of making amendments in the > federation's constitution. > > The situation led to utter chaos due to shouting of slogans by the two > groups at Amrut Bhavan on North Ambazari Road. The members attending the > conference, which was earlier inaugurated by the commissioner of police > Praveen Dixit and the mayor Archana Dehankar, had to be calmed down by > police intervention during the following session of the general body meeting > (GBM). > > The agitating members alleged that they were barred from entering the > conference premises while the present office bearers of the federation > levelled charges of misappropriation of funds and certain illegal deals in > sale of land by the past executive committee which had been in power since > last 13 years. > > Speaking to TOI, the conference hosts from the city, Rewaram Temburnikar and > Manish Thool, who is the secretary of the Vidarbha branch of the federation, > said that the group which had disrupted the proceedings had ruled the > federation for past 13 years. They alleged that the past executive committee > had manipulated funds and had also made certain illegal land purchase or > sale deals. > > "There are actually two groups in the federation. The present executive body > led by the president MY Guru and general secretary Vasant Hegde were elected > through democratic elections in the presence of the charity commissioner at > Pune. In today's conference out of the 2800 registered delegates only 1100 > turned up and all were given batches and gate passes. But some members from > the opposing group tried to force in shouting slogans and throwing chairs > refusing to show their gate passes to the volunteers from the Ishwar > Deshmukh College of Physical Education and Nashikrao Tirpude Physical > Education college. So we were forced to call the police," said Thool. > > But the agitating members, led by former general secretary Dattatreya Jadhav > shouted anti-police slogans of 'lathi charge on blind people', and > aggressively argued that the present body did not involve them in the > process of making the proposed amendments in the federation's constitution. > "They used force of sighted volunteers to throw us out which was totally > uncalled for. Every decision in the GBM has to be passed by two-third > majority and prior circulation of the points to all members. This is the > first time that in 30 years history of the federation that such a situation > arose," said Jadhav claiming that he would not keep quiet and seek judicial > intervention. > > THROWING LIGHT > > During the first session, Rajesh Asudani, independent disability consultant > from city called for major amendments in the disability law. Some of the > major suggestions include ... > > * Changes in definition of disability demanding that category of low vision > be deemed as mildly blind and care should be taken to avoid cases where a > person would medically fall into neither blind nor low vision > > * Mainstreaming disability: every implementing bodies be made more > representative of disabled. All constitutional bodies from panchayat to > parliament should have at least one disabled representative > > * Bifurcation of reservations for severely and moderately disabled > > * Demanding central government's plan of allocating three per cent of the > total budget on disabled as per the government's commitment in the XI five > year plan which has not been implemented so far. > > * Audit of all government grants to all NGOs and should include expenditure > on disabled > > -- > Warm regards, > > Subhash Chandra Vashishth > Mobile: +91 (11) 9811125521 > Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. Consider > environment! > > > 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 > Hellow Friends I want UGC circular. Regarding submitting assignment in printed paper. If there Circular is there please send me Friends.
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