Dear Access Indian friends, I take this opportunity to bring to your notice one more example of state sponsored discrimination against PWD in implementation of theory of equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation. I also wish to have your comments and suggestions to initiate the appropriate action.
Actually one month back, on the behalf of NFB, Karnataka I filed a RTI application to all the B. Ed colleges of the state for seeking the correct informations about status of reservation of seats for blind and other disables in B. Ed courses. In response to these applications what I have been informed according to that the persons with more than 75% disability are not allowed to seek admission in B. Ed courses in Karnataka. One of the colleges has informed me that they don't give the admission to blind in B. Ed courses because they have no facilities to teach them. Looking forward for you expertise comments and suggestions on the matter. With regards, Gautam Agarwal President, National Federation of the Blind Karnataka Branch Bangalore. Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm 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
