madam, please send a draft letter to the group. so, we can easily copy-paste
your draft and mail or send hard copy to the appropriate authotities.
thanks,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kanchan Pamnani" <[email protected]>
To: "Access India" <[email protected]>; "Voice Vision. "
<[email protected]>
Cc: "Secretariat" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: 01 June, 2011 9:09 AM
Subject: [AI] Railways concession
This is with reference to the discussion last week. OK folks, We have to
start one more fight.
Yes there is no concession for the visually challenged on Shatabdi and
Rajdani at present. Tried reaching the top and got a negative response.
Was told to ask organisations to write demanding the concession. They
will look at it if there is some requests.
This denial of concession is because
the wrong term "physically disabled" was used in the budget speech by the
Minister
a. This may have been done intentionally so as to restrict the concessions
to the orthopedically challenged or
b. Inadvertently using "physically" to cover all the disabilities which
do not include the mentally challenged. This is done very often .
Whatever the reason, we have a problem.
1. Please someone copy the exact paragraph from the railway budget and
post it here on both the lists.
2. Please post the snail mail and email addresses of
a. Mamta banerjee
b. Vivek Sahay the Railway Board Chairman
c. The 3 ministers of State for Railways
d. The Pm since he is directly looking after railways until a cabinet
minister is appointed.
3. Whatever line you want to take, either telling them that there has been
a mistake in use of the wrong word or the interpretation of the word, the
visually challenged cannot be left out.
4. Many of the organisations who have representatives on these list can
check the past corespondence as I know many of them have been making these
demands for years.
5. Now of course it is up to each one of us to do our bit and send the
letters/emails in our personal capacities not depending only on the
organisations. Though I request all organisations to take this up
urgently.
6. For the first time I am going to request each of you who does really
write, to please copy the mail to access India. I know that this will
increase the traffic on the list and the moderator will send me a stinker
but there are 3 particular reasons-
a. Accessindia mails get prominently reflected on google search. I have no
technical idea as to why this happens but it does. The more noise we make
the more publicity we get and the more influence we have.
b. Let us really see who is writing and doing their bit and lets see who
is just making noise on the group and faltering when it comes to actual
work.
c. This will inspire others to write and will also help others to copy
words in case we are stuck for words.
We need to take care of this problem urgently and have the Railway
Ministry issue a clarification otherwise we will have to wait for the next
Budget.
Kanchan
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