My appriciation to Mr Shekhar Gupta Editor in Chief Indian Express and Utkarsh Aanand legal correspondant and Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Ashutosh Varshney towering academicians and contributing Editors to The Indian Express.
after the disposal of this landmark judgment Your paper has been in forefront in not only giving it front page top priority but by coming up with an editorial you have alerted the governments to innitiate multiproned strategies to usher in true inclusion of disabled people to ensure citizenship status to disabled. Thank you for realising the profoundness of this judgment. Keep up the good work, your paper rocks. On 10/10/13, Asudani, Rajesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Not just jobs > Indian express editorial > SC directive on reservation for people with disabilities must enforce a > wider stocktaking. > With the Supreme Court directing the Central and state governments to ensure > reservation of at least 3 per cent of all jobs for the disabled, another > step has been taken to reverse the shockingly high degree of exclusion of a > significant section of the population. In doing so, the court made a larger > point that must focus policymaking on other aspects of the social, > educational, training and healthcare landscape to give the disabled their > right to full participation. Pointing to technological advancement that > allows people to vault over their disabilities, it said, "the actual > limitation surfaces only when they are not provided with equal > opportunities". It is important that this country take full stock of the > limitations currently being imposed on millions of people from gaining their > right to equal opportunity. > At the very obvious, and basic, level, consider the impediments to mobility, > from transportation to building access, let alone the lack of supplemental > signage for the visually or hearing impaired. In fact, even the landmark > legislation on the right to education did not originally factor in issues of > access for the disabled, and it took considerable mobilisation to force an > amendment. The fact of guaranteed jobs does not just change the statistics > radically. It also forces the reconfiguration of workplaces - in terms of > job profiles, physical infrastructure and HR support - to make an inclusive > environment the new normal. Every consequent investment in ancillary > services - transportation, training, disability-specific aids - and every > change in social attitudes can be a force multiplier. In a society like > ours, still struggling to obliterate the gaps in opportunity on account of > widespread economic deprivation, this effort to factor in the rights of the > disabled in every development and welfare effort is particularly > challenging, and crucial. > However, policymaking is still hampered by the struggle to even identify the > disabled. The 2001 census listed just 2.13 per cent of the population as > disabled. Experience worldwide has shown how the question is posed is > crucial. Asking someone bluntly if she or her ward is disabled is less > likely to yield a positive reply than if she is asked if they have > difficulty in carrying out a daily task, be it reading, walking, > communicating. It's time target beneficiaries are enabled to identify > themselves as rightful claimsants for support, and sensitively so. > > > With thanks and regards > > > > (Rajesh Asudani) > Assistant General Manager > Reserve Bank of India > Nagpur > > (In youth you want things, and then in middle-age you want to want them.) > > > ________________________________ > Caution: The Reserve Bank of India never sends mails, smses or makes calls > asking for personal information like your bank account details, passwords, > etc. It never keeps or offers funds to anyone. 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