Do inform others also. Forwarded Message Begins Hblock quote start Dear colleagues,
Around 1000 persons with different disabilities assembled on Monday Feb 10 2014 at 9 safdarjang outside malikarjun's house who is minister to MSJE. It was our strong commitment that he be not allowed to go to the parliament. The number kept rising and around 1 when he could not go to the parliament he invited us for a meeting. A delegation under the leadership of NFB general secretary met the minister and the secretary to department of disability affairs. Which also included NPRD, rashtriya viklang munch, human rights law network and others. The delegation raised many questions on the amended version of the draft and pointed out various flaws. The delegation had a discussion over various categories of disabilities and their problems. The minister promised us three things: Firstly, a joint meeting of NFB, law minister and secretary of department of disability affairs will be held to consider the suggestions submitted by the delegation. Secondly, if the problem still persists, the bill will be reffered to the standing committee. Thirdly, in the mean time if the bill is listed in the business, the minister himself will straight away inform the chairman of Rajya Sabha that the consultations are not complete, therefore, he is not pressing the bill for discussion and passage till the consultations are completed. However, shockingly, it was also told to us that when Javed Abidi came for the meeting on third with the secretary of department of disability affairs, he showed my forged signature saying that Mr. Rungta is busy somewhere else and I'm representing the whole disability sector. So you can understand the nepharious plans of self styled people like Javed Abidi. Abidi was saying that he will teach a lesson to the blind, therefore, we all must ask Mr. Javed Abidi now as to where is the bill today? I would like to thank each and everyone who supported us for this cause. Without your support, it wouldn't have been possible to stall the passage of this flawed bill and discrimination against disabled would have been legitimised on grounds of disability. I'm also thankful to the students of JNU whose hard work and intelligent inputs helped us a lot in building up this momentum, Specially Ajay and Avinash. I found Ajay to be a very capable fellow and an able strategist. Avinash kept us posted about the happenings on media and his skills on social networking websites helped us greatly. Lastly, I hope that we will continue to extend our cooperation to one another, and work together in a meaningful manner to dispel any such plans of government. Once again I thank you all for coming together and raising voice against this black law. With regards, S.K. Rungta General Secretary, NFB India block quote end -- Avinash Shahi M.Phil Research Scholar Centre for The Study of Law and Governance Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India Time to meet up again! Register for AccessIndia Convention 2014: http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
