----- Original Message ----- From: Amba Salelkar Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 2:04 AM Subject: Please send in comments: The Nirbhaya Fund
Hello everyone: Yahoo News has done an expose of the inactivity in the Nirbhaya Fund proposal set up by the Government: http://in.news.yahoo.com/what-they-are-planning-to-do-with-the-rs-1-000-crore-nirbhaya-fund-050843333.html In response to this, an appeal from the Ministry of Finance: Suggestions and proposals for the Nirbhaya fund from all concerned citizens, NGOs and civil rights groups are welcome and can be emailed to the Joint Secretary, Budget, Ministry of Finance, Rajat Bhargava ([email protected]). Many of the suggestions we made as part of the Report on the Justice Verma Recommendations were based on accessibility concerns. I feel that any specific requirements which would require expenses should be flagged to be looked into here. This could include ISL and AAC interpreters in Police Stations and Hospitals, Braille and other forms of accessible copies of guidelines for victims, to name a few. Please send in your recommendations. There is no time limit specified but I think if you can give in your suggestions by Saturday evening that would be very useful. I realize that the elections are about to happen but it makes sense to put our recommendations on record and then take it up again with the new Government that forms. Best, and looking forward to hearing from you all with suggestions! Amba. 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..
