Hey Ishita, Just because you think a particular job profile might be inaccessible or rather hard for a blind person does not imply that it will indeed be the case. Last month, I happened to attend a STEM access conference in Washington. Can you think of a blind civil engineer? Or, how about a blind chemist? Or even better, how about a blind surgeon? Sounds impossible, right. But, I met some people who are actually involved in these vocations, and are well-known in their field. They use some rather clever adaptations. The point that I'm trying to drive home is that with the evolution of technology, a lot is possible. You just need to explore alternate ways of doing things. It might be a little challenging first, but then, everything smoothens out. While I agree with Rajesh Sir that there's no point being overly optimistic, accepting something as impossible and being very pessimistic is also bad.
I'm not being philosophical or optimistic here, but am rather quoting from experience and example. Also, quoting a line from your E-mail: "we all know what we can do and what we can't" Well, I don't really think so. There's much more than we think we can do. Sky is the limit, after all! We just need to come up with alternate ways and approaches. Best, -- -Kartik Sawhney, Cell: +1-(650) 492-3220 (US), +91-9958499435 (India) E-mail ID: sawhney.kar...@gmail.com, karti...@stanford.edu Skype: kartik.sawhney22 On 7/4/14, ishita kapoor <ishitakapoor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear preety madam, > We are enough motivated I guess. > We all have accepted blindness. > We all know what we can do and what we can't. > We all know what is situation and why. > But the situation will be improved by practical wisdom more then > optimistic talks > I read a discussion on facebook regarding difficulty of getting work > in banks for visually impaired. > Somebody suggested to print pass book, opening account etc. > But this is not ideal job for us. > There we have to deal with 100s of customers everyday. And we can't > rely on somebody will come and will read out form for us. > We need to find out suitable job profile in stead of we can do > everything mindset. > I am great admirer of your talent, skill, and way of writing. > And I am learning from the person like you. > But only positive thinking such as: we can do everything. We are good > at everything won't work in real world. > > > On 7/4/14, nupur.j...@wipro.com <nupur.j...@wipro.com> wrote: >> Above all we need to have a positive attitude towards ourselves and our >> disability. >> If we are blind, so what? >> Unless, we have a right attitude, we can not really achieve much in life. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >> Behalf >> Of Preeti Monga >> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 2:00 PM >> To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >> concerning >> the disabled.' >> Subject: Re: [AI] Reply to Ishita's mail regarding jobs for blind >> individuals - Re: my quriyocity are >> normelpeopleintrestedinmarryingblindpartners >> >> Dear Ishita, >> >> Relax a little... we all know that the situation for visually impaired is >> real bad! We all are ourselves facing so many difficulties all the time. >> Remember you still have some vision, so why may I ask are you so very >> upset? >> I know it is difficult, at times very difficult, to accept what we are >> getting. But, there are only 2 things we can do... 1 is to let things be >> as >> they are and probably let them become worse. 2 do something about the >> situation, to improve it. Do something, anything, it will only begin to >> get >> better very very slowly! >> >> If we remain depressed and angry and disheartened, where will we find >> the >> courage or the motivation to do something to improve our situation? >> That is why we need to motivate and encourage each other and together we >> can do something to make things better >> Preeti >> >> Preeti Monga >> Director >> >> >> >> Mobile: +91 9871701646 >> Landline: 011 22781446 >> E-mail: preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in >> Website: www.silver-linings.co.in ; www.silver-linings.org >> Our Services: Executive Search - Specializing in Head Hunting. Training >> -Motivation; Stress Management; Soft Skill; Behavioral. Gifting - >> Corporate >> ; Promotional; Events. End to end CSR Advisory; including demystifying >> workshops and counseling. Printing Solutions, Incentive Travel and >> Marketing Data Mining / Refining.. >> >> We assure high quality service marked with excellence and complete >> customer centricity, forming Synergies as we go along. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >> Behalf >> Of ishita kapoor >> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 1:29 PM >> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning >> the disabled. >> Subject: Re: [AI] Reply to Ishita's mail regarding jobs for blind >> individuals - Re: my quriyocity are >> normelpeopleintrestedinmarryingblindpartners >> >> I hate awe-inspiring talks which is not constructive in nature. >> We visually impaired are getting jobs in government sectors mainly >> thanks to reservation. >> Though we are enough capable. >> There may be few individuals who have got jobs in private sectors. >> But such people can be counted by the tip of finger. >> Only capability is not enough to perform all tasks. >> Our offices and work profiles are 99 percent inaccessible for the blind. >> If a person from private sector wants to employ a blind person he will >> have to make his system up to the expectation for the blind >> And which is not always easy or possible. >> Only awareness can improve our circumstances >> >> >> On 7/4/14, Preeti Monga <preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in> wrote: >>> I know Avinash, it is very very sad. I do wish I could do something for >>> them. Let us at least begin somewhere. And imagine the state of the >>> female >>> blind citizen in those circumstances? Lately I have had the opportunity >>> of >>> going from village to village in and around Delhi and UP and Haryana, I >>> can't even begin to write about their state! It has torne me apart! The >>> female is as it is in a horrendous state, imagine the ones who are blind? >>> >>> Therefore, I have decided to at least make a tiny beginning from wherever >>> I >>> can with the limited or should I say no resources! >>> Let us all keep trying whatever we can do, and I am sure something >>> somewhere >>> will turn up and conditions will begin to improve! >>> Preeti >>> >>> Preeti Monga >>> Director >>> >>> >>> >>> Mobile: +91 9871701646 >>> Landline: 011 22781446 >>> E-mail: preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in >>> Website: www.silver-linings.co.in ; www.silver-linings.org >>> Our Services: Executive Search - Specializing in Head Hunting. Training >>> -Motivation; Stress Management; Soft Skill; Behavioral. Gifting - >>> Corporate >>> ; Promotional; Events. End to end CSR Advisory; including demystifying >>> workshops and counseling. Printing Solutions, Incentive Travel and >>> Marketing Data Mining / Refining.. >>> >>> We assure high quality service marked with excellence and complete >>> customer centricity, forming Synergies as we go along. >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >>> Behalf >>> Of avinash shahi >>> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 9:03 PM >>> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >>> concerning >>> the disabled. >>> Subject: Re: [AI] Reply to Ishita's mail regarding jobs for blind >>> individuals - Re: my quriyocity are >>> normelpeopleintrestedinmarryingblindpartners >>> >>> You are right sir. >>> But what about those persons with disabilities who are between 18 to >>> 35 years of age,unemployed, unmarried, abandoned by families and >>> invisible to the state? whom Cambridge based educationist Nidhi Singal >>> has rightly termed: "forgotten youth with disabilities". >>> On 7/3/14, George Abraham <geo...@eyeway.org> wrote: >>>> Jobs come later. The primary need of the hour is good quality education >>> and >>>> high quality rehab services in every district if not every town..! >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >>> Behalf >>>> Of avinash shahi >>>> Sent: 03 July 2014 14:45 >>>> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >>>> concerning >>>> the disabled. >>>> Subject: Re: [AI] Reply to Ishita's mail regarding jobs for blind >>>> individuals - Re: my quriyocity are >>>> normelpeopleintrestedinmarryingblindpartners >>>> >>>> I think it is high time issue of jobs for blind should be discussed >>>> and dwelled upon in detail. >>>> So thanks to Ishita for presenting this opportunity for serious >>>> consideration for me at least. >>>> >>>> As far as my reading of literature goes on the topic, it pains me to >>>> the core. According to one RTI response obtained from DOPT: ' Out >>>> of over 24 lakh employees belonging to Group A, B and C, the total >>>> number of persons employed from disabled category was merely 5,014 on >>>> January 1, 2012' (Yadav, Indian Express, 2013: 3 December) >>>> >>> (http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/disabled-have-3--quota-in-govt-jobs- >>>> but-add-up-to-only-0.12-/1202425/). >>>> Further, Census 2001, NSSO 58 round 2002 and World Bank report on >>>> India 2007 categorically inform us that among disabled people employed >>>> with publick sector undertakings, the biggest share has gone to >>>> persons with locomotor disabilities. To make matter worse, from >>>> unofficial estimate, only 15% jobs in government sectors are >>>> identified for persons with disabilities, So you can simply surmise >>>> where are blind people stand today. >>>> >>>> Owing to paucity of time I should quickly critically comment on >>>> private sector and persons with disabilities. Since the neo-liberal >>>> dispensation has stretched its wings in Indian markets, jobs have >>>> accrued to a particular class. And the other class which comprises of >>>> a disabled living in the countryside, who struggles to boast English >>>> accent, finds it hard to buy computer/mobile what to speak of JAWS and >>>> Elliquence, has been hit hard. Like any other population group, , We >>>> blind people also belong to different hierarchical backgrounds. And >>>> Scheduled caste, scheduled tribes OBCs, and women representing >>>> herinabove mentioned categories among blind people are hardly found in >>>> private sector jobs. And majority of those who find jobs in NGOs >>>> working for/of blind, call-centres and manufacturing units, are >>>> least-paid and over-worked. So where we stand in private sector in >>>> general, I think nowhere. But one thing consoles me in India we are >>>> much better than America, UK and Australia. There unemployment rate of >>>> disabled is very high, and provision of monthly few hundred >>>> dollars/Great Britain Pound (GBP) without giving job is still a norm. >>>> But here in India, we're expected to work if we want to be paid. >>>> That's superb because what we aspire as human beings of course >>>> DIGNITY. Lastly, no quality study exists which has analysed the blind >>>> people's experiences at the workplace. Hope many of access Indians >>>> along with me would enter in to disability studies in future and >>>> contribute greatly to the literature which would guide the Indian >>>> State... >>>> >>>> On 7/3/14, Preeti Monga <preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in> wrote: >>>>> Silver Linings has placed great blind candidates with companies like >>>>> Microsoft and LPTI and other companies with salaries going into lacs! >>>>> So dont get disheartened dear we do have disadvantages because we are >>>>> blind, >>>>> but that should only get us to explore our hidden potentials and >>>>> achieve >>>>> great hights! >>>>> Preeti >>>>> >>>>> Preeti Monga >>>>> Director >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Mobile: +91 9871701646 >>>>> Landline: 011 22781446 >>>>> E-mail: preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in >>>>> Website: www.silver-linings.co.in ; www.silver-linings.org >>>>> Our Services: Executive Search - Specializing in Head Hunting. Training >>>>> -Motivation; Stress Management; Soft Skill; Behavioral. Gifting - >>>> Corporate >>>>> ; Promotional; Events. End to end CSR Advisory; including demystifying >>>>> workshops and counseling. Printing Solutions, Incentive Travel and >>>>> Marketing Data Mining / Refining.. >>>>> >>>>> We assure high quality service marked with excellence and complete >>>>> customer centricity, forming Synergies as we go along. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >>>> Behalf >>>>> Of Sameer >>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 12:47 PM >>>>> To: Access India >>>>> Subject: [AI] Reply to Ishita's mail regarding jobs for blind >>>>> individuals >>>> - >>>>> Re: my quriyocity are normelpeopleintrestedinmarryingblindpartners >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Dear Ishita, >>>>> >>>>> I have been selected by Reliance Industries Ltd. inspite of being >>>>> completely >>>>> >>>>> blind & will be joining them within a fortnight. I am also aware of >>>>> other >>>>> partially & completely blind people working with the Reliance group in >>>>> Mumbai. >>>>> >>>>> Regarding the salary earned by blind individuals in the private sector, >>>> the >>>>> >>>>> salary earned depends upon the individual's designation, capability & >>>>> qualifications. There are several list members who are employed in the >>>>> private sector (myself included) who are earning a good salary. 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