Dear Friends, Greetings from National Federation of the Blind India. A Rally was organized (16-04-2015), by the federation which was attended by approximately 2000 visually impaired people across the nation. Rally compels to demand from the government to fulfill its commitments to fill backlog vacancies for the person with disabilities including visually impaired people. As has been admitted by the Department of Personnel and Training in its affidavit, submitted in the Supreme Court of India that about 12000 backlog vacancies which came to 4000 for each category. The hon’ble Supreme Court of India has asked government (Dopt) to file affidavit as to when government is going to fill up these vacancies, next date of hearing is 28-4-2015. The next demand was in regard to guidelines issued by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment with regard to use of scribe by the visually impaired candidates for undertaking various competitive exams. The UPSC has requested the Ministry to review these guiltiness. The Federation has requested government not to change the guidelines as requested by UPSC and retain with the existing guidelines. The last demand was to amend Office Memorandum dt. 29-12-2005 issued by DOPT regarding 3% reservation in promotion in group A and B pots as well, as has been directed by the Supreme Court of India. The rally which was attended by General Secretaries of state branches of the Federation apart from members expressed solidarity with the Federation and its General Secretary Sh. S.K Rungta by passing a resolution unanimously. The rally also condemned the efforts of some other organizations and individuals to destabilize the federation and defend its general secretary. Latter a memorandum consisting of above said demands was submitted to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Department of Personnel and Training and Ministry of Home Affairs including Prime Minister’s Office.
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