Great going Rungta sir and NFB,congratulations for meeting the CM on the day when his brother and deputy CM is facing wrath from all sides for that incedent in Moga.now this struggle has to be taken in UP,Bihar, Jharkhand,West Bengal and in other states. And being the primiar organization for the blind,NFB must have its own resources and archive of all news clippings,vidio speechs,and blog post where NFB could negitoate with the government and people on all fronts. I mean by academically,ans well on roads.
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today asked the Secretary Social Security to clear the backlog by filling all the vacancies in the departments reserved for the blind persons expeditiously. Chairing a meeting of the delegation of State Unit of National Federation of the Blind led by its National General Secretary S K Rongta here, Badal directed the Secretary Social Security to collect the information related to the vacancies for the blind persons in all the departments within one-and-a-half month. He also initiated the recruitment drive to clear the backlog of these vacant posts meant for blind persons at the earliest. The Chief Minister also asked the State Transport department to allow free travel facility to an attendant accompanying the blind person carrying an identity card issued by the Social Security department in the Punjab Roadways/PRTC buses. It may be recalled that as on today 882 such blind persons were availing free travel facility. Likewise, Badal also asked the Finance department to examine the case of hiking the existing handicapped allowance from Rs 600 to Rs 1000 per month to its government employees on the pattern of Haryana government. He asked the Principal Secretary Education to fill all the vacant posts for blind persons under the categories of Art and Craft teachers and Classical and Vocational teachers forthwith without any further delay. Conceding another demand to ensure timely promotion of the blind government employees in the light of the direction of Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Chief Minister asked the Personnel department to ensure strict implementation of the guidelines for the promotion of such persons in the right earnest. Meanwhile, the Chief Minister also gave nod to convert the posts reserved for blind persons on which they were unable to perform their duties to facilitate them to give such work which they could perform with much ease and comfort. According to another demand to grant facilities to the blind sports persons who have brought laurels in Para-Olympics and other international sports events at par with those who have won medals in the Olympics, Common Wealth and Asian Games, the Chief Minister asked the sports department to send a detailed and comparative proposal to his office within a week so that this disparity could be removed for once and all -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU 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..
