[AI] regarding toll tax exemption
Dear friends good evening to all of you, recently a circular was posted in this list, regarding toll tax exemption. I also got the same from AICB. Today MrJ. L. Kaul Recipient of Padma Shri Award 2014 Secretary General All India Confederation of the Blind has stated that (At the outset, I apologize for circulating the toll tax exemption circular which proved a fake one. We had received that copy and sent it to you all to share this good news. But in fact some person had inserted the category of physically handicapped in the main circular and sent to some persons.) This is for your kind information. I request all the members not to do so. k. srinivas 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] Fwd: [Disability Rights Through Courts]:SC dismisses yet another attempt of Centre to sabotage reservation for employees with disabilities in promotion
Sir: please don't waste the time prepare a petition to PM and send the same to all associations working in the field of disabilities and ask them to do so. k. srinivas - Original Message - From: SC Vashishth subhashvashis...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 10:34 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Fwd: [Disability Rights Through Courts]:SC dismisses yet another attempt of Centre to sabotage reservation for employees with disabilities in promotion Vivek, Well the DoPT will not have any more options after this dismissal. They have already tried before two separate benches with no positive results for them. They should come out with a memorandum revising their earlier Memo soon. And if they don't, we all need to get in to some serious action by inundating them with innumerable petitions to the PM, Concerned Ministers of DoPT and Social Justice seeking suitable action! On 4 March 2015 at 10:24, vivek doddamani vivekka...@gmail.com wrote: Sir, when will be the final out come or DOPT may accept this order issue circuler On 3/3/15, SC Vashishth subhashvashis...@gmail.com wrote: SC dismisses yet another attempt of Centre to sabotage reservation for employees with disabilities in promotion Dear Colleagues, Please refer to my earlier posts Physically Challenged Versus Logically Challenged http://disabilityrightsthroughcourts.blogspot.in/2013/12/physically-challenged-versus-logically.html dated 10 Dec 2013 and SC clarifies 3% reservation in appointment for disabled extends to promotions and deputations as well http://disabilityrightsthroughcourts.blogspot.in/2014/10/sc-clarifies-3-reservation-in.html dated 10 October 2014 . Despite a three judge bench of the then Chief Justice, Justice Kurian Joseph Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman of the Hon'ble Supreme Court rejecting the Centre's argument against the reservation in promotion for persons with disabilities on 12th Sep 2014 in Special Leave to Appeal (C) CC No(s). 13344/2014 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9pA0kt0x8XwQ2hPblNlZE1pbDQ/view in terms of The Persons with Disabilities Act 1995, the Union of India (read DoPT) has been dilly-dallying on the implementation of the Bombay High Court judgement in PIL 106/2010 dated 04 Dec 2013 titled https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9pA0kt0x8XwVnluVXFKZ0JpbmpHWGx1RmRnOVJVNC1WNElV/edit National Confederation for Development of Disabled Versus Union of India and Ors https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9pA0kt0x8XwVnluVXFKZ0JpbmpHWGx1RmRnOVJVNC1WNElV/edit , by preferring some or the other objections since September 2014. However, finally on 27 Feb 2015, a bench of Hon'ble Chief Justice HL Dattu and Mr. Justice AK Sikri of Hon'ble Supreme Court, have once again dismissed a Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No 5914/2015 (Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 05/12/2014 in NOML No. 690/2014 in RPL No. 85/2014 in PIL No. 106/2010 passed by the High Court Of Bombay). How do you expect disabled persons to compete with the abled persons, the bench asked while dismissing the appeal filed by the Centre against the Bombay High Court order directing it and the Union Public Service Commission to implement a three per cent quota in direct recruitments and promotions for the disabled in the IAS. Like last time, The Hon'ble Bench did not give specific reasons. For a copy of Supreme Court Order dated 27 Feb 2015 *click here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9pA0kt0x8Xwei1mN1lTMF8wMzg/view?usp=sharing .* However, a large section of media was present in the Supreme Court and has reported the proceedings succinctly. A report in Times of India covers the entire proceedings as below: Source: Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Disabled-should-get-reservation-in-promotion/articleshow/46403087.cms *'Disabled should get reservation in promotion'* Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN | Feb 28, 2015, 03.33AM IST NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said the government could not deny quota in promotion to those who were appointed to a post under the reservation policy for the physically handicapped. A bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu and A K Sikri rejected the Union government's plea to set aside a high court decision ordering that those appointed in government service through physically handicapped quota would also be entitled to reservation while getting promoted. Arguing for the Centre, attorney general Mukul Rohatgi said there were four categories of civil services and if a person had availed the reservation benefit in getting a job, it would be unfair to extend the reservation benefit yet again to him while considering him for promotion to the higher category of service. The bench was not convinced. It said, Why confine the reservation benefit only to the entry level
Re: [AI] Fwd: [Disability Rights Through Courts]:SC dismisses yet another attempt of Centre to sabotage reservation for employees with disabilities in promotion
Sir: I think it is only in the hands of petitioners they should produce these judgments before the bench and need to raise our voice. k. srinivas - Original Message - From: Asudani, Rajesh rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Fwd: [Disability Rights Through Courts]:SC dismisses yet another attempt of Centre to sabotage reservation for employees with disabilities in promotion RBI has gone to Supreme court against Bombay HC order about reservation in promotion. So, it will come up. Let us see if it is also summarily dismissed like previous two. I suppose it depends on the bench. As ambedkar said any constitution is only as good or as bad as the people implementing it. So, let us keep our fingers crossed. With thanks and regards (Rajesh Asudani) AGM MIU Reserve Bank Of India Nagpur Phone: 0712 2806358 A-pilll = Action coupled with Positivity, Interest, Love, Logic and Laughter -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of SC Vashishth Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 10:34 AM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] Fwd: [Disability Rights Through Courts]:SC dismisses yet another attempt of Centre to sabotage reservation for employees with disabilities in promotion Vivek, Well the DoPT will not have any more options after this dismissal. They have already tried before two separate benches with no positive results for them. They should come out with a memorandum revising their earlier Memo soon. And if they don't, we all need to get in to some serious action by inundating them with innumerable petitions to the PM, Concerned Ministers of DoPT and Social Justice seeking suitable action! On 4 March 2015 at 10:24, vivek doddamani vivekka...@gmail.com wrote: Sir, when will be the final out come or DOPT may accept this order issue circuler On 3/3/15, SC Vashishth subhashvashis...@gmail.com wrote: SC dismisses yet another attempt of Centre to sabotage reservation for employees with disabilities in promotion Dear Colleagues, Please refer to my earlier posts Physically Challenged Versus Logically Challenged http://disabilityrightsthroughcourts.blogspot.in/2013/12/physically-challenged-versus-logically.html dated 10 Dec 2013 and SC clarifies 3% reservation in appointment for disabled extends to promotions and deputations as well http://disabilityrightsthroughcourts.blogspot.in/2014/10/sc-clarifies-3-reservation-in.html dated 10 October 2014 . Despite a three judge bench of the then Chief Justice, Justice Kurian Joseph Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman of the Hon'ble Supreme Court rejecting the Centre's argument against the reservation in promotion for persons with disabilities on 12th Sep 2014 in Special Leave to Appeal (C) CC No(s). 13344/2014 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9pA0kt0x8XwQ2hPblNlZE1pbDQ/view in terms of The Persons with Disabilities Act 1995, the Union of India (read DoPT) has been dilly-dallying on the implementation of the Bombay High Court judgement in PIL 106/2010 dated 04 Dec 2013 titled https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9pA0kt0x8XwVnluVXFKZ0JpbmpHWGx1RmRnOVJVNC1WNElV/edit National Confederation for Development of Disabled Versus Union of India and Ors https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9pA0kt0x8XwVnluVXFKZ0JpbmpHWGx1RmRnOVJVNC1WNElV/edit , by preferring some or the other objections since September 2014. However, finally on 27 Feb 2015, a bench of Hon'ble Chief Justice HL Dattu and Mr. Justice AK Sikri of Hon'ble Supreme Court, have once again dismissed a Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No 5914/2015 (Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 05/12/2014 in NOML No. 690/2014 in RPL No. 85/2014 in PIL No. 106/2010 passed by the High Court Of Bombay). How do you expect disabled persons to compete with the abled persons, the bench asked while dismissing the appeal filed by the Centre against the Bombay High Court order directing it and the Union Public Service Commission to implement a three per cent quota in direct recruitments and promotions for the disabled in the IAS. Like last time, The Hon'ble Bench did not give specific reasons. For a copy of Supreme Court Order dated 27 Feb 2015 *click here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9pA0kt0x8Xwei1mN1lTMF8wMzg/view?usp=sharing .* However, a large section of media was present in the Supreme Court and has reported the proceedings succinctly. A report in Times of India covers the entire proceedings as below: Source: Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Disabled-should-get-reservation-in-promotion/articleshow/46403087.cms *'Disabled should get reservation in promotion'* Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN | Feb 28,
[AI] letter
Dear friends please see this message Which I received from AICB. Dear Colleagues, I am mailing across the current requirement of PwD candidates at various locations in the country . This requirement is for a Global Telecom company called Uninor. One of our contacts, Empower Pragati is coordinating with this corporate. We hope it would be helpful for you in employing your candidates. Email ID of Mr. Ashutosh has been mentioned for your reference. You can discuss directly with him for any further clarification. Email ID: Ashutosh Singh: ashutosh.si...@empowerpragati.in Please find the locations where they are looking for the candidates: UP East, UP West, Bihar Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat. Below is the job details for your reference. . Job role: Customer Activation Officers - Any Graduates with Computer literacy ( Partially Disabled ) . Salary paid for the selected candidates: 10,000/- per month fixed . Candidates expected to join - This is ongoing requirement for all 6 circles. Candidates are supposed to join us withing 15 days of issuing the letter. . Type of disability are they looking for - Physically disabled candidates ( Partial ) , Partially blind or deaf ( One Eye, One Ear deafness ) . Job Description mentioned below Key Result Areas/Accountabilities Supporting Actions Ensure receipt of Original Forms from Distributor office Forms will be collected by runner boys as per the agreed time schedule Ensure that forms meet regulatory guidelines a. Forms to be checked verified as per DOT process/guidelines Ensuring Management of non-compliant forms a. Non-activated forms are returned to distributor b. Forms to be handed over to runner boys c. Scanning updating the reason for non-compliance Ensure that system captures correct information Vis-à-vis CAF form a. Data will be entered by Docs agency b. Updating the changes in the System Ensure that all Compliant forms are processed. Sign all compliant forms after proper verification of data and handover the forms for further process a. Proper Verification of data b. Handing over the forms for further processing c. Agency will be scanning the docs and forward it to its central office for inwarding /warehousing with kind regards, J.L. Kaul Secretary General AICB -- k. srinivas School assistant (social studies) MPUPS Shittygudem mandal Athmakur (S) district Nalgonda and General Secretary Visually-challenged Employees association, Telangana Mobile 07386934647 (U) 09490589531 (BSNL) Email: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
[AI] Here is a circular issued by Department of Expenditure
Dear Colleagues, Here is a circular issued by Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance in connection with travel allowance to a disabled person for his escort/guide during training/tour. It may help some of your colleagues. Please share its detail with needy disabled persons. No. 19030/3/2013-E.IV Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Expenditure North Block, New Delhi. Dated the 17th February, 2015. OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject:- Travelling Allowance in respect of Attendant/Escort for accompanying a Government Servant with Disabilities on travel during tour/training etc. 0- References have been received in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure seeking provision in the Rules/instructions regulating Travelling Allowance, in order to allow grant of Travelling Allowance to the Government servant with Disabilities in respect of an Attendant/Escort accompanying such a Government servant with Disabilities during travel while on tour/training, etc. At present there are no provisions in the Travelling Allowance rules which allows Government servants to claim Travelling Allowance in respect of Attendant/Escort accompanying them on tour/ training, etc. where such Government servants require the assistance of an Attendant/Escort for travel. 2. The matter has been considered and it has now been decided to allow Travelling Allowance in respect of the Attendant/Escort, for accompanying a Government servant with Disabilities during travel while on tour/training, etc., to be claimed by the Government servant with Disabilities. The admissibility of Travelling Allowance, in respect of the Attendant/Escort accompanying a Government servant with Disabilities, would be subject to the following conditions:- (a) Ordinarily, the field offices/local administrative offices at the touring station, which the Government servant with Disabilities is required to visit on tour or training institutes where the Government servant with Disabilities is required to undergo training, would be required to provide an Attendant/Escort, from the existing pool of staff/persons employed, from the time the Government servant with Disabilities arrives at the destination and till such time the Government servant with Disabilities departs from that destination back to his headquarter station/place from where the Government servant with Disabilities had initially proceeded to that destination. During travel abroad, either on foreign tour/training, the Indian Missions/Posts (Embassy of India) at the country of visit would be required to provide an Attendant/Escort, from the existing pool of staff/persons .employed, during the period of stay of the Government servant with Disabilities in that country. (b) Only when field offices/local administrative offices at the touring station or training institutes or Indian Missions/Posts at the country of visit, as the case may be, officially express their inability to provide an Attendant/Escort to the visiting Government servant with Disabilities, would the claim of Travelling Allowance in respect of Attendant/Escort accompanying the Government servant with Disabilities arise. In such cases, fare for travel of Attendant/Escort accompanying Government servant with Disabilities would be reimbursed. While for travel by air, Airlines-are expected to provide assistance to Government servant with Disabilities during travel as per Airlines policies, a Government servant with Disabilities however, can take along his personal Attendant/Escort for travel by Indian Railways for assistance during journey and boarding/de-boarding, even when an Attendant/Escort at destination station is provided officially. (c) In all cases, Government servant with Disabilities are required to purchase travel tickets for self and Attendant/Escort at concessional rates, if any, offered by Railways/Airlines. (d) The facility of Travelling Allowance for the Attendant/Escort would only be admissible to those Government servants with Disabilities, wherein it is certified by the competent Medical Authority that such a person compulsorily requires assistance of another person for travel. Under this clause, necessary certificate is to be obtained from the Head of Department of a Government Civil Hospital designated for the type/form of disability of the Government servant. Based on the certificate from competent Medical Authority, Heads of Departments would have to further satisfy the need for an Attendant/Escort during travel of the Government servant, before allowing the journey for the Attendant/Escort. (e) Subject to clause (d) above, Travelling Allowance for the Attendant/Escort would be admissible to the Government servant with Disabilities while on tour (domestic or foreign). However, the authority deputing such a Government servant with Disabilities on tour would have to record in writing that the tour is considered necessary in the
[AI] Braille - the Key to Accessing Language and Literacy for the Blind of the World
I am pasting message on Braille for mother language day received from WBU. I hope you will enjoy its reading. k. srinivas Braille - the Key to Accessing Language and Literacy for the Blind of the World As we commemorate Mother Language Day on February 21st , it is important to reflect on the importance of braille to ensuring that blind persons have the opportunity to acquire and use their mother language - whatever that language may be. Braille has been called a super script, The queen of all scripts. For, it is the only script in the world in which any language of the world can be read or written. No other script has this unique capacity. So indeed it is only Braille that has the ability to enable blind persons to truly master their mother language. It would be no exaggeration to state that Braille occupies the same status in reading and writing for the blind as print for the sighted. Just as recorded books or e-books cannot replace hard copy books for the sighted, similarly, books in Braille are integral components of meaningful education and rehabilitation for blind persons. That is why, Braille has stood the test of time and competition from various quarters for about 160 years, since its acceptance by the French in 1854, two years after the death of its inventor, Louis Braille, for whom the script is named. Continuous Braille reading holds the key to learning spelling and active literacy skills. Braille is essential for subjects requiring intensive study like mathematics, science, geography, grammar, semantics, phonetics, etc. Indeed, Braille will remain the doyen of systems for giving to the visually impaired access to knowledge which is the main source of empowerment. While the importance of Braille for developing countries is widely recognized, it is often contended that Braille is fast declining in more advanced countries due to the advent of technology. On the contrary, technology has enabled much increased production of braille, which can now be produced in quantities of thousands of pages a day using high speed braille printers housed in braille production centers in countries around the world. Moreover, advocacy efforts are underway to have more braille available - on signage, household appliances, consumer items and even pharmaceutical products. And innovative technologies continue to be mobilized to produce a wide range of Braille reading and writing devices, bearing further testimony to the enduring importance of the system. The new upward Braille writing Frame recently brought out by RNIB in the UK, the ingenious devices recognized at World Braille 21 Congress in 2011, various heavy duty high speed Braille embossers, electronic Braille notetakers and the Smart Brailler, which is a new Braille learning and teaching device developed by Perkins Products, are just a few cases in point. Efforts are also currently underway to develop a low cost Refreshable Braille Display which will solve the issue of large and heavy Braille books and will make such technology available to developing countries. Several UN instruments so critical to the disability sector, also recognize the continuing utility of Braille, and it receives particular mention in several Articles of the UNCRPD (UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities). And the June 2013 adoption by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities will break down barriers for the production and sharing of accessible format materials, including Braille. It is the fervent belief and opinion of the World Blind Union that other accessible formats, including those accessed via technology, and Braille do not compete, but rather supplement one another. Indeed, they are essential for helping the visually impaired reader to keep abreast of the modern-day explosion of knowledge and information and to enhance their literacy and learning. The impact of Braille is no better described than by quoting from An Open Letter to Louis Braille composed by a former Secretary-General, World Blind Union, Pedro Zurita who wrote: And you know what, Louis? ... I exhibit your invention everywhere. I read material the way you invented it standing, lying down, sitting, in any position, ... Because your code, Louis, has afforded many, many blind people--myself among them, naturally--dignity, freedom, and many hours of incomparable spiritual enjoyment. As we celebrate International Mother Language Day, let us not forget the importance of Braille to ensuring access to their mother language by blind and partially sighted persons around the world. The World Blind Union (WBU) is the global organization representing the estimated 285 million people worldwide who are blind or partially sighted. Members consist of
[AI] Fw: RBI and currency notes accessibility
Sir: Please find I am pasting below a letter witch was sent to RBI by AICB in this regard. In this connection I request Hon. Coordinator: Sr. Adv. Shri. S. K. Rungta All India Disability Alliance to put this point in the proposed draft on RPD bill. To Shri. B.P. Vijayendra, Chief General Manager, Department of Currency Management, Reserve Bank of India, 4th floor, Amar Building, Sir P.M. Road, fort, Mumbai - 400 001. Sub:Hardships Faced By Visually Impaired And Certain Other Categories In Accessing Coins-Remedial Action Solicited. Sir, We write to invite your kind attention to the confusion, uncertainty and the resultant limitations in full participation in community life for the visually impaired and various other disability categories, because of complete lack of uniformity in the issuance of currency coins. 2. The dilemma we face is that user-requirements regarding uniformity of shape/size/ weight, which are so crucial to us for independent access and use of these coins, are totally and repeatedly overlooked by the concerned authorities. As a consequence, new coins of the same or different denominations keep appearing which are quite similar to each other and, hence, difficult to recognize tactually or even with restricted vision. 3. We give below a few illustrations of how confusing the situation tends to become in differentiating one coin from the other for us : 3.1. There are two or three coins of the same denomination with differing shapes; e.g. one, two, five Rupee coins. By the time persons with visual impairment and also others get used to recognizing one type of coin, another coin of the same denomination is brought out in different size. 3.2. Similarly, certain coins of different denominations are quite similar in shape/size, making it extremely difficult to tell with reasonable speed and certainty its actual denomination. Coins of ten-Rupee and One-Rupee are cases in point. 3.3. This lack of uniformity and a clear-cut policy gives rise to avoidable dependence inhibiting equality of opportunities and full participation for the disabled-the very hallmarks of the PWD Act. 4. May we further submit that these accessibility problems regarding coins are not confined to just the visually impaired? These adversely impact independent functioning of a large segment of our population - the print disabled, senior citizens etc. 5. As you would appreciate, this haphazard issuance of coins leading to hardships for the disabled population is a gross violation of their human rights in terms of Article 9 1 of the UNCRPD which calls upon States Parties to take appropriate measures to ensure persons with disabilities access, inter-alia, to other facilities and services open or provided to the public... It also violates Article 19 (c) of the Convention which requires undertaking of measures to ensure that : community services and facilities for the general population are available on an equal basis to persons with disabilities and are responsive to their needs. Availability of easily accessible coins is an important part of public services and facilities referred to in the aforesaid Articles and, hence, there is an urgent need for appropriate intervention. In view of the foregoing submissions we approach you with the request to kindly take up this accessibility issue with the concerned authorities. What we need, in our opinion, is a clear recognition by the concerned authorities of the requirements of the disabled population with regard to easy recognition of coins by laying down a clear policy or set of principles. This may consist of observing the well-recognized best practices of The same shape for the same-denomination coins, Avoiding similar shapes for different denomination coins, Ease of tactual perception , Proper colour contrast etc. As submitted earlier, the suggested access practices would have far-reaching benefits for other categories of disabilities and the general population as well. A copy of the World Blind Union External Resource Paper on Accessible Notes and Coins is enclosed for ready reference. Thanking you, Yours truly, - Original Message - From: amritpal singh amritpa...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning thedisabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [AI] RBI and currency notes accessibility Our problem is not paper currency. Our problem is coins. Sorry to say but no organization is doing anything in this regards. - Original Message - From: Kotian, H P hpkot...@rbi.org.in To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [AI] RBI and currency notes
[AI] Fw: New CAR on Persons with Disabilities and Air Travel
- Original Message - From: Amba Salelkar To: Nilesh Singit Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 8:56 PM Subject: New CAR on Persons with Disabilities and Air Travel Apologies if you have already seen this, this was brought to my attention by Smiti Bhatia last night http://www.dgca.nic.in/cars/d3m-m1.pdf Prima facie I see many many inconsistencies with what was proposed, and despite various assurances, especially on the issue of the use and checking of prosthetic limbs, have not been fulfilled. I'll try putting out a detailed note as soon as possible. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
[AI] Fw: Please send in comments: The Nirbhaya Fund
- 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-05084.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 (rajat.bharg...@nic.in). 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] Alert!. The government seems to be back witth the insidious plans, special cabinet meeting tomorrow, ordinances likely to be considered.
friends it is true just now at 9pm i heard the same news in ETV telugu - Original Message - From: Mahesh S. Panicker maheshspanic...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in; disability-studies-india disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com; jnuvision jnuvis...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 3:53 AM Subject: [AI] Alert!. The government seems to be back witth the insidious plans, special cabinet meeting tomorrow, ordinances likely to be considered. Times of India reports that a special cabinet meeting is scheduled for tomorrow that would consider the ordinances including the RPD bill. Very concerned. http://m.timesofindia.com/india/-Cabinet-meet-on-Sunday-ordinances-likely-to-be-considered/articleshow/31212235.cms -- Mahesh S. Panicker Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College, Lajpat Nagar New Delhi 110024 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
[AI] Fw: The Problems with the Disabilities Ordinance.
- Original Message - From: Amba Salelkar To: nileshsin...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: Pavan Muntha ; flight-wethe...@googlegroups.com ; kragu ram ; ajoy.karn...@gmail.com ; Anita Ghai ; J P Gadkari ; Dipendra Manocha ; alyar...@gmail.com Ketan Kothari ; rajive.rat...@hrln.org ; Jo Chopra ; Basavaraju ; Sayaji Hande ; Dheepakh PS ; Reena Sen ; Anuroopa Giliyal ; prateeksha sharma ; Radhika Alkazi ; meenu.bhambh...@mphasis.com ; Trinayani Ritika Sahni ; indumathi rao ; Sunil Abraham ; Manisha Gupte ; VIDYA SAGAR ; kanchanpamnani ; as_naraya...@hotmail.com ; mur...@cbmsaron.org ; gen...@nabkarnataka.org ; Asif Iqbal ; navs...@rediffmail.com ; Sai Padma ; Syamala G ; Saptarshi Mandal ; dipthibha...@gmail.com ; Jeeja Ghosh ; Val Resh ; Suranjana Ghosh Aikara ; Mitra Jyothi ; Shakeel Mohammed ; ian_card...@yahoo.com ; Punitha Suresh ; Dr. Sam Taraporevala ; juv...@tiss.edu ; Shivani Gupta ; National Platform For The Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) ; Prasanna Kumar ; pbma@gmail.com ; nfbindia_...@hotmail.com ; anindita btamta ; sudha kaul ; Nazir ; Deepak Thanumalaya m eenakshi nathan ; Anandhi Viswanathan ; Vibha Krishnamurthy ; Rajiv Rajan ; Anil Joshi ; mahant...@samarthanam.org ; Ruma Banerjee ; Shanti Auluck ; Amar Jain ; za...@senseintindia.org ; Sudha Ramamoorthy ; Ramakrishnan ; srinu vasulu ; Maneesh Gupta ; Charudatta Jadhav ; Bhargavi Davar ; slim...@tiss.edu ; alyar...@gmail.com Ketan Kothari ; sudha ; Meenakshi Balasubramaniam ; Kotian, H P ; Rishikesh K ; Babu Vijayakumar ; Nirmita Narasimhan ; Kakarla Nageswaraiah ; Action for Autism ; santoshkumar.run...@gmail.com ; Chidambaranathan ; j.raveend...@abilityfoundation.org ; Andhjan Kalyan Trust Dhoraji ; Aarth Astha ; s...@nish.ac.in, poonamnatarajan ; shekhar borker ; Mrinalini Ravi ; Dlu South ; Samarthyam India ; nab.kolk...@gmail.com ; akmit...@rediffmail.com ; viakalathur sunder ; socialworkt...@ummeed.org ; socialworkt...@ummeed.org ; rijulkochhar ; Srinivas Karnati ; sudhakara reddy ; Javed Abidi ; J L Kaul ; Dhana Sekar ; Rajul Padmanabhan ; deafenabled Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:39 PM Subject: The Problems with the Disabilities Ordinance. Am a little disturbed by this http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/government-to-push-key-bills-backed-by-rahul-gandhi-through-ordinances-488218 The ethics of pushing for Ordinances this close to the dissolution of Parliament apart, this is quite an exercise in futility. A starting point to this assertion would be to emphasize that there are two aspects to every law - the substantive law, and the procedural law. The existence of one is quite pointless without the other. With the anti-corruption Bills, as well as the inexplicable Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance of 2012, the procedural law was always governed by the Criminal Procedure Code. With respect to the RPD Bill, the questions are slightly complicated. Unlike the Anti Graft Bills, India has an already existing law which relates to Persons with Disabilities - The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunity Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. The only positive of the Bill really is the expansion of the definition of disability and the scheduling of 19 impairments, including the 7 impairments which were recognized under the 1995 Act. However, most of the benefits under the Bill which exist - including the increased percentage of reservations in employment and higher education - extend only to persons with the scheduled disabilities who are certified to have more than 40% of the disability - termed as persons with benchmark disabilities under the Act. Certification of disabilities, as we all know, is one of the most painful and dehumanizing procedures for persons with disabilities, but it is a necessary evil to obtain benefits. The Bill provides that the Central Government shall make Rules for manner of application for the issuance of the certificate of disability and form of certificate of disability. This becomes the procedural law. Without the Rules on the Certification, the 12 additional disabilities for whom this Bill was to be a game changer get very little besides a (highly unsatisfactory) policy document. The procedure for Rule Making under the Bill requires previous publication. For Rules which have the mandate of previous publication, Chapter 11.2 of the Manual of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs explains that the Department must first put out draft rules, place them before the Ministry of Law and Justice, and then publish them for comments. There is an elaborate process for these rules and the concerned Department will have up to 6 months from the date of closing of comments to finalize the Rules. In light of the inclusion of newer disabilities and the excessive problems laid down in the assessment methods which exist in respect of the ones already covered under law - including the four disabilities covered under the National Trust Act - this
Re: [AI] Fwd: Press Statement :DISABLE INJURED IN LATHI CHARGE
friends their is no any news in telugu channels - Original Message - From: P Subramani subramani6...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:07 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Fwd: Press Statement :DISABLE INJURED IN LATHI CHARGE also if anyone is following media, kindly post clipping oe this higlighted, if any. Also mail ids of media for further follup, atleast i have not about this police brutalities in any news On 2/27/14, Radha r.radh...@gmail.com wrote: Sir, please share the photo which contains the crutial act. I'm following with news channels in Tamilnadu which they demand. On 2/27/14, harish har...@accessindia.org.in wrote: Ajay Pl provide a dropbox link. This is hard to digest that a protest is met and treated this way. We need to double our efforts many fold with this backdrop. Harish Kotian Harish Kotian - Original Message - From: Ajay Arora ajayaror...@gmail.com To: sayeveryth...@sayeverything.org; disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com; jnuvis...@yahoogroups.com; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 9:57 PM Subject: [AI] Fwd: Press Statement :DISABLE INJURED IN LATHI CHARGE dear all, photos from zero ground are also atached .. -- Forwarded message -- From: Vikas Gupta vikas...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:06:39 +0530 Subject: Fwd: Press Statement :DISABLE INJURED IN LATHI CHARGE To: Ajay Arora ajayaror...@gmail.com -- Forwarded message -- From: Santosh Kumar Rungta santoshkumar.run...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:12:47 +0530 Subject: Press Statement :DISABLE INJURED IN LATHI CHARGE To: vikas...@gmail.com, Dipendra Manocha dipendra.mano...@gmail.com, J L Kaul aicbde...@yahoo.com, A.K. Mittal 2 akmit...@rediffmail.com, rajive raturi rajive.rat...@hrln.org, National Platform For The Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) nprd...@gmail.com, Amba Salelkar amba.salel...@gmail.com, ajayaror...@gmail.com, Anuradha Mohit anuradhamo...@gmail.com, Bhushan Punani blinab...@bsnl.in, mansim...@gmail.com Dear All, I am attaching herewith the Press Statement 27.02.14 of our demonstration held, where disabled were severely beaten by the Police in Lathi Charge, before President Bhawan as well as AICC Office at 24 Akhbar Road, Delhi. Rgds, Ksum Puri For S.K. Rungta, Cordinator Press Statement 27.02.2014 *DISABLE INJURED IN LATHI CHARGE* Today disabled people affiliated with All India Disabilities Alliance presented a memorandum to the Indian President requesting him not to sign the Ordinance on Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill as is being planned by the UPA Government. Thereafter, the Protestors moved to 24 Akhbar Road (Congress Headquarter) and wanted to meet the High Command. When after hours of wait, they could not meet any person in AICC, they decided to voluntarily and peacefully stage arrest. However, instead of arresting the Protestors, Police deployed severe Lathi Charge in which more than a dozen disabled persons have been severely injured. Following this event, fellow disabled have started coming to join hand in the struggle. Yours Sincerely, Vikas Gupta For S.K. Rungta, Cordinator -- Vikas Gupta Assistant Professor-University of Delhi; Joint Secretary-Sambhavana Organization; National Executive Member-All-India Forum for Right to Education (AIF-RTE); Associate Editor-'Reconstructing Education'; Permanent Office: Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi , Delhi 110007, India. Ph: +91-11-266659 (O.), +91-11-27662347 (R.) +91-9818193875 (M.) Email: vikas...@gmail.com -- Ajay Arora phd research scholar Centre for the Study of Law and Governance JNU Nelson Mandela Marg New Delhi India 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe
Re: [AI] Fwd: RPD BILL 2014 REFERRED TO PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE
Mr Avinash Shahi who is the chairmen of Parliamentary committee? let us know the adrass - Original Message - From: paulmuddha paulmud...@canarabank.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in; jnuvision jnuvis...@yahoogroups.com; sayeverything sayeveryth...@sayeverything.org; worldopinion worldopin...@googlegroups.com; disability-studies-india disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 2:23 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Fwd: RPD BILL 2014 REFERRED TO PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE It is a good news to all of us. We at Snehadeep trust for the disabled Bangalore conducted a seminar on this very act where in the former supreme court justice mr. M N Venkatachalliah along with the honourable governor of Karnataka took part. Also thanks to Rajesh Asudani who came from Nagpur as a speaker. I wish ultimately a positive out come would come from the parliamentary committe. Paul Muddha- Original Message - From: avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com To: jnuvision jnuvis...@yahoogroups.com; sayeverything sayeveryth...@sayeverything.org; accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in; worldopinion worldopin...@googlegroups.com; disability-studies-india disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 3:11 PM Subject: [AI] Fwd: RPD BILL 2014 REFERRED TO PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE Congratulations to all who campaigned tirelessly for refferring RPD Bill 2014 to a parliamentary committee. Forwarded message begins From: Santosh Kumar Rungta santoshkumar.run...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:52:11 +0530 Subject: Fwd: RPD BILL 2014 REFERRED TO PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE To: shahi88avin...@gmail.com, Javed Abidi abid...@gmail.com, shyamal...@gmail.com -- Forwarded message -- From: Santosh Kumar Rungta santoshkumar.run...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:48 PM Subject: RPD BILL 2014 REFERRED TO PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE To: Dipendra Manocha dipendra.mano...@gmail.com, National Platform For The Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) nprd...@gmail.com, J L Kaul aicbde...@yahoo.com, A.K. Mittal 2 akmit...@rediffmail.com, NAB n...@central.wlink.com.np, rajive raturi rajive.rat...@hrln.org, Amba Salelkar amba.salel...@inclusiveplanet.org.in, K Ramkrishna contact.ramkris...@gmail.com, Jo Chopra j...@latikaroy.org, J P Gadkari jpgadk...@gmail.com, Bhushan Punani blinab...@bsnl.in, ajayaror...@gmail.com, Anuradha Mohit anuradhamo...@gmail.com, Deepak Tandiya deepak.tandi...@gmail.com, Dheepakh PS dheepakh1...@gmail.com Download the original attachment All India Disability Alliance Plot No. 21, Sector-VI, M.B. Road, Hon. Coordinator: Sr. Adv. Shri. S. K. Rungta Pushp Vihar, New Delhi - 110017 Mob: 9312607540 Phone: 011-29562316, 29562318 Fax : 011-29564198 disabilitiesallia...@gmail.com Dated: 21.2.14 Dear colleagues, It gives me a great pleasure to inform and congratulate all of you that our collective efforts to fight the forces in the sector as well as the Govt. to ensure that the discriminatory, and nugatory Bill on the rights of persons with disabilities is not passed in its present form, has at last met with success and the bill has now been referred to the appropriate Parliamentary committee. It is now high time to work together to improve the Bill and present, as far as possible, a common stand in the form of representation under All India Disability Alliance before the appropriate Parliamentary committee for improvement in the Bill. I assure you of my best cooperation in the matter. Thanking you, Yours sincerely, S.K. RUNGTA Coordinator The AIDA is an Alliance of Organizations working on disability rights including: All India Confederation of the Blind, Deafenabled, Delhi University Physically Challenged Teachers Association, Human Rights Law Network, Indian Association of Special Education and Rehabilitation, National Association for the Blind India, National Federation of the Blind, PARIVAAR (National Confederation of Parent's Organizations for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities), Rashtrikya Viklang Manch, Saksham, Handicapped Welfare Federation, Tamilnadu Disability Rights Alliance, Association of Challenged People and Bethany Society Meghalaya -- Avinash Shahi M.Phil Research Scholar Centre for The Study of Law and Governance Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at
[AI] Fw: financial help for tenth passed students
- Original Message - From: aicbde...@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:58 PM Dear Colleagues, If you have come across any bright students coming from poor financial background who have finished their 10th standard this year and scored more than 80%, please ask them to contact the NGO - Prerana (Supported by Infosys foundation). The NGO is conducting a written test and those who clear the test will be eligible for financial help for their further studies. Please ask the students to contact the people mentioned below to get the form: 580, Shubhakar, 44th cross, 1st A main road, Jayanagar, 7th block, Bangalore. Contact numbers: 1. Ms. Saraswati - 099009 06338 2. Mr. Shivkumar - 099866 30301 3. Ms. Bindu - 099645 34667 Even if you don't know anyone, please pass on this info, someone might be in need of this. with kind regards, J.L. Kaul Secretary General AICB 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
[AI] Fw: Can bad law be good?
- Original Message - From: Nilesh Singit To: Pavan Muntha ; flight-wethe...@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 6:32 AM Subject: Can bad law be good? Can bad law be good? The vision is to have a society where all categories of disabled persons are valued and respected as equal citizens and partners in the development and progress of society and they are no longer looked upon either as burdens or liabilities or targets for pity and charity FAIZAN MUSTAFA Why is NALSAR University of Law, the country’s best law school, opposing the Disability Bill introduced a few days back in the Rajya Sabha? Can the latest amendments rectify the defects in the Bill? What can be done to help persons with disability at this stage? These are some of the questions which call for objective and critical analysis. The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) makes the progressive and bold assertion that the disabled have the right to recognition as persons. They have full legal capacity on an equal basis with fellow human beings. Thus the Convention makes a fundamental shift from the “incompetence model” of the disability law to the “universal capacity model”. The Convention challenges the irrational connection between impairment and incompetence. The UNCRPD also guaranteed the right of participation and effective consultation to persons with disabilities. The Government of India implemented this obligation in letter and spirit when it launched the most extensive pre-legislative process, by first establishing a government-civil society committee to prepare a working draft with inputs from all relevant stakeholders, translating the draft into 14 languages and obtaining public opinion on it by travelling across the country. This widely consulted Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill was submitted to the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, in June 2011. The ministry worked on this draft and came out with its version in 2012. Both the 2011 and 2012 Bills were placed on the ministry’s official website. In the face of this elaborate process of consultation, when cabinet approval was obtained on the current Bill in December 2013, it was presumed that the cabinet had approved the same drafts on which civil society and persons with disability were consulted. This belief was belied. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2014 has little or no relationship with the Bill of 2011. People and institutions like NALSAR, which had been closely involved with the 2011 consultative process, feel betrayed and hugely disappointed. A government, which had started the legal reform process by creating due space for the right to participation of persons with disabilities, just lost its way. The outrage of the leakage was soon substituted by the pragmatism of experienced realities. A number of disability rights groups tried to retrieve the situation by stringing together a group of amendments which they contended would salvage the Bill and enable the enactment of a long delayed legislation. Since the amendments were circulated to members of Parliament on 8 February 2014, it is important to consider whether the inadequacies found in the 2014 Bill are fully addressed by the proposed amendments. A large number of persons with disabilities are unable to obtain their just due not so much because of their impairments but because of the prejudicial attitudes of people. It is these prejudicial attitudes which form barriers to their participation. Disability is social not physical. The medical model is an outdated concept. It is for this reason that raising of awareness was included as one of the critical obligations of state parties in the UNCRPD. To arouse awareness, the Bill of 2014 needed to unequivocally state that no person with disability shall be discriminated against on the basis of disability. The Bill does not, unlike the UNCRPD, spell out what constitutes such a discrimination and furthermore, allows the discrimination of persons with disabilities if required for a legitimate purpose, provided that proportionate means are employed. Thus a piece of legislation, intended to afford protection against discrimination, itself permits discrimination and this permission has not been withdrawn or amended by the amendment. In the manner of discrimination, the Bill allows the deprivation of liberty of persons with disabilities provided there are additional reasons for doing so. What is prohibited is discrimination “only on the ground of disability.” A person with disability, who is a vagrant or destitute or considered to be dangerous, could be deprived of liberty because the requirement of equality operates only if liberty is deprived on the basis of disability. The multiplicity of standards again come to the fore when the Bill allows abortions on women with
[AI] Fw: Rthoughts for the National net work of persons with disabilities . feed back please o the
- Original Message - From: Pavan Muntha pavanmun...@gmail.com To: ajoy.karnati ajoy.karn...@gmail.com; Anita Ghai anita.satya...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 8:52 AM Subject: Rthoughts for the National net work of persons with disabilities . feed back please o the Dear All, Hello, when we start looking at the happy Weekend this week at least, our energies are taking us to do more constructive work as follows. Some of us in Delhi and also from different States of our Country are contemplating for a Cross Disability National Net Work to set up a platform to bring together our voices with the support of different social groups working for socially marginalized/excluded people's constituencies, to make sure that the voices of majority of us are heard by the law makers of India now and in future. Some of us are meeting at 2pm tomorrow at NFB office to discuss the modalities as follows. A. Why do we need to set up this National net work? B. If it is necessary, what are the modalities and non- negociables that bring us together? C. What are the challenges we face to take our voices forward? D. If a National net work is not necessary, what alternatives we have to do the needful to address our issues and to sustain the spirit of the disability rights movement to protect our just rights now and in future? E. Please do give your thoughts asap. We apologize for challenging you to share your thoughts by 11o clock tomorrow morning. Pavan and santhosh Rungta. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
[AI] Fw: Question
friends good evening: please read this wich i got from another list k. srinivas. - Original Message - From: Rijul Kochhar To: Meenakshi Balasubramaniam Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:51 PM Subject: Re: Question Hello all, I think the draft suffers from a number of lacunae that merit it's pause at this stage. These concern aspects of legal capacity, questions of identification of posts, non obstante clauses regarding education institutions, access in govt. establishments as opposed to ALL public spaces run by govt. or privately, recognition of sign language, etc. Amba has dealt with these in her comments and we should all read them in order to understand the phenomenal paucities in the bill, ad hoc amendments notwithstanding. Although inclusion of other disabilities within the ambit of the law is vital, we must be clear that this inclusion is not mere lip-service; that there are no other clauses in the bill that will take away with another hand what the law giveth with one hand. To my mind, there is one such clause major clause amongst others, a clause that underwrites and illustrates the bad-faith that is at the heart of the legislation (and the inglorious history of its genesis). This clause is section 3(3), and it states: (3) No person with disability shall be discriminated on the ground of disability, unless it is shown that the impugned act or omission is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim We must all seriously contemplate the consequences of this clause. What stops an agency or establishment from perpetrating discrimination against somebody with autism, for example, or blindness, or thalassemia, for achieving a legitimate aim, however feeble or puerile those aims may be? Legitimate aim can be another means for perpetuating discrimination, and this time it stands with the threat of affecting all varieties of differently disabled persons; this is the legal institutionalization of discrimination! We should be careful about being seduced by increase in quotas to 5% (when even the existent 3% quotas are not filled, out of omission or commission of discriminatory practices and attitudes at the level of implementation). Nor must we allow ourselves to be seduced by the promise of enlarged categories of disabilities receiving recognition on paper--when that recognition is effectively rendered null and void by other problematic aspects of the bill. Section 3 (3) is one such troubling aspect; there are others too, pertaining to guardianship, legal capacity, the reproductive rights of women, rights of parents to bring up children, rights of disabled children to families, the identification of posts (in contravention of the recent SC judgement opening up ALL places of work, something that all of us cheered not to long ago), etc. This list of problems, problems that threaten already secured rights through the courts, is indeed a long one, and needs time to be studied and ironed-out. Ove rnight declarations and celebrations of amendments make not a law, a law that will probably remain on the books for a few decades, and a law that will affect millions of citizens, not all of who are legally conversant, but all of who hope and dream with the understanding (faulty, i might add), that this is still their promised, cherished bill from 2011. The 2014 draft, sadly is not the 2011 draft, notwithstanding what millions of people think, and its passage will be a betrayal most colossal, and it will be unforgivable. Do we want to sign away in the same bill what we think has been granted to us? And lastly, if some amongst us claim (wrongly, i think), that disability is a non-political issue--which it is not, for it deals with fundamental questions about life, the body, the state, resources, autonomy and dignity, and equal treatment before the law--then why is it that we fear that the next party-political dispensation will lack the ability to pass this or an alternative legislation? I think we must wait, ponder, regroup, and demand passage of a fresh bill that is closer to the 2011 avtaar than to a mangled version of 2014. And we have the UNCRPD to thank, for a new law must be passed according to the convention's requirements, to which we have signed up. We must decide if what we want is seductive but ultimately illusory, or whether we need a legislation that arms us with the legal resources necessary for securing the rights of a few generations of disabled lives. For the law is only a law; the real battle will come with post-facto rules, which we must be very careful about, and those rules will be effective only if we have a legislation that does not allow discriminatory interpretations. What we need is not an ad hoc law, for we already have that from 1995; we need now a legislation that has other aims--recognition of more disabilities is certainly one such worthy aim, but we must be careful that this recognition
[AI] Fw: Comments on the Amendments to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill
- Original Message - From: Pavan Muntha pavanmun...@gmail.com To: Anita Ghai anita.satya...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 3:02 AM Subject: Re: Comments on the Amendments to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill Dear Anithaji, I hope that you got the cabinet approved RPD Bill 2014, amendments circulated in Rajsabha and got the time to read it at least now. Please do understand why this Bill is contentious I hope that you will agree with me, General Principles of CRPD with reference to respect to deference is also a guiding principle and it is important to us. In my view which you may agree with me again, we are,who ever is working toward a common objective are interested in protecting our rights with sense of understanding for gender and disability and gendered disabilities patronage too in gender biased our patriarchal world order that we live in. For me and for many of us the current debate on our rights is not about protecting our anxieties followed by betrayal that came now in the form of amendments circulated in the parliament alone but for the propagation of skewed logic of heterogeneity and it's associated fear of making access to just rights of all of us impossible also. Who got the intentions to attack you are anybody,unless our writing is misunderstood deliberately to set aside the just arguments and to give morals of unity at the cost of silencing the note of demand for legal compliance. At lease, please start reading the documents and mails carefully before portraying all of us as we are fighting among us. Yes, all of us are in your view in many ways asking for a perfect Bill,please read the mails and try to understand to what extent we can take imperfectness that we can accept and give it to persons with disabilities in rural and urban areas and let us know. I do understand the mother of the artistic child who found some place in National Trust Act 1999 and the kind of support it could extend to families with children with disabilities in a minimalistic way, for your information, this Bill is taking away every possible just right by legitimizing discrimination which underpin every access to rights by bringing in authorities to grant such right to us at their disposal with discretionary decisions of officers, RMPs (not even Doctors), committees constituted for such exercise discretionary. pavan. On 09/02/2014, Anita Ghai anita.satya...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All As I have been out of the circulation, I am little late in responding. I reached Delhi yesteday and have been since then reading each mail. As a feminist we have always believed in the fact that even though universal sisterhood is not possible, we do not lose the relational ties .The idea is to understand the marginalised categories As far as I understand the bill has some positive strokes and some bad ones. It is far from being perfect, as each person wants their own perspective. I want women with disabilities to be included in the real sense where as a mother with autism is hoping that the new bill will look after her son/ daughter. We do have to weigh the pros and cons before we decide whether we should or should not kill the bill. Monday is going to be significant for all of us , but let us talk to each other and promise that come what may, we would not give up on advocating for the cause of disability of everyone. It should be our cause our pain and our joy and our sorrow . Please understand that state does not make it easy for able and disabled to have a dignified and meaningful existence. As a woman with disability, i think that blaming each other is not going to help. The fact that disability has its heterogeneity, and it is not easy for any bill to capture the nuances of our lives. This is not to preach(please do not attack me) but to say that let us see the bill and see if any changes are there or not and then react. I do hope that we get a copy from who so ever has access to the full text asap . This is a request please. warmly Anita Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. we need it to stand on this earth as men and women. -Joss Whedon Anita Ghai The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, Audre Lorde (1979). Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. Albert Camus http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_camus.html Permanent Address Department Of Psychology Jesus and Mary College Resi:- J12/68 B Rajouri Garden New Delhi, 110027 India 110027 On 8 February 2014 13:46, Amba Salelkar amba.salel...@gmail.com wrote: Please circulate. *Comments on the Amendments to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill as presented at RPD Bill 2013 - Question of Protection of Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Jeevan Jyoti Hyderabad, on 8th February, 2014* Compiled by Prof. Amita Dhanda (NALSAR
Re: [AI] Fw: Proposed amendments to the Rights of Personswith Disabilities Bill 2014
Dear friends good afternoon to all of you: I would like to invite your attention to the fact that today around 70% of the vacancies of higher posts are filled up through promotions, and the rest 30% by the direct recruitment. This is more so in many State Governments. Under these circumstances, providing reservation only in the direct recruitment hardly serves any meaningful purpose. Farther I am to state that in schools and colleges the posts of headmasters and principals and in every office the post of superintendent will be filled only through promotions. There fore Reservation in promotions also needed k. srinivas secretary DWAB Nalgonda A P And CEC member AICB Email: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: Asudani, Rajesh rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Fw: Proposed amendments to the Rights of Personswith Disabilities Bill 2014 No, the proposed amendments are not still acceptable me thinks. Definition of low vision is not still there. Reservation provisions are muddled... Bifurcation of reservation between blind and low vision is done away with. It will perpetuate the exclusion of blind from jobs as is the case at present. My opinion may not be acceptable at present, but I have been proved right in many instances. For instance, banking difficulties persist due to not following judgment of CCPD in the matter and lack of explicit guidelines by RBI about cheques... Similarly non bifurcation of blind/low vision and not increasing percentage of reservation will entail innnumerable hardships... Enforcement machinery is still toothless... So, please do not fall for undue haste of the government and some champions of disability rights and do press for the bill to go to standing committee.. I don't know what happened. On friday, We were given to understand that the bill has already been refeerred to standing committee. Then why it has resurfaced for passage today? -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Kanchan Pamnani Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 1:58 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] Fw: Proposed amendments to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill 2014 Proposed amendments to the RPwD Bill, 2014 S.No. Proposed clause by the Ministry 1 Clause 2 (q)- 'Persons with disability' means a person with long term physical , mental, intellectual, or sensory impairment which in interaction with barriers in the environment , hinder his/her full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others 2 Clause 2 (j)- High support ' means an intensive support, physical, psychological and otherwise, which may be required by a person with benchmark disability for daily activities, to take independent and informed decision, to access facilities and participating in all areas of life including education, employment , family and community life and treatment and therapy 3 Clause 2 (v)- 'Rehabilitation' refers to a process aimed at enabling person with disabilities to attain and maintain optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychological, or social function levels 4 Clause 12- Legal Capacity New sub-clause to be added:- 12 (1) The appropriate Government shall ensure that the persons with disabilities enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of life and have the right to equal recognition everywhere as any other person before the law. 5. Clause 13 - Provision for guardianship 1. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, on and from the date of commencement of this act, where a district court or any designated authority, as notified by the State Government , finds that a person with disability, who had been provided adequate and appropriate support but is unable to take legally binding decisions, S.No. Proposed clause by the Ministry may be provided further support of a limited guardian to take legally binding decisions on his/her behalf in consultation with such person, in such manner, as may be prescribed by the State Government . Explanation - For the purposes of this section - (i) limited guardianship means a system of joint decision which operates on mutual understanding and trust between the guardian and the person with disability. The limited guardianship would be time limited and for specific decisions and situations and would work in accordance to the will of the person: Provided that the District Court or any other designated authority may grant total
[AI] reg A I convention
Dear harish sir good morning to you: One of my friend Mr amrutha reddy O H working as treasury officer would like to participate in A I convention. He did not register his name. Let me know the venue and other details. Please send me the cell No of person to whom shell he contact. This is his cell No 09951610757 Email ID is amruthredd...@yahoo.co.in k. srinivas srinivas.carn...@gmail.con 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] (no subject)
i also fully agree with poonam. - Original Message - From: Poonam Persedi poonam...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 8:33 AM Subject: [AI] (no subject) Re: Do join: Protest at the Official residence of DOPT Minister, V. Narayanaswamy tomorrow (KanchanPamnani) Dear friends! I am afraid I am unable to agree with Kanchan madam. On the contrary, I do agree with Avinash and others who do not favour the passage of this bill in its present form as it is replete with serious flaws which will have catastrophic consequences and which run counter to the purpose and spirit of UNCRPD. Let us not lose sight of the fact that we could not even get the existing PWD Act amended in the last sixteen seventeen years of its enactment despite the realisation that it has any number of inadequacies. The report of the Amita Dhanda committee constituted in 1999 for the purpose of suggesting amendments was conveniently shelved. Even efforts to bring about a new law would not have been made had it not been for India ratifying the UNCRPD. Therefore, we should rather wait to get a better and fair deal unless the bill is amended as suggested by Mr. Rungta. In the above view of the matter, I wish to place on record my sincere appreciation and solidarity with the National Federation of the Blind in general and Mr. Santosh Rungta in particular for such visible and positive proactivism for getting a fair deal for persons with disabilities including for the blind. Best regards, Poonam 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] Attention: Join us in the Protest Against Ill-Thought RPD Bill on 28 January 2014
Mr. Avinash Shahi I would like to invite your attention to the fact that today around 70% of the vacancies of higher posts are filled up through promotions, and the rest 30% by the direct recruitment. This is more so in many State Governments. Under these circumstances, providing reservation only in the direct recruitment hardly serves any meaningful purpose. I, therefore, request you to kindly address this issue also and ask to the government of India to modify section 33 of the cabinet approved draft bill in such a way as to provide reservation in promotions as well. k. srinivas secretary DWAB Nalgonda A P And CEC member AICB Email: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in; sayeverything sayeveryth...@sayeverything.org; disability-studies-india disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 3:04 AM Subject: [AI] Attention: Join us in the Protest Against Ill-Thought RPD Bill on 28 January 2014 Dear All We earnestly request you to join us in the protest against the Government’s ill-thought approved Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2013 Bill which government is planning to introduce in the next session in the parliament. This Bill has countless provisions which are detrimental to the interests of persons with disabilities. We demand Nodal Ministry, The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to reconsider its decision to ahead with the introduction of the Bil and make necessary rectification in consonance with UNCRPD forthwith. Protest Venue: Shastri Bhawan in front of MSJE Office New Delhi Date: 28 January 2014 Timing: sharp 10:00 Indian Standard Time. Below I’m highlighting major contentions of the Bill for your perusal. 1. Section 32 of the approved RPD Bill which deals with the identification of posts is oblivious to the verdict delivered by the Highest Court on October 8 2013. It quashed the central government’s 2005 office memorandum and claim that reservation for the disabled must be restricted to “identified” posts. The apex court ruled that the reservation must be on the basis of the total number of vacancies in a particular cadre rather than posts identified by the government. 2. The definition of low vision in the Bill is deleterious to the interests of both blind and low vision. Low vision Definition given at Sl. No.11 of the Schedule to the Bill of the definition of blindness at Sl. No.2 of the schedule to the Bill when compared with the definition of low vision in question, clearly reveals that the Bill seeks to create further confusion with regard to certification of blindness and low vision to the detriment of the interest of the blind. It is pertinent to note here that while the definition of blindness given in the schedule provides that if anyone has a vision not exceeding 3/60 or 10/200 (snellen) in the better eye but at the same time the definition of low vision provides that if anyone has a vision not exceeding 6/18 or 20/60 and less than 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses, he may be certified as low vision. It implies that a person could fall in both the categories at the same time and certified so both blind and low vision. This is so because the definition of low vision allows a person to be certified as low vision if one has vision less than 6/60 or 20/200 making certain persons covered by the maximum range of vision for being certified as blind. As such, if the present definition of low vision is retained, the benefits which otherwise were also difficult to be obtained by the blind particularly totally blind, would become more difficult to be obtained by them. 3. Section 73 (A)of the approved Bill calls for constitution of National Commission for persons with disabilities But unlike other commissions like National Commissions for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Minorities, and women doesn’t mandate that it should be headed by persons with disability. Not only these, there are many more loopholes like lowering of age relaxation, review of identified posts at the interval of five years, no specific mentioning of public places, recommendationary powers to NCPD alert us not to allow this Bill’s introduction in the upcoming parliament session which will be re-convened for vote on Account in the next month’s first fortnight. Please join us in large numbers and spread this call message like a fire across your network. -- 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:
Re: [AI] Fwd: representation submited by SK roongta to the government for the reconsideration of the draft.
Sir: could you please post the content of the two attachments or representation submitted by SK roongta the general secretary NFB India to the government for the reconsideration of the draft. k. srinivas Email: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in; jnuvision jnuvis...@yahoogroups.com; worldopinion worldopin...@googlegroups.com; sayeverything sayeveryth...@sayeverything.org; disability-studies-india disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:25 AM Subject: [AI] Fwd: representation submited by SK roongta to the government for the reconsideration of the draft. I once again mention four importants points which need to be opposed at any cost. 1. Identification of posts. 2. point 5 point 5 percent distinction between totally blind and low vision. 3. National Commission for persons with disabilities should be headed by not anyone but someone who is disabled. 4. Inclusive Education should be given more emphasis, ensuring enrollment is not enough. 5. Intense discussion and debates should be conducted before making RPD document as law. Please get ready to join the protest against hasty passage of this Bill.. And circulate among your networks. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ajay Arora ajayaror...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:13:19 +0530 Subject: representation submited by SK roongta to the government for the reconsideration of the draft. To: avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com, vikas...@gmail.com dear avinash and vikas sir, please go through the following two attachment. it should be our most respectful duty to dessiminate the info for the supreme cause of disableds. i can see that the opposite party is being much appreciated because they are good at spreading their version in a fast and furious manner. whereas, not many of us know that the present draft approved by the cabinet is hugely problematic. with regards Ajay -- Ajay Arora phd research scholar Board member NAPSIPAG Conference Organizing Team NAPSIPAG Secretariat Centre for the Study of Law and Governance JNU Nelson Mandela Marg New Delhi Contact Mobile +91-8826360111. Office: +91-11-26704761 email: ajayaror...@gmail.com -- Best Regards Secretariat Network of Asia-Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG) Center for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University India. www.napsipag.org t: 91 11 6466 6856 -- 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
[AI] Fw: URGENT: DRAFT PRESS RELEASE
- Original Message - From: National Platform For The Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) To: undisclosed-recipients: Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 2:27 AM Subject: Fwd: URGENT: DRAFT PRESS RELEASE Disabled Rights Group (DRG) National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) January 9, 2014 PRESS STATEMENT Disabled Activists meet Sonia Gandhi A nine-member delegation of the Disabled Rights Group (DRG) and the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) met Congress President, Sonia Gandhi today in its continuing effort to seek the support of major political parties to ensure the introduction and passage of the Disability Rights Bill when Parliament is re-convened early next month. The DRG - NPRD delegation tried to impress upon Mrs. Gandhi that though the process of drafting the new law started over four years back and has gone through various stages, the Bill is yet to be introduced in the Parliament. The Congress President assured the delegation of her party’s full support in ensuring the passage of the Bill. She also assured the delegation that she would personally take up the matter with the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Kamal Nath on prioritizing the Bill for enactment in the agenda when Parliament is reconvened next month. The DRG the NPRD thank Mrs. Gandhi for the assurance of support given by her. In this entire process of meeting the political leadership of the country, the DRG and the NPRD have already met Vice President Hamid Ansari, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat and BJP leader in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley. All these leaders have assured their best support for the speedy enactment of the disability rights legislation. The members of the delegation which called upon Sonia Gandhi were: Javed Abidi (Convener, DRG), Muralidharan (Secretary, NPRD), Merry Barua (Action for Autism), Syamala Gidugu (AADI), Neelam Jolly (VISHWAS), Radhika Alkazi (Aarth-Aastha), George Abraham (Score) and Zorin Singha A. S Narayanan (National Association for the Deaf). Javed Abidi. Muralidharan Convener, DRG. Secretary, NPRD Contact details for Javed Abidi: Email: abid...@gmail.com Mobile: 9811038018 Contact details for Muralidharan: Mobile 9868768543 Email: nprd...@gmail.com 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] New Law
At present the blind are getting 1% reservation for 100 posts. Now it will be divided half % to each the totally blind and low vision. - Original Message - From: Radha r.radh...@gmail.com To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerningthe disabled. accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2013 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [AI] New Law sorry for ignorance, what does it mean by half reservation for 100% VI? On 12/15/13, srinivas.karnati srinivas.carn...@gmail.com wrote: but in case of 100% v i half % reservation only. it is a big minus point. - Original Message - From: Neelima Surve neelima.a...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [AI] New Law Completely agree with Markandshwarji. Increasing reservation is one of the most important step for all the handicap. Especially for VI. Let us hope for the best. -- God examine those whom loves he the most. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. -- Cheers, Radha Everything you want in your life is waiting for you an inch outside your comfort zone, and an inch inside your effort. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] New Law
but in case of 100% v i half % reservation only. it is a big minus point. - Original Message - From: Neelima Surve neelima.a...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [AI] New Law Completely agree with Markandshwarji. Increasing reservation is one of the most important step for all the handicap. Especially for VI. Let us hope for the best. -- God examine those whom loves he the most. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] Dharna by Disabled Employees
Dear sir good evening to you: On be half of the teaching community of Andhra Pradesh state I am to state that it is the (3rd October)last working day to us if we fail to attend duty we will lass salary for 15 days. So we cannot attend dharna. Kindly excuse us. - Original Message - From: Muralidharan V murali.alat...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 8:22 PM Subject: [AI] Dharna by Disabled Employees A dharna by disabled employees working in various government departments. PSUs, Banks etc will be held on October 3, 2013 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi from 11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. The leaflet brought out by the National Platform of Disabled Employees (NPDE) is given below: *National Platform OF Disabled Employees* *Appeal to All Disabled Employees* *Working in all Government Establishments* *Dear Friends,* * * There is widespread anger among disabled employees that in the latest version of the Draft of the Bill to replace the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995, the issue of reservation in promotions and other issues related to employees with disabilities that were contained in the earlier draft have been deleted. Employees with disabilities working in various central and state government departments and establishments had looked forward to provisions in the draft of the Bill which would safeguard their interests. Unfortunately, we have been let down. This injustice cannot be tolerated anymore. We have to unite and raise our voice against the continuing discrimination being meted out to disabled employees. We demand: - Reservation in Promotions - Posting near home-town - Enhanced pension on retirement - Disabled friendly work place - Transport allowance for deaf employees The National Platform of Disabled Employees (NPDE) formed consequent to the successful convention of disabled employees held on 7th July 2013 at New Delhi expresses its anger and displeasure at the continuing discrimination and step-motherly treatment of disabled employees. The NPDE appeals to all disabled employees working in government establishments and departments to rally in full force to demand the incorporation of the above in draft of the New Disability Bill. The entire disability sector in the country has been waiting for years together for the introduction of the Bill. The wait has to end. And to our satisfaction. Come to Delhi on October 3, 2013 Participate in the Dharna at Jantar Mantar from 11.00 a.m to 2.00 p.m. * * *Organized By* *National Platform of Disabled Employees (NPDE)* * * * Supported By* *Northern Railway Physically Handicapped Employees Welfare Association (NRPHEWA)* *National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD)* *Deaf Employees Welfare Association (DEWA) Others* 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] Fw: DHARNA BY DISABLED EMPLOYEES AT NEW DELHI SCHEDULED TO BEHELD ON 3rd OCTOBER 2013
Dear sir good evening to you: On be half of the teaching community of Andhra Pradesh state I am to state that it is the (3rd October)last working day to us if we fail to attend duty we will lass salary for 15 days. So we cannot attend dharna. Kindly excuse us. - Original Message - From: amruthreddy kasarla amruthredd...@yahoo.co.in To: Akki Reddy Guntur akkireddy.kes...@gmail.com; Ande anderamb...@gmail.com; Hanif ATP mahammadhaneef...@gmail.com; Mahesh Reddy AE PR mahiga...@rediffmail.com; Hanmanth Rao AE PKM srikanthgudip...@yahoo.co.in; Nageswar Rao KKD AE knagesh_...@yahoo.com; Purushotham rao aprao...@gmail.com; Satya aswo...@gmail.com; Vijay Kumar Addl. Diorector gandlavij...@gmail.com; Venkateshwar Reddy NLR admg_...@yahoo.co.in; accessindia@accessindia.org.in; addw...@gmail.com; addw...@gmail.com; aetes...@gmail.com; allapalli...@yahoo.com; alokagrawal@gmail.com; ams...@yahoo.com; assents...@gmail.com; aptreasur...@googlegroups.com; asrvafbwgepresid...@gmail.com; anupriy...@yahoo.co.in; accessindia@accessindia.org.in; asoka7...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 8:10 PM Subject: [AI] Fw: DHARNA BY DISABLED EMPLOYEES AT NEW DELHI SCHEDULED TO BEHELD ON 3rd OCTOBER 2013 Dear friends, To support the cause of reservation in promotions to the disabled employees,lets participate in the DHARNA to ventilate our grievances. Please make it convenient to attend the same and make it success. With Regards, Amruth Reddy K President, Differently Abled Employees Welfare Association Ap, Hyderabad. http://andhrapradeshemployeeswithdisabilites.blogspot.com/ Mob: 9951610757. in the t DISABILITY INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY at: http://kodakkal.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network To control which emails you receive on DISABILITY INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY, click here 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] being humiliated at the railway station
Friends I have also faced such problems in tirupathi and SECUNDERABAD. I think that this kind of problems will not be arise if the railway department will issue a pass/card to the PWD. our organizations should fight with the railway authorities for such pas/card. k. srinivas. Email: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com cell: 09490589531 - Original Message - From: reem shamsudeen reemshamsud...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 10:20 PM Subject: [AI] being humiliated at the railway station BEING HUMILIATED… YESTARDAY I WAS REFUSED TO GET THE RAILWAY TICKET ON THE CONCESSION THAT CAN BE AVAILED BY THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS. THE SECUNDERABAD RAILWAY STATION AUTHORITIES WERE ON THE ARGUMENT THAT, THE CIRTIFICATE I HAD PRODUCED WAS NOT DUELY SIGNED BY THE CONCERNED PERSON. ON THE CONTRARY, I COULD PROVE I AM ONE HUNDRED PERCENT RIGHT, EVEN BY PRODUCING THE BAR CODE NUMBER TO THE RAILWAY CIRCULAR WHICH SAYS THAT I AM CORRECT. WHEREAS THE EGOISTIC, ADAMENT, AND ARROGANT AUTHORITY (CRI ON DUTY) REFUSED TO UNDERSTAND MY POINT, AND TOLD ME THAT HE IS GOING TO BLACK LIST ME. I DEMANDED FOR A WRITTEN STATEMENT WHICH SAYS THAT HE CANNOT ISSUE ME THE TICKET ON THE BASIS OF THE CIRTIFICATE I PRODUCED, AS PER HIS KNOWLEDGE THE CIRTIFICATE IS NOT VALID. BUT HE WAS NOT READY TO GIVE IT TO ME IN WRITING. HE MADE ME AND MY OTHER TWO FRIENDS WAIT IN THE RAILWAYSTATION FOR MORE THAN TWO HOURS, AND EVENTUALLY WHEN I PUT DOWN MY FOOT AND SAID THAT I WON’T LEAVE IF THE ISSUE IS NOT SORTED OUT HE ISSUED US THE TICKET SAYING THAT NEXT TIME ONWARDS I SHOULDN’T USE THE SAME CIRTIFICATE. I AM ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CERTAIN THAT I AM RIGHT IN EVERY SENSE, AND THIS ATTITUDE IS MERE IGNORANCE FROM THE AUTHORITIES PART. WHEN I WAS DEMANDING FOR MY RIGHT, HE WAS THREATENING ME SAYING THAT HE WILL BLACK LIST ME. I COULD ARGUE FOR MY RIGHT, AS I AM EXPOSED TO THE RULES, WAS SUPPORTED BY SENSIBLE, HELPING FRIENDS, AND AS I CAN AVAIL OTHER FECELITIES. THIS MAY NOT BE THE CASE FOR ALL. RIGHTS SHOULD BE PROVIDED BY DEFOLT, AND NOT ON THE DEMAND. THANKS MY DEARS; YOU WERE THERE WITH ME…. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] FW: Concessions and facilities for V.I.P. in public road transportation in various states
Mister Gautam Agarwal: I am k. srinivas from Andhra Pradesh. These are the answers for your questions. 1. 50% 2. For escort also 3. To the totally blind is with escort. for low vision escort is not allowed. 4. up to the boundaries of our state only. 5. The concession is allowed in ordinary, express and in deluxe services. The concession is not allowed in super luxury garuda and indhra services. 6. requires a periodic renewal (once in year). 7. No idea. 8. There is No income limit. However the concession is not allowed to the government servants. thanking you sir. k. srinivas Andhra Pradesh. - Original Message - From: gtm.agra...@gmail.com To: Access india accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 6:09 AM Subject: [AI] FW: Concessions and facilities for V.I.P. in public road transportation in various states -Original message- From: National Federation of the Blind, Karnataka Sent: 26/07/2013, 5:30 pm To: Mr. Goutam Prakash Agarwal Subject: Concessions and facilities for V.I.P. in public road transportation in various states Dear List members, on the behalf of NFB Karnataka I would like to have some informations regarding concession /facilities available to VIP in public road transportation in various states. As this list has representation of all states, so members of different states are requested to respond the following queries 1. How much concession in fair is given to V.I. person in your state? 2. If the concession is available only to the V.I. Commuter, or his/her escort also ? 3. Whether the concession is given only to totally blind person or low vision also? 4. Whether the concession is restricted upto the boundaries of your state or it is also available in neighboring states upto where the buses of your state road services operate? 5. If the concession is allowed only in ordinary services or in luxury services also? 6. If a permanent pass is issued to avail the concession or it requires a periodic renewal? 7. If advance reservation of seats in long journey is allowed or not? 8. If any income limit has been prescribed to avail the concession/facilities? I do believe that learned members from all states would oblige me to respond all afforstated queries infact, we at Karnataka are in process of negotiation with the state government to review the scheme of free travel facility for visually challenged. So the informations received from all of you may help us in better negotiation With regards Gautam Agarwal General Secretary NFB Karnataka -- National Federation of the Blind # 36, 100 Feet Ring Road, Veerbhadranagar, BSK 3rd Stage, Bangalore- 560085 Ph: 080-26728845 Mob: 9916368800 Email: nfbkarnat...@gmail.com 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
[AI] Fw: A.P. Highcourt ordered infavour of 3% budget for disabled sector
- Original Message - From: srinu vasulu To: Nageswar RaO kOLLI ; Nalgonda Srinu ; Naseer ; Nara Nageswar Rao ; nlg ; nallamala1...@yahoo.com ; nani...@gmail.com ; narenap...@gmail.com ; nganeshn...@yahoo.co.in ; opjre...@gmail.com ; PVSS Rama Rao Advocate ; Purushotham rao ; Padma ; Padma S.A ; Panith Veduri ; Panitha ; Prabhu RSTL ; pavanmun...@yahoo.com ; pba...@jsr.tatasteel.com ; rs.ame...@gmail.com ; rsame...@gmail.com ; Raavi kiran nisg ; Radhika ; Rajanna NZB ; Rajesh RBI ; Sekhar Babu Nellore ; Subuddi L ; Srinivas Reddy Treasurer MBNR ; Satya ; subbareddy1...@gmail.com ; srinivas.carn...@gmail.com ; Sadanand KRMR ; Sakshi reporter ; Satynarayana Vishnu ; Siva Kumari SO ; Srinivas AE KRMR ; Sripathi S. Finance. ; Subuddi ; SuryaNarayana VZN ; Swapna Reddy C ; saijanardha...@gmail.com ; srikala.bhar...@gmail.com ; srinivas.pich...@yahoo.com ; sweek...@yahoo.com ; sudha.k...@gmail.com ; surendraband...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:02 AM Subject: Fwd: A.P. Highcourt ordered infavour of 3% budget for disabled sector Dear All, Greetings from NPdO, We are happy to share with you that the Honorable High court of Andhrapradesh has given the Judgment In favor of 3% budget allocation in all Departments for the empowerment of the Persons with Disabilities as per the GO Ms No1, 24 of Government Of A.P, PWDs Act 1995, UNCRPD, Planning Commission Mandates which will impact the lives of the PWDs across the State. The High Court ordered the Andhrapradesh state government without any further delay and necessary budget allocation shall be made. . We are thanking all the DPOs, CBOs, NGOs, Community activists provided information us in filing the PIL, we are also requesting the DPOs to demand the officials at all levels for the 3% budget allocation out of nearly 1.5 lak core budget of the state. NPdO is in the process of taking up campaigns at grassroots of Andhrapradesh on this judgment of 3% budget allocation with collaboration of rights based like minded DPOs,/CBOs and human rights activists. Please find the attachment of the Judgment Copy…. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] Fw: Your petition is lonely - get it some signatures!
1 your first name 2 last name 3 Email id 4 postel code 5 comment (optional) - Original Message - From: Siddalingeshwar Ingalagi ingalagisi...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Fw: Your petition is lonely - get it some signatures! hi sir, I opened that link but there are 5 edit boxs so what I have to fill there? Because they did not mention what to type on that edit boxs. On 6/27/13, srinivas.karnati srinivas.carn...@gmail.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Change.org To: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 6:56 AM Subject: Your petition is lonely - get it some signatures! Hi srinivas , A key step to making your petition a success is finding people to sign it. Have you shared your petition with your friends yet? Your contacts can provide the first wave of support for your petition -- and even lead to hundreds more signatures. Here's an email you can send to your friends right now: Hello! I've started the petition To His Excellency President of IndiaEnter : advise the union Government and the Indian Parliament and need your help to get it off the ground. Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/to-his-excellency-president-of-indiaenter-advise-the-union-government-and-the-indian-parliament Here's why it's important: To His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee Hon’ble President of India Ref: 135/dwab/2012 Dated: 4th November 2012 Respected Sir, Sub: Right to equality for persons with disabilities — a proposal for constitutional Recognition — a humble submission for expeditious action-regarding: We, on behalf of the Development and Welfare Association of the Blind (Andhra Pradesh), in consultation with several other organisations and like-minded individuals, hereby submit the following few lines for your kind enough consideration and request you with humility to do the needful in the direction of providing constitutional remedy to the historic injustice inflicted upon the citizens with disabilities in our land of rich heritage and culture of co-existence: As his Excellency might be fully aware, nearly Three Crore Indians — 3% of our population — are officially counted as people suffering from various disabilities, visual-impairment, hearing-impairment and other locomotor disabilities in particular. Ironically enough, a large proportion of this population suffers gross negligence in the hands of our public institutions. It is now estimated that nearly Fifteen Million visually-impaired and around Sixty-four Million other disabled have been subjected to the cruelties of daily life, and almost all of them are living without basic amenities such as food, decent clothing, a shelter of their own and minimum education. At a time our policy echelons are busy ensuring human rights for other marginalised groups, SCs, STs and Women, here are the minuscule minority who live away in a shear silence a life that falls below the standards any civilisation can ever think of. We hope his Excellency would agree with us in a candid admission that the socio-economic backwardness of persons with disabilities in our country stems from nowhere but our own constitution that fails to make any meaningful provision for the rights of this scattered community. While Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution took extra-care to ensure the right of equality for all citizens in India, with enough safeguards for such marginalised sections as SCs, STs and OBCs through affirmative policy in education and employment, persons with disabilities have been conveniently forsaken in this thwarted war of vote-bank politics. Look at, for example, the speed with which Governments in the recent past have moved swiftly and brought about 27% reservation for OBCs in education and employment through the constitutional Amendment, and the same swiftness that can be seen in the present regime’s attempt to provide 33% reservation for women through another Constitutional Amendment. Persons with disabilities at times really feel let down in the present political climate where every community with a sizeable Vote-bank and social capital is frequently showered with all policy concessions, whereas, persons with disabilities, who are a scattered minority at best (with very little advantage for commanding vote-bank manoeuvring in a given place), are never taken seriously by our majoritarian democracy. Consequently, the real concerns of this genuinely deprived community hardly get any attention, whatsoever. The depiction briefly outlined above may give you an impression that the signatories of this letter are unaware
[AI] Fw: Your petition is lonely - get it some signatures!
- Original Message - From: Change.org To: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 6:56 AM Subject: Your petition is lonely - get it some signatures! Hi srinivas , A key step to making your petition a success is finding people to sign it. Have you shared your petition with your friends yet? Your contacts can provide the first wave of support for your petition -- and even lead to hundreds more signatures. Here's an email you can send to your friends right now: Hello! I've started the petition To His Excellency President of IndiaEnter : advise the union Government and the Indian Parliament and need your help to get it off the ground. Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/to-his-excellency-president-of-indiaenter-advise-the-union-government-and-the-indian-parliament Here's why it's important: To His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee Hon’ble President of India Ref: 135/dwab/2012 Dated: 4th November 2012 Respected Sir, Sub: Right to equality for persons with disabilities — a proposal for constitutional Recognition — a humble submission for expeditious action-regarding: We, on behalf of the Development and Welfare Association of the Blind (Andhra Pradesh), in consultation with several other organisations and like-minded individuals, hereby submit the following few lines for your kind enough consideration and request you with humility to do the needful in the direction of providing constitutional remedy to the historic injustice inflicted upon the citizens with disabilities in our land of rich heritage and culture of co-existence: As his Excellency might be fully aware, nearly Three Crore Indians — 3% of our population — are officially counted as people suffering from various disabilities, visual-impairment, hearing-impairment and other locomotor disabilities in particular. Ironically enough, a large proportion of this population suffers gross negligence in the hands of our public institutions. It is now estimated that nearly Fifteen Million visually-impaired and around Sixty-four Million other disabled have been subjected to the cruelties of daily life, and almost all of them are living without basic amenities such as food, decent clothing, a shelter of their own and minimum education. At a time our policy echelons are busy ensuring human rights for other marginalised groups, SCs, STs and Women, here are the minuscule minority who live away in a shear silence a life that falls below the standards any civilisation can ever think of. We hope his Excellency would agree with us in a candid admission that the socio-economic backwardness of persons with disabilities in our country stems from nowhere but our own constitution that fails to make any meaningful provision for the rights of this scattered community. While Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution took extra-care to ensure the right of equality for all citizens in India, with enough safeguards for such marginalised sections as SCs, STs and OBCs through affirmative policy in education and employment, persons with disabilities have been conveniently forsaken in this thwarted war of vote-bank politics. Look at, for example, the speed with which Governments in the recent past have moved swiftly and brought about 27% reservation for OBCs in education and employment through the constitutional Amendment, and the same swiftness that can be seen in the present regime’s attempt to provide 33% reservation for women through another Constitutional Amendment. Persons with disabilities at times really feel let down in the present political climate where every community with a sizeable Vote-bank and social capital is frequently showered with all policy concessions, whereas, persons with disabilities, who are a scattered minority at best (with very little advantage for commanding vote-bank manoeuvring in a given place), are never taken seriously by our majoritarian democracy. Consequently, the real concerns of this genuinely deprived community hardly get any attention, whatsoever. The depiction briefly outlined above may give you an impression that the signatories of this letter are unaware of the recent initiatives being undertaken by the Governments in favour of persons with disabilities, which we wish to clarify in unequivocal terms in the following lines with as much precision as possible: The socio-economic deprivation of persons with disabilities and a well-found recognition that this deprivation is due largely to lack of constitutional safeguards is neither entirely new nor has been hidden from the ruling
[AI] sign my pittition please
Hello! I've started the petition To His Excellency President of India: first read my petition If you feel it is genuine Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link: if you already sign please ignore this message. I request the moderator to excuse me for re posting this. at least 100 members has to sign on it. only 17 members or signed. http://www.change.org/petitions/to-his-excellency-president-of-indiaenter-advise-the-union-government-and-the-indian-parliament Here's why it's important: To His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee Hon'ble President of India Ref: 135/dwab/2012 Dated: 4th November 2012 Respected Sir, Sub: Right to equality for persons with disabilities - a proposal for constitutional Recognition - a humble submission for expeditious action-regarding: We, on behalf of the Development and Welfare Association of the Blind (Andhra Pradesh), in consultation with several other organisations and like-minded individuals, hereby submit the following few lines for your kind enough consideration and request you with humility to do the needful in the direction of providing constitutional remedy to the historic injustice inflicted upon the citizens with disabilities in our land of rich heritage and culture of co-existence: As his Excellency might be fully aware, nearly Three Crore Indians - 3% of our population - are officially counted as people suffering from various disabilities, visual-impairment, hearing-impairment and other locomotor disabilities in particular. Ironically enough, a large proportion of this population suffers gross negligence in the hands of our public institutions. It is now estimated that nearly Fifteen Million visually-impaired and around Sixty-four Million other disabled have been subjected to the cruelties of daily life, and almost all of them are living without basic amenities such as food, decent clothing, a shelter of their own and minimum education. At a time our policy echelons are busy ensuring human rights for other marginalised groups, SCs, STs and Women, here are the minuscule minority who live away in a shear silence a life that falls below the standards any civilisation can ever think of. We hope his Excellency would agree with us in a candid admission that the socio-economic backwardness of persons with disabilities in our country stems from nowhere but our own constitution that fails to make any meaningful provision for the rights of this scattered community. While Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution took extra-care to ensure the right of equality for all citizens in India, with enough safeguards for such marginalised sections as SCs, STs and OBCs through affirmative policy in education and employment, persons with disabilities have been conveniently forsaken in this thwarted war of vote-bank politics. Look at, for example, the speed with which Governments in the recent past have moved swiftly and brought about 27% reservation for OBCs in education and employment through the constitutional Amendment, and the same swiftness that can be seen in the present regime's attempt to provide 33% reservation for women through another Constitutional Amendment. Persons wi th disabilities at times really feel let down in the present political climate where every community with a sizeable Vote-bank and social capital is frequently showered with all policy concessions, whereas, persons with disabilities, who are a scattered minority at best (with very little advantage for commanding vote-bank manoeuvring in a given place), are never taken seriously by our majoritarian democracy. Consequently, the real concerns of this genuinely deprived community hardly get any attention, whatsoever. The depiction briefly outlined above may give you an impression that the signatories of this letter are unaware of the recent initiatives being undertaken by the Governments in favour of persons with disabilities, which we wish to clarify in unequivocal terms in the following lines with as much precision as possible: The socio-economic deprivation of persons with disabilities and a well-found recognition that this deprivation is due largely to lack of constitutional safeguards is neither entirely new nor has been hidden from the ruling regimes of post-independent India. The Government of India under the leadership of Sri Rajiv Gandhi set up a committee to consider legislation for the physically challenged. Headed by Shri Baharul Islam, a distinguished parliamentarian at that time, the Committee was asked inter alia to work out the scope, objectives and general scheme of legislation for persons with disabilities covering various aspects of prevention, rehabilitation, social security and welfare of this section of society. Baharul Islam Committee submitted its report to the Government in June, 1988, with a prime recommendation, among other things, that Articles 14, 15, 16 and 46 of the
Re: [AI] A petition to Google on accessibility from the visually-challenged community
he did a good job. could you please send me the link. - Original Message - From: David Richards drvvrj...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 11:12 PM Subject: [AI] A petition to Google on accessibility from the visually-challenged community Dear all Access Indians, Software giant Google has been petitioned by J.P. Shandra, a blind user, to make each of its products accessible for people with visual disabilities. The petition, posted on global consumer campaigning site Change.org, identifies that the company is failing to keep up with its competitors on accessibility. While Google has made significant steps towards improving the accessibility of some of its applications, including Gmail and Chrome, Shandra says Google fails to integrate the needs of vision-impaired users into its product development. Shandra identifies the social network Google+ as an example of a product which has been released to the public with inaccessible buttons and form fields. Vision-impaired community is tired of hearing accessibility features are coming in updates. They must be there from the very beginning. Stop treating your vision-impaired customers as second-class citizens, said Shandra in the petition's description. Moreover, stop treating them like they don't exist at all. We have the right to live a productive life like everyone else, Shandra asserted. Conversely, Apple incorporates the accessibility into the development of its devices and software, making its products the first choice of the most blind and vision-impaired users the world-over. Apple designs their products with accessibility in mind right from the start. Even if the execution isn't perfect, the intention was clearly there, Shandra remarked. According to the World Health Organization, there are 285 million blind/vision-impaired people worldwide. This represents a significant market which Google is failing to reach. At the time of writing the petition on Wednesday, 22 May 2013, it had 125 signatures backing Shandra's representation, but many more are needed to exert pressure on Google to change its policies. If so many of us want to prove ourselves as champions for the cause of accessibility, let's not hesitate to carry the torch for our rights of accessibility and back Shandra by signing the petition to Google. Warm regards. David Richards. Sent from my Nokia phone 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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.. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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..
Re: [AI] help regarding hellen keller
dear sir: this is the history of helen keller. The life of Helen Keller Summary: About the life of Helen Keller, the deafblind woman who became a role model for millions of people Helen Adams Keller was born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, a small rural town in Northwest Alabama, USA. The daughter of Captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller she was born with full sight and hearing. Kate Keller was a tall, statuesque blond with blue eyes. She was some twenty years younger than her husband Captain Keller, a loyal southerner who had proudly served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The house they lived in was a simple, white, clapboard house built in 1820 by Helen's grandparents. At the time of Helen's birth the family were far from wealthy with Captain Keller earning a living as both a cotton plantation owner and the editor of a weekly local newspaper, the North Alabamian. Helen's mother, as well as working on the plantation, would save money by making her own butter, lard, bacon and ham. Helen falls ill But Helen's life was to change dramatically. In February 1882, when Helen was nineteen months old, she fell ill. To this day the nature of her ailment remains a mystery. The doctors of the time called it brain fever, whilst modern day doctors think it may have been scarlet fever or meningitis. Whatever the illness, Helen was, for many days, expected to die. When, eventually, the fever subsided, Helen's family rejoiced believing their daughter to be well again. However, Helen's mother soon noticed how her daughter was failing to respond when the dinner bell was rang or when she passed her hand in front of her daughter's eyes. It thus became apparent that Helen's illness had left her both blind and deaf. The following few years proved very hard for Helen and her family. Helen became a very difficult child, smashing dishes and lamps and terrorising the whole household with her screaming and temper tantrums. Relatives regarded her as a monster and thought she should be put into an institution. By the time Helen was six her family had become desperate. Looking after Helen was proving too much for them. Kate Keller had read in Charles Dickens' book American Notes of the fantastic work that had been done with another deaf and blind child, Laura Bridgman, and travelled to a specialist doctor in Baltimore for advice. They were given confirmation that Helen would never see or hear again but were told not to give up hope, the doctor believed Helen could be taught and he advised them to visit a local expert on the problems of deaf children. This expert was Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, Bell was now concentrating on what he considered his true vocation, the teaching of deaf children. Alexander Graham Bell suggested that the Kellers write to Michael Anagnos, director of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, and request that he try and find a teacher for Helen. Michael Anagnos considered Helen's case and immediately recommended a former pupil of the institution, that woman was Anne Sullivan. Anne Sullivan Anne Sullivan had lost the majority of her sight at the age of five. By the age of ten, her mother had died and her father deserted her. She and her brother Jimmie were sent to the poorhouse in February 1876. Anne's brother died in the poorhouse. It was October 1880 before Anne finally left and went to commence her education at the Perkins Institution. One summer during her time at the institute, Anne had two operations on her eyes, which led to her regaining enough sight to be able to read normal print for short periods of time. Anne graduated from Perkins in 1886 and began to search for work. Finding work was terribly difficult for Anne, due to her poor eyesight, and when she received the offer from Michael Anagnos to work as the teacher of Helen Keller, a deaf-blind mute, although she had no experience in this area, she accepted willingly. Helen meets Anne On 3 March 1887 Anne arrived at the house in Tuscumbia and for the first time met Helen Keller. Anne immediately started teaching Helen to finger spell. Spelling out the word Doll to signify a present she had brought with her for Helen. The next word she taught Helen was Cake. Although Helen could repeat these finger movements she could not quite understand what they meant. And while Anne was struggling trying to help her understand, she was also struggling to try and control Helen's continuing bad behaviour. Anne and Helen moved into a small cottage on the land of the main house to try and get Helen to improve her behaviour. Of particular concern were Helen's table manners. She had taken to eating with her hands and from the plates of everyone at the table. Anne's attempts to improve Helen's table
[AI] Hello! Sign my petition please
Hello! I've started the petition To His Excellency President of IndiaEnter : Will you take 30 seconds to sign it right now? Here's the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/to-his-excellency-president-of-indiaenter-advise-the-union-government-and-the-indian-parliament Here's why it's important: To His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee Hon'ble President of India Ref: 135/dwab/2012 Dated: 4th November 2012 Respected Sir, Sub: Right to equality for persons with disabilities - a proposal for constitutional Recognition - a humble submission for expeditious action-regarding: We, on behalf of the Development and Welfare Association of the Blind (Andhra Pradesh), in consultation with several other organisations and like-minded individuals, hereby submit the following few lines for your kind enough consideration and request you with humility to do the needful in the direction of providing constitutional remedy to the historic injustice inflicted upon the citizens with disabilities in our land of rich heritage and culture of co-existence: As his Excellency might be fully aware, nearly Three Crore Indians - 3% of our population - are officially counted as people suffering from various disabilities, visual-impairment, hearing-impairment and other locomotor disabilities in particular. Ironically enough, a large proportion of this population suffers gross negligence in the hands of our public institutions. It is now estimated that nearly Fifteen Million visually-impaired and around Sixty-four Million other disabled have been subjected to the cruelties of daily life, and almost all of them are living without basic amenities such as food, decent clothing, a shelter of their own and minimum education. At a time our policy echelons are busy ensuring human rights for other marginalised groups, SCs, STs and Women, here are the minuscule minority who live away in a shear silence a life that falls below the standards any civilisation can ever think of. We hope his Excellency would agree with us in a candid admission that the socio-economic backwardness of persons with disabilities in our country stems from nowhere but our own constitution that fails to make any meaningful provision for the rights of this scattered community. While Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution took extra-care to ensure the right of equality for all citizens in India, with enough safeguards for such marginalised sections as SCs, STs and OBCs through affirmative policy in education and employment, persons with disabilities have been conveniently forsaken in this thwarted war of vote-bank politics. Look at, for example, the speed with which Governments in the recent past have moved swiftly and brought about 27% reservation for OBCs in education and employment through the constitutional Amendment, and the same swiftness that can be seen in the present regime's attempt to provide 33% reservation for women through another Constitutional Amendment. Persons wi th disabilities at times really feel let down in the present political climate where every community with a sizeable Vote-bank and social capital is frequently showered with all policy concessions, whereas, persons with disabilities, who are a scattered minority at best (with very little advantage for commanding vote-bank manoeuvring in a given place), are never taken seriously by our majoritarian democracy. Consequently, the real concerns of this genuinely deprived community hardly get any attention, whatsoever. The depiction briefly outlined above may give you an impression that the signatories of this letter are unaware of the recent initiatives being undertaken by the Governments in favour of persons with disabilities, which we wish to clarify in unequivocal terms in the following lines with as much precision as possible: The socio-economic deprivation of persons with disabilities and a well-found recognition that this deprivation is due largely to lack of constitutional safeguards is neither entirely new nor has been hidden from the ruling regimes of post-independent India. The Government of India under the leadership of Sri Rajiv Gandhi set up a committee to consider legislation for the physically challenged. Headed by Shri Baharul Islam, a distinguished parliamentarian at that time, the Committee was asked inter alia to work out the scope, objectives and general scheme of legislation for persons with disabilities covering various aspects of prevention, rehabilitation, social security and welfare of this section of society. Baharul Islam Committee submitted its report to the Government in June, 1988, with a prime recommendation, among other things, that Articles 14, 15, 16 and 46 of the Constitution be amended to include the words persons with disabilities and mentally-handicapped so as to provide constitutional recognition to the special circumstances under which the communities these underlying words invariably
Re: [AI] KNEWS FOR CENTRAL GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES
Dear Sir: could you please upload the relevant circular regarding Special Disability Leave k. srinivas. srinivas.carn...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: Shiva Prakash M A mashivapraka...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 7:26 PM Subject: [AI] KNEWS FOR CENTRAL GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES Dear Friends, kindly use this services CONCESSIONS TO PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES – A SUM UP Physically Challenged central Government employees and Disabled Central Government Employees are provided with various concessions in the form of additional Allowance, leave, reduced rate interest, out of turn allotment etc. Those concessions are listed as follows. Readers are requested to write about additional concessions if any as comments to this article 1. Special Disability Leave 2. Ad Hoc allotment of quarter to Handicapped employee 3. Ad Hoc allotment of quarter to Handicapped employee 4. Reservation for Person with Disabilities 5. Age Relaxation, Fee Concession, and exemption from Typing Test while joining Central Government Service 6. Transport Allowance at double the rates 7. Income Tax Exemption for Physically Challenged and disabled Salaried Class Employees 8. Special Allowance for child care for women with disabilities and Education Allowance for disabled children of Govt. employees 9. Grant of Children Education Allowance at higher Rates 10. LTC facility for an escort accompanying single handicapped Government servant 11. Employees can use own / hired Car for LTC if employee or family member is Physically Challenged and disabled 1. SPECIAL DISABILITY LEAVE Admissible to all employees- When disabled by injury intentionally or accidentally inflicted or caused in, or in consequence of the due performance of official duties or in consequence of official position. When disabled by illness incurred in in the performance of any particular duty, which has the effect of increasing liabilities to illness of injury beyond the ordinary risk attaching to the civil post held under the same condition. The disability should have manifested within three months of the occurrence to which it is attribute and the person disabled had acted with due promptitude in bringing it to notice. The leave sanctioning authority, if satisfied as to the cause of the disability, may relax the condition and grant leave in case where disability has manifested more than three months after the occurrence of its cause. The disability should be certified by an Authorized Medical Attendant to be directly due to the particular duty. If it has been contracted during service other than with a military force, the leave sanctioning authority should be satisfied that the disability is exceptional in character. The period of leave will be as certified by an Authorized Medical Attendant subject to a maximum of 24 month. It may be granted more than once if the disability is aggravated or recurs in similar circumstances at a later date, but the maximum leave in consequences of any one disability should not exceed 24 months. It may be combined with any other kind of leave. It willas service for pension. It will not be debited to the leave account. The leave salary for the first 120 days will be the pay last drawn and for the remaining period, it will be equal to leave salary during half pay leave, in such cases, beyond the first 120 days the official may take half leave (at his credit) for another 120 days along with the special disability leave simultaneously and get leave salary equal to that on eared leave. The half pay leave so taken will be debited to his leave account. If the official is entitled to any benefit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act the Employee’s state Insurance Act. The amount of leave salary will be reduced by the amount of benefit payable under the above Acts. Appointing authors are competent to sanction Special Disability Leave-Rule 44 and 45. 2. SPECIAL CASUAL LEAVE Special Casual leave not more than 10 days in a calendar year may be granted to attend Conferences/ Seminars/ Training/ Workshop related to Disability and devolvement– related programmers organized at national and State Level agencies, Absence in excess of 10 days may be treated as regular leave due and admissible and it can also combined with regular leave –On dated 14-11-2007. 3. AD HOC ALLOTMENT OF QUARTER TO HANDICAPPED EMPLOYEE Ad hoc allotment of quarter to handicapped employees will be considered in the following cases:- - The blind i,.e those who suffer form either of – (a) Total absence of sight. (b) Visual Acuity not exceeding 6/90 or 20/200(snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses. (c) Impression of the field of the vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse. - The deaf, having hearing loss of more than 90 decibels in the better ear (profoundimpairment)or total loss of hearing in both ears. - The orthopedicallly handicapped to the
[AI] SPECIAL DISABILITY LEAVE
Dear friends: greetings of the day. Friends I have come to know that the Physically Challenged central Government employees have a provision of SPECIAL DISABILITY LEAVE for a period of not more then 2 years with full pay is it true? if so could anybody upload the relevant order? Looking forward to a timely and positive response. Thanking you in anticipation. k. srinivas srinivas.carn...@gmail.com mob: 09490589531/ 07386934647 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] Fw: Harish Chandra
Dear friends: am forwarding herewith an e-mail received from a friend. If any of you could help him with regard to the information sought for by him, please do that. With regards from k. srinivas. - Original Message - From: A. KUMARESAN To: nprd...@gmail.com ; sm.basha...@gmail.com ; tks7...@gmail.com ; gandhimoh...@gmail.com ; ghemago...@gmail.com ; hema_balra...@rediffmail.com ; bala19...@yahoo.com ; sudha.k...@gmail.com ; gandhimath...@gmail.com ; rod_patric...@hotmail.com ; kodakka...@rediffmail.com ; aknair...@yahoo.co.uk ; viklangsangh@gmail.com ; gmukesh...@yahoo.co.in ; dwab_...@yahoo.com ; srinivas.carn...@gmail.com ; bapuraok...@gmail.com ; hbasavaraj1...@yahoo.co.in ; madhumitap...@gmail.com ; lvijayvarg...@yahoo.co.in ; kanchanpamn...@gmail.com ; javed_ab...@ncpedp.org ; nileshsin...@yahoo.co.uk ; nabadvoc...@yahoo.in Cc: hcj...@sify.com ; hc_jaisw...@yahoo.co.in Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 12:43 AM Subject: Harish Chandra Sir/Madam, I am forwarding herewith an e-mail received from a friend. If any of you could help him with regard to the information sought for by him, please do that. With regards from A. KUMARESAN --- On Thu, 11/4/13, hcjrmm . hcj...@sify.com wrote: From: hcjrmm . hcj...@sify.com Subject: To: a_kumares...@yahoo.co.in Date: Thursday, 11 April, 2013, 12:58 PM Dear Kumaresan, I am Harish Chandra, working as Chief Project Manager in IndianOlil Corporation Limited, and become hearing impaired in 2003 probably due to excessive stress because of discriminatory approach of Indian Oil Management. After CCPD decision(2011) in favour of IOCL expressing their inability to interfere in rules regulation of IOCL which are contradictory to PWD act 1995 and various circular/ OMs Issued by Govt. of India,I approached to Delhi High Court Through W.P.(C) 6528/ 2012 . I am interested to know the detail status of the attached case of Bombay High court its final documented outcome . If you have any other case judgment which are not available in High court /Supreme Court site, Kindly forward the same also which might help me. Regards, Harish Chandra Mob. 9873189950 Alternate e.mail : hc_jaisw...@yahoo.co.in Chief Project Manager, Indian Oil Corporation Limited IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPEALLATE JURISDICTIONWRIT PETITION NO. 3294 OF 2010table end Mrs. Nilima Anant Surve. ..Petitioner. Vs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents. WITH WRIT PETITION NO.7824 OF 2007Mrs. Nandita Dubey/Tripathi. ..Petitioner. Vs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents.WITHPUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 70 OF 2002ILS Legal and Centre and ors. ..Petitioner.Vs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents.WITHPUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.75 OF 2006Satyashodh and others. ..Petitioner.Vs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents.WITHPUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.129 OF 2003The National Federation of BlindMaharashtra. ..Petitioner.Vs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents. ASN 2 WP-3494andors..sxwWITHCIVIL APPLICATION NO.50 OF 2007INPUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.129 OF 2003 The National Federation of Blind, Maharashtra. ..Petitioner.Vs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents.WITHPUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.139 OF 2006Maharashtra Rajya Apang KarmachariSanghatana. ..Petitioner.Vs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents.WITHCIVIL APPLICATION NO. 54 OF 2007INPUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.139 OF 2006Sudhakar Ramchandra Karegaonkar and ors. ..PetitionersVs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents.WITHPUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.225 OF 2009Harshad Govind Jadhav and ors. ..Petitioners.Vs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents.WITH PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.44 OF 2009ASN 3 WP-3494andors..sxwIndia Centre for Human Right and Lawand ors. ..Petitioners.Vs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents.WITHPUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.118 OF 2010Rashtriya Apang Vikas Mahasangh. ..Petitioners.Vs.The State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents.Mr.Chetan Agarwal, Advocate for the petitioner in Writ Petition No.3294 of 2010.Mr.Ravi Kadam, Advocate General along with Mr. N.P.Deshpande,A.G.P.for Respondent Nos. 1 to 3. Mr. Rahul Walvekar for Resondent No.5.Mr.A.A.Inamdar i/by M.S.Karnik for Respondent No.3 in Writ Petition No.7824of 2007.Mr. Uday Warunjikar for the petitioner in PIL No.75/2006 with PIL No.129/2003. Ms. Kanchan Pamnani for Respondent No.5. Mrs. Gayatri Singh along withKranti L.C. for the petitioner in Original Side PIL No.118/2010. Mr. Rungta, Advocate for Nilima Surve present. Mr. Satish Gavai, Princiapl Secretary, Social Justice Department present. Mr.J.N.Rathod, Dy. Secretary, Social Justice Department present Mr. B.R.Jadhav,
[AI] Fw: PIL 303 of 390 of 2012
- Original Message - From: visually challenged employees association To: Srinivas Karnati Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:53 AM Subject: Fwd: PIL 303 of 390 of 2012 Judgement in PIL 303/2012 as published in the net Posted: 08 Mar 2013 10:55 PM PST THE HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SRI PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR PIL Nos. 303 390 of 2012 DATED: 05.03.2013 PIL No. 303 of 2012 Between: The Differently Abled Employees Welfare Association, A.P., Canaranagar, Uppal, Ranga Reddy district, rep. by its President Sri K. Amrutha Reddy … Petitioner And The Government of Andhra Pradesh, rep. by its Chief Secretary to Government, Secretariat, Hyderabad Others. … Respondents PIL Nos. 303 390 of 2012 COMMON ORDER:(per the Hon’ble the Chief Justice Sri Pinaki Chandra Ghose) The first public interest litigation is filed questioning the action of the respondents in not extending the benefits of reservation to physically disabled persons by implementing the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (for short ‘the Act’), with effect from 07.02.1996 as illegal, arbitrary and for consequential directions to the respondents-authorities. 2. The second public interest litigation is filed seeking a direction to the respondents-authorities to declare and publish the limitation period and validity of reservation for physically handicapped persons ‘OBC status and non-creamy layer status certificate’ and direct the respondents to consider the physically handicapped persons ‘OBC status and non-creamy layer status’ certificate within three years. 3. As the matter and the issues involved in these two matters are similar, they are disposed of by this common order. 4. Heard the learned counsel appearing for the parties and perused the material on record. 5. The learned counsel appearing for the Respondents– authorities stated that they are agreed to give effect to the Act itself, as per which the disabled persons can get their remedies in the matter in question with regard to the service, employment etc. Therefore, no further orders are required to be passed in these matters. 6. In view of the above said submission and assurance made on behalf of the respondents-authorities to implement the Act itself properly, we only direct the respondents-authorities to consider the case of the petitioners in the light of the provisions of the Act and shall pass a reasoned order in the matter within a period of four weeks from today, after taking into consideration the Notification, which was issued to give effect to the Act. 7. Accordingly, both the PILs are disposed of with the above directions. As a sequel, the miscellaneous petitions, if any, shall stand disposed of accordingly. No costs. 05.03.2013 PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE, CJ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J You are subscribed to email updates from Andhra Pradesh Employees with Disabilities To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] Negative judgement by a CAT on the issue of reservation in promotion to disabled employees
Dear accessindian friends: good afternoon to all of you. Kindly go through the negative judgement on the subject forwarded by a well wisher of the disabled. I request you to highlight the issue where ever possible and to see that justice is done to disabled. With regards, karnati srinivas Email: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com vs - on 5 September, 2011 Principal Bench OA No.3254/2010 New Delhi this the 05th day of September, 2011. Honble Mr. M.L. Chauhan, Member (J) Honble Mrs. Manjulika Gautam, Member (A) 1. Rajeev C. Mathur, working as Income Tax Officer, Ward 20 (2)(4) Mumbai, R/o Wing B Flat No.602, Shiv Om Apartments, Adjacent to Chandivali Film Studio, Powai, Mumbai-400072. 2. Virbhadra S. Mahajan, Working as Income Tax Officer, CIB Mumbai, R/o Flat No.304/A, Bhairavi, Doordarshan Employees, Cooperative Housing Society Ltd., Gokuldham, Goregon (E), Mumbai. -Applicants (By Advocates Shri Vikrant Yadav) -Versus- 1. Union of India through theSecretary, Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue, Central Board of Direct Taxes, North Blcok, New Delhi. 2. The Secretary, Ministry of Personnel amp; Training, Shastri Bhavan, North Block, New Delhi-110001. 3. Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Ayakar Bhavan, New Marine Lines, Mumbai-400020. 4. Dr. K. Shyam Prasad, Dy. Commissioner of Income Tax (HQ) Administration Mumbai, Office of the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, 3rd Floor Ayakar Bhavan, Maharshi Karve Road, Mumbai-400020. 5. Mr. K.J. Verma, Director (Reservations), DOPT, North Block, New Delhi. 6. Director (A.D. VI), C.B.D.T, North Block, New Delhi. -Respondents (By Advocate Shri V.P. Uppal) O R D E R Mr. M.L. Chauhan, Member (J): Applicants have filed this OA, thereby praying for the following reliefs: i) This Honble Tribunal may graciously be pleased to quash and set aside the impugned orders dated 16.08.2010. ii) This Honble Tribunal further be pleased to direct the respondents to apply the policy of reservation of 3% vacancies for physically handicapped for promotion in Group B and Group A services during the period 1998 to 2005. iii) This Honble Tribunal may further be pleased to direct the respondents to reserve 3% vacancies filled up by promotion in Group B and Group A posts, during the period 1998 to 2005 and thereafter grant the applicants the benefit of the said Reservation by anti-dating their promotions to Group B Service and granting them promotion to Group A service, as per their turn, with all consequential benefits. iv) Cost of this Original Application be provided for. v) Any other relief/rules may be granted to the applicant which deemed to be proper and reasonable in the eye in law. 2. As can be seen from the relief clause, grievance of the applicants is that reservation of 3% vacancies for physically handicapped (PH) persons in Group B and A services should also be made applicable in the case of promotion. The relief is being sought on the basis of the judgment rendered by the Principal Bench of this Tribunal in the case of Smt. Dropadi Seth v. Union of India amp; Others [OA No.1952/2003, decided on 17.12.2003] and the judgment of the High Court of Delhi in Writ Petition (C) No.11818 and 13627-2004 in the case of Union of India through G.M. Northern Railway and Chairman Railway Board v. Jagmohan, decided on 07.12.2007 (Annexures A-13 and A-14 respectively). 3. During the course of arguments learned counsel of applicants has also placed reliance upon two judgments of the Apex Court in the case of National Federation of Blind v. Union Public Service Commission and others, (1993) 2 SCC 411 and Amita v. Union of India and another, (2005) 13 SCC 721. We fail to understand how applicants can draw assistance from these judgments. In the case of National Federation of Blind (supra) the Apex Court has directed the Union of India and Union Public Service Commission to permit the visually handicapped (blind and partially blind) eligible candidates to compete for Indian Administrative Service and the Allied Services in Braille-script or with the help of scribe. Govt. of India also commended to decide the question of providing preference/reservation to the visually handicapped persons in Groups A and B posts in Govt. and Public Sector undertakings expeditiously. Similarly the issue involved in the case of Amita (supra) was to make adequate arrangement of a scribe for the petitioner during the entrance test for the post of Probationary Officer in Indian Overseas Bank. It was in the factual background that the observation was made by the Apex Court. Be that as it may, there is no dispute that the reservation in respect of physically disabled persons in direct recruitment is available to all categories, including Group B and A posts, whereas no such reservation has been made in promotion qua Group A and B posts. Thus, the judgments cited by the applicants do not deal with the
Re: [AI] query pertaining to income tax
Sir: there is no such exemption for the blind in our state. However O H are exempted from life tax. the blind are also demanding for the same. k. srinivas srinivas.carn...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: srikanth bolla presidentsrika...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [AI] query pertaining to income tax Hi Srinivas, Can you please provide tax exemptions for visually challenged people in India? Can blind people get tax reductions in the purchase of motor vehicles? Regards, -Original Message- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of srinivas.karnati Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 11:20 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] quiry pertaining to income tax dear sir: I am pasting below the section 80DD for your information. please read and go through it. treatment of a dependent who is a person with disability (section 80DD): Under section 80DD, where an employee, who is a resident in India, has, during the previous year- (a) incurred any expenditure for the medical treatment (including nursing), training and rehabilitation of a dependant, being a person with disability; or (b) paid or deposited any amount under a scheme framed in this behalf by the Life Insurance Corporation or any other insurer or the Administrator or the specified company subject to the conditions specified in this regard and approved by the Board in this behalf for the maintenance of a dependant, being a person with disability, the employee shall be allowed a deduction of a sum of fifty thousand rupees from his gross total income of that year. However, where such dependant is a person with severe disability, an amount of one hundred thousand rupees shall be allowed as deduction subject to the specified conditions. The deduction under (b) above shall be allowed only if the following conditions are fulfilled:- (i) the scheme referred to in (b) above provides for payment of annuity or lump sum amount for the benefit of a dependant, being a person with disability, in the event of the death of the individual in whose name subscription to the scheme has been made; (ii) the employee nominates either the dependant, being a person with disability, or any other person or a trust to receive the payment on his behalf, for the benefit of the dependant, being a person with disability. However, if the dependant, being a person with disability, predeceases the employee, an amount equal to the amount paid or deposited under sub-para (b) above shall be deemed to be the income of the employee of the previous year in which such amount is received by the employee and shall accordingly be chargeable to tax as the income of that previous year. 5.5.7.2 Deductions in respect of a person with disability (section 80U): Under section 80U, in computing the total income of an individual, being a resident, who, at any time during the previous year, is certified by the medical authority to be a person with disability, there shall be allowed a deduction of a sum of fifty thousand rupees. However, where such individual is a person with severe disability, a higher deduction of one lakh rupees shall be allowable. DDOs should note that section 80DD deduction is in case of the dependent of the employee whereas section 80U deduction is in case of the employee himself. However under both the Sections the employee shall furnish to the DDO following: 1. A copy of the certificate issued by the medical authority as defined in Rule 11A(1) in the prescribed form as per Rule 11A(2) of the Rules. The DDO has to allow deduction only after seeing that the Certificate furnished is from the Medical Authority defined in this Rule and the same is in the form as mentioned therein. 2. Further In cases where the condition of disability is temporary and requires reassessment of its extent after a period stipulated in the aforesaid certificate, no deduction under this section shall be allowed for any subsequent period unless a new certificate is obtained from the medical authority as in 1 above and furnished before the DDO. 3. For the purposes of section 80DD and 80 U some of the terms defined are as under:- (a) Administrator means the Administrator as referred to in clause (a) of section 2 of the Unit Trust of India (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act, 2002 (58 of 2002) ; (b) dependant means- (i) in the case of an individual, the spouse, children, parents, brothers and sisters of the individual or any of them; (ii) in the case of a Hindu undivided family, a member of the Hindu undivided family, dependant wholly or mainly on such individual or Hindu undivided family for his support and maintenance, and who has not claimed any deduction under section 80U in computing his total income for the assessment year relating to the previous year; (c) disability shall have the meaning assigned
Re: [AI] quiry pertaining to income tax
dear sir: I am pasting below the section 80DD for your information. please read and go through it. treatment of a dependent who is a person with disability (section 80DD): Under section 80DD, where an employee, who is a resident in India, has, during the previous year- (a) incurred any expenditure for the medical treatment (including nursing), training and rehabilitation of a dependant, being a person with disability; or (b) paid or deposited any amount under a scheme framed in this behalf by the Life Insurance Corporation or any other insurer or the Administrator or the specified company subject to the conditions specified in this regard and approved by the Board in this behalf for the maintenance of a dependant, being a person with disability, the employee shall be allowed a deduction of a sum of fifty thousand rupees from his gross total income of that year. However, where such dependant is a person with severe disability, an amount of one hundred thousand rupees shall be allowed as deduction subject to the specified conditions. The deduction under (b) above shall be allowed only if the following conditions are fulfilled:- (i) the scheme referred to in (b) above provides for payment of annuity or lump sum amount for the benefit of a dependant, being a person with disability, in the event of the death of the individual in whose name subscription to the scheme has been made; (ii) the employee nominates either the dependant, being a person with disability, or any other person or a trust to receive the payment on his behalf, for the benefit of the dependant, being a person with disability. However, if the dependant, being a person with disability, predeceases the employee, an amount equal to the amount paid or deposited under sub-para (b) above shall be deemed to be the income of the employee of the previous year in which such amount is received by the employee and shall accordingly be chargeable to tax as the income of that previous year. 5.5.7.2 Deductions in respect of a person with disability (section 80U): Under section 80U, in computing the total income of an individual, being a resident, who, at any time during the previous year, is certified by the medical authority to be a person with disability, there shall be allowed a deduction of a sum of fifty thousand rupees. However, where such individual is a person with severe disability, a higher deduction of one lakh rupees shall be allowable. DDOs should note that section 80DD deduction is in case of the dependent of the employee whereas section 80U deduction is in case of the employee himself. However under both the Sections the employee shall furnish to the DDO following: 1. A copy of the certificate issued by the medical authority as defined in Rule 11A(1) in the prescribed form as per Rule 11A(2) of the Rules. The DDO has to allow deduction only after seeing that the Certificate furnished is from the Medical Authority defined in this Rule and the same is in the form as mentioned therein. 2. Further In cases where the condition of disability is temporary and requires reassessment of its extent after a period stipulated in the aforesaid certificate, no deduction under this section shall be allowed for any subsequent period unless a new certificate is obtained from the medical authority as in 1 above and furnished before the DDO. 3. For the purposes of section 80DD and 80 U some of the terms defined are as under:- (a) Administrator means the Administrator as referred to in clause (a) of section 2 of the Unit Trust of India (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act, 2002 (58 of 2002) ; (b) dependant means- (i) in the case of an individual, the spouse, children, parents, brothers and sisters of the individual or any of them; (ii) in the case of a Hindu undivided family, a member of the Hindu undivided family, dependant wholly or mainly on such individual or Hindu undivided family for his support and maintenance, and who has not claimed any deduction under section 80U in computing his total income for the assessment year relating to the previous year; (c) disability shall have the meaning assigned to it in clause (i) of section 2 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996) and includes autism, cerebral palsy and multiple disability referred to in clauses (a), (c) and (h) of section 2 of the National Trust for Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999 (44 of 1999); (d) Life Insurance Corporation shall have the same meaning as in clause (iii) of sub-section (8) of section 88; (e) medical authority means the medical authority as referred to in clause (p) of section 2 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996) or such other medical authority as may,
[AI] Intensive Training Course For Visually Impaired Women by AICB
Intensive Training Course For Visually Impaired Women: Dear access Indian friend's good evening to all of you. I am pleased to inform you that all India Confederation of the blind has been conducting Intensive training courses for the benefit of visually impaired girls for last several years. Majority of these courses have been sponsored by Marga Schulze Foundation, Germany. The Foundation is led by Dr. H.E. Schulze (himself blind), Former Judge of Federal Court of Germany. The participants are imparted intensive practical training and theoretical instruction in home management, basic stitching, mobility, computer applications, self-defence techniques and leadership skills. This year the course shall commence from 20th May for six weeks. Graduate and post graduate girls shall be given preference. Selected candidates shall get free board, lodging and training facilities. The best five participants shall also be provided Toshiba laptops with screen readers on behalf of Marga Schulze Foundation. The candidates shall also receive Rs. 800/- per month on account of pocket money. Those who are interested should contact AICB office or AICB website www.aicb.in and should download application form by clicking link 'upcoming events'. Their application forms duly filled and signed should reach AICB office latest by 31st March, 2013 along with bank draft of Rs. 500/- in the name of All India Confederation of the Blind. The amount shall be refunded to those participants who will not discontinue the training course. k. srinivas Email: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] Fw: Eligibility of disabled children for family pension after marriage -
dear friends: - Original Message - From: National Platform For The Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) To: undisclosed-recipients: Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 6:16 PM Subject: Eligibility of disabled children for family pension after marriage - For information Eligibility of disabled children for family pension after marriage - Eligibility for two family pensions clarification regarding No.1/33/2012-PPW(E) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, P.G. Pensions Department of Pension Pensioners’ Welfare 3rd Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan, Khan Market, New Delhi Dated: 16th January, 2013 Office Memorandum Sub: (i) Eligibility of disabled children for family pension after marriage and (ii) Eligibility for two family pensions clarification regarding. The undersigned is directed to state that the Government has decided to allow continuance of family pension to mentally / physically disabled children who drew, are drawing or may draw family pension even after their marriage. Further, the Government has also decided to allow two family pensions where the pensioner drew, is drawing or may draw two pensions for military and / or civil employments. 2. In order to implement these decisions, Explanations 1 and 3 after sub-rule 6 of Rule 54 of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 have been suitably amended and sub-rules 13-A and 13-B have been omitted. A copy of Gazette notification, G.S.R. No. 938 (E), dated 27th December, 2012, giving effect to these amendments is enclosed. 3. For the sake of clarity, the old and new explanations 1 and 3 are reproduced as under highlighting the changes made therein: Old : EXPLANATION 1 - An unmarried son or an unmarried or widowed or divorced daughter shall become ineligible for family pension under this sub-rule from the date he or she gets married or remarried. EXPLANATION 3 - It shall be the duty of son or daughter or siblings or the guardian to furnish a certificate to the Treasury or Bank, as the case may be, once in a year that (i) he or she has not started earning his or her livelihood and (ii) he or she has not yet married or remarried. A similar certificate shall be furnished by a childless widow after her re-marriage or parents to the Treasury or Bank, as the case may be, once in a year that she or he or they have not started earning her or his or their livelihood. New : EXPLANATION 1 - An unmarried son or an unmarried or widowed or divorced daughter except a disabled son or daughter, shall become ineligible for family pension under this sub-rule from the date he or she gets married or remarried. EXPLANATION 3 - It shall be the duty of son or daughter or siblings or the guardian to furnish a certificate to the Treasury or Bank, as the case may be, once in a year that (i) he or she has not started earning his or her livelihood and (ii) he or she has not yet married or remarried. A similar certificate shall he furnished by a childless widow after her re-marriage or b the disabled son or daughter or parents to the Treasury or Bank, as the case may be, once in a year that she or he or they have not started earning her or his or their livelihood. 4. Sub rule 13-A regulates the grant of family pension to a military pensioner after his re-employment in a civil service or a civil post. Grant of two family pensions had been prohibited under this sub rule. Similarly, sub rule 13-B prohibits grant of two family pensions to a person who is already in receipt of Family Pension or is eligible there for under any other rules of the Central Government or a State Government and/or Public Sector Undertaking/Autonomous Body/Local Fund under the Central or a State Government. The sub-rules 13-A and 13-B have since been omitted vide the above mentioned Gazette notification. 5. It is clarified that financial benefits in past cases will accrue with effect from 24th September, 2012. 6. As regards pensioners/family pensioners belonging to the Indian Audit and Accounts Departments, these Orders issue after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. sd/- (Sujasha Choudhury) Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] pre-budget discussion Suggestions For Financial Benefits For PWD
Dear Friends, As you must be aware that pre-budget consultations are taking place. The All India Confederation of the Blind has submitted the representation to the Ministry of Social Justice Empowerment in response to their call. Many of you sent some useful comments which have been included in the list suggestions. Copy of the suggestions forwarded to the Ministry is enclosed for your ready reference. With Kind Regards k. srinivas srinivas.carn...@gmail.com All India Confederation of the Blind Suggestions For Financial Benefits For Persons With Disabilities To Be Taken Up During Pre-Budget Consultation/Discussion 1. Benefits under Income Tax Act: 1.1 Introduction of a new Scheme of IT benefits in place of rebate under 80U of IT Act for in-service persons with disabilities: It is suggested that in place of the existing provision of rebate granted to persons with disabilities under Section 80U of the IT Act, a new regime may be put in place or for persons with disabilities, while they are in service. Thus, under this suggested arrangement, persons with disabilities, while in-service, may be granted 50% exemption in Income Tax at all slabs. The existing benefit of granting rebate may be done away with. Thus, persons with disabilities may be required to pay Income Tax at all slabs at the following rates: ·5% for income upto Rs. 5,00,000/- (instead of the prevailing 10%) ·10% for income upto Rs. 10,00,000/- (instead of the present 20%) and so on. This will be in line with the spirit of the proposed Direct Tax Code (DTC) which discourages across the board rebates in income tax. It also helps to mainstream persons with disabilities with regard to payment of taxes like others and at the same time, provides them necessary benefits also. 1.2 Exemption from Income Tax for senior citizens with disabilities: It is proposed that income from pensions for senior citizens with disabilities (above 60 years of age) may be made fully exempt from income tax, as a measure of relief to the elderly disabled citizens. 1.3 Exempting the entire transport allowance from income tax: At present, persons with disabilities in service are given exemption from income tax only on the initial transport allowance allowed to other employees as well. They do not get the benefit of such exemption for the double transport allowance granted to them by the 6th CPC on account of their disability. It is, therefore, suggested that the entire amount of transport allowance paid to an employee with disability may be made exempt from income tax. 2. Transport allowance granted to employees with disabilities by the 6th Pay Commission: 2.1 The 6th Pay Commission granted to persons with disabilities double transport allowance, meaning thereby that an employee with disability will draw transport allowance double than that of his non-disabled counterpart. In view of the steep increased in the transportation costs, during the last about 6 years, it is suggest that the rates of transport allowance per month for employees with disabilities may be increased by 100%. Thus, the rates may be as follows: Rs. 1600, Rs. 3200 and Rs. 6400. 2.2 Transport allowance may be made admissible to the Govt. pensioners with disabilities as well. They may be granted such allowance at the same rates as applicable to them at the time of their superannuation. This allowance is in keeping with the Government's policy of providing additional welfare measures for senior citizens with disabilities who have to face severe mobility problems and have to incur much greater expenses on transportation from place to place as also because of their increased dependence on others due to age. 2.3 Bank employees with disabilities may be allowed transport allowance and children's allowance at the same rates as applicable to their other counterparts with disabilities serving in Govt. departments/Ministries. At present such benefits are denied/restricted in quantum for such bank employees. 3. Customs related benefits: 3.1 Spare parts/accessories for items, goods, machinery and equipment listed under serial Nos. 388 and 488 of the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue Notification No. 12/2012-Customs dated 17th March, 2012, may also be made exempt from all customs and additional duties. This exemption assumes importance since a number of organizations have today with them costly equipment like high speed Braille embossers etc. imported from outside. However, such equipment tend to remain idle for long because of worn-out parts/accessories. At present, such spare parts/accessories attract heavy duty. It is suggested that, wherever applicable, items pertaining to spare parts/accessories of the equipment imported for persons with disabilities and covered in the said Notification, may also be treated as exempt from customs. 3.2
[AI] Fw: pre-budget discussion
dear friends: i am forwarding this mail with a request to send suggestions directly to AICB office. - Original Message - From: J L Kaul Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 2:39 AM Subject: Re: pre-budget discussion Dear Colleagues, New year greetings!! As you must be aware that pre-budget consultations are taking place. For using this opportunity gainfully, your viewpoints/suggestions with reference to various financial benefits etc. being provided to PwDs under Income Tax Act, Custom Excise concessions, Concessions/ Benefits given in 6th CPC like double Transport Allowance (in lieu of conveyance allowance, earlier), Education Allowance at double rates for disabled children and Child Care Allowance to women with disability (Central Govt. employees), etc. are requested by the department of disability affairs. In view of the above, you are requested to let us have your suggestions latest by 11th January so that well meaning draft could be prepared for submission to the department of disability affairs. This may please be given top priority. With Kind Regards J. L. Kaul Secretary General All India Confederation of the Blind Mob: 9810684208 website: http://www.aicb.in/ 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] Fw: Freedom Scientific Announces New Focus 80 Blue Braille Display
- Original Message - From: @ Freedom Scientific News To: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 2:46 PM Subject: Freedom Scientific Announces New Focus 80 Blue Braille Display Having trouble viewing this email? Click here to view as a webpage. Empowering Independence® FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Brad Davis 800-444-4443 or 727-803-8000 www.FreedomScientific.com Sales: i...@freedomscientific.com Freedom Scientific Announces New Focus 80 Blue Braille Display (St. Petersburg, Florida, January 4, 2013) - Freedom Scientific, the world leader in assistive technology for those that are low vision or blind, today announced another member in the popular Focus Blue family of refreshable Braille displays. The sleek new Focus 80 Blue is one third the volume and forty percent lighter than the previous Focus 80 display but packs even bigger features, including Bluetooth® and a highly refined keyboard design. Eighty Braille cells is long enough to give you an appreciation of the way a document is laid out, which can really help you produce a well-formatted document, says Jonathan Mosen, Freedom Scientific's Vice President of Blindness Hardware Product Management. It's also long enough to reflect the layout of your computer screen when you are working with database applications such as in a call center. This is a device any Braille reader will love to have on their desk. Focus 80 Blue features both Bluetooth and USB connectivity, and is fully compatible with JAWS® BrailleInT providing Contracted Braille input in many Windows applications. It is also compatible with the full range of iOS 6 devices, so you can access your iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch via Bluetooth. You have keyboard navigation throughout the Home screen and apps, and you can type and read in Contracted Braille or Computer Braille. Pricing and Availability The new Focus 80 Blue is priced at $7,795 with a two-year warranty and will be available in February. For full details of the entire Focus Blue family, including the Focus 40 Blue and the Focus 14 Blue, the perfect companion to mobile devices, visit the Focus Braille Displays product page. About Freedom Scientific Freedom Scientific is the leading worldwide provider of assistive technology products for those with vision impairments. The Company sells its products worldwide and has offices in Florida and Switzerland. The Company's products have been translated into 24 languages and are available in 55 countries. Freedom also has a line of software products for those with learning disabilities. Freedom Scientific®, JAWS®, BrailleInT are either trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Blindness Products | Low Vision Products | JAWS Home | Find a Dealer 11800 31st Court North, St. Petersburg, FL 33716-1805 | (800) 444-4443 | www.freedomscientific.com ©2012 Freedom Scientific, Inc. All rights reserved. Freedom Scientific adheres to a very strict privacy policy. We will never sell, share or rent your email address or other information. Visit us online to learn more about how we use your information. Forward email This email was sent to srinivas.carn...@gmail.com by freedomscientificn...@freedomscientific.com | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribeT | Privacy Policy. Freedom Scientific | 11800 31st Court North | Saint Petersburg | FL | 33716-1805 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] The Statesman: Teacher arrested for sexually harassing 12-year-old blind girl
this is very shame - Original Message - From: avinash shahi shahi88avin...@gmail.com To: jnuvision jnuvis...@yahoogroups.com; accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 8:06 AM Subject: [AI] The Statesman: Teacher arrested for sexually harassing 12-year-old blind girl 4 January 2013 http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=437869catid=36 Press Trust of India SALEM (TN), 4 JAN: A 50-year-old teacher has been arrested on charges of sexually harassing a 12-year-old visually challenged girl at a government school for the blind here, police said today. Police said Natarajan was arrested last night under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 which was invoked for the first time in the district. There are 79 visually challenged students, including 18 girls, studying in the school. The eighth standard girl had alleged that Natarajan, handling the carpentry class, had sexually harassed her. He is the only one who is not blind among seven teachers, police said, adding that he has been remanded in 15 days judicial custody. Natarajan, however, has denied the allegations, saying the other teachers had forced the girl to give a complaint against him as they were jealous of him. -- Avinash Shahi MPhil Research Scholar Centre for the Study of Law and Governance Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India Celebrating Louis Braille day! 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Celebrating Louis Braille day! 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] help me to know the buying of origenal Jaws.
sir could you please Contact For product information, request for catalogue, guidance and counseling, quotations, orders, any technical and after sales service support write to k...@vsnl.com For those calling within India, please dial: Phone: (022)-22181853 Fax: (022)-22153291 Mobile: (0)-9321539290 (0)-9867310297 For those calling internationally, please dial: Phone: +91-22-22181853 Fax: +91-22-22153291 Mobile: +91-9321539290 +91-9867310297 Email: k...@vsnl.com - Original Message - From: nitesh gupta nitesh...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 10:33 AM Subject: [AI] help me to know the buying of origenal Jaws. hello all. my office bearer is ready to forward the letter to bye original jaws. friends pl guide me the procedure to bye it. if possible then also give me the number along with the concern person to whom I have to talk. thanks in advance. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] Reservation for Persons with Disabilities
No.36035/6/2012-Estt.(Res.) Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Personnel and Training North Block, New Delhi dated 14th December, 2012 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject: Reservation for Persons with Disabilities - reg. This Department had issued instructions vide O.M. No.36035/3/2004- Estt.(Res.) dated 29.12.2005 regarding reservation for Persons with Disabilities, which are in line with the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (PwD Act, 1995). 2. It has been brought to the notice of this Department that the Ministries/Departments are not complying with the instructions of this Department regarding reservation to Persons with Disabilities in posts/services under the Central Government, particularly instructions related to carry forward of the unfilled reserved vacancies, interchange among the three categories of disability and lapsing of unfilled reserved vacancies. 3. This Department had also issued instructions vide O.M. dated 26th April, 2006 and 15th January, 2010 requesting Ministries/Departments to prepare reservation roster registers starting from the year 1996. As per the instructions if some or all the vacancies so earmarked has not been filled by reservation and were filled by able bodied persons either for the reason that points of reservation had not been earmarked properly at the appropriate time or persons with disabilities did not become available, such unutilized reservation might be treated as having been carried forward. 4. Ministries/Departments may ensure that reservation to Persons with Disabilities provided as per extant instructions so as to minimize possibility of creation of backlog reserved vacancies. It is also advised that concerted efforts should be made to clear the backlog through regular recruitments without waiting for Special Recruitment Drives. 5. All Ministries/Departments etc. are requested to scrupulously implement the instructions. sd/- (Sharad Kumar Srivastava) Under Secretary to the Govt. of India Source:http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02adm/36035_6_2012-Estt.Res.-14122012.pdf 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] Cheques with thumb impression
Dear friends: off course the blind can sign. But how could we find whether it is our sign or not? when I was studying BA my college librarian not permitted me to sign then he asked me the above question. I am suggested only put thumb not to sign because being a blind I could not find my sign. - Original Message - From: mukesh jain mukesh.jai...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 1:45 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Cheques with thumb impression hello, even i have tried to learn signature with lot of practice and able to make my signature properly with signature guide but when the things comes to maintaining shape consistency even i am not able to particularise because each time i make the signature with signature guide it comes out accurately but shape does not come as made earlier. so any tips would be of great help. thanks, mukesh. On 12/9/12, Pranav Lal pranav@gmail.com wrote: Hi zoher, I hear you. The question remains; how do you draw consistently without seeing what you are drawing? Did you practice? I have reached a stage where I have to sine about 5 to 6 times a year so I have very little practice. Most of those signatures don't matter much since they belong to things like couriers and attendance sheets. The only issue is with the bank and things like cheques and other financial documents where shape consistency is important. I have seen signature guides but not the kind you describe. Pranav 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 -- Regards, Mukesh jain Email: mukesh.jai...@gmail.com muk...@mukeshjain.org mailing list run by me (info page): http://mail.mukeshjain.org/mailman/listinfo website: www.mukeshjain.org Skype: mukeshjain211 Mob: 09977165123 Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. Helen Keller 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] Cheques with thumb impression
finally what happend did you received ATM card? - Original Message - From: Mahesh S. Panicker maheshspanic...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 5:00 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Cheques with thumb impression Perhaps you can show them how you work with screen readers and stuff. Punjab National Bank created so much of problems for me, but with internet banking there were ok. When they had denied me an ATM card I had complained with the RBI as well. Best, On 12/6/12, Prashanth prashanthmn1...@gmail.com wrote: Here in Mysore, SB M bank's personnel resisting to provide the InternetBanking facility by saying customers who put LTM are illiterates and not eligible to avail the internet banking. Though I persistently tried to explain about the R.B.I's Master Circular , C.C.P.D's judgement of 2005, and I.B.A's oreder based on the judgement, it was no use. I also registered the complaint via SBM's online customer care facility. Till now there is no response from them. So, what is the next step? suggestions awaited! - Original Message - From: mamta mamta.chandiram...@sbi.co.in To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Cheques with thumb impression To add to this I would like to find out that has anyone given a thumb impression check to any third party? I have tried and it was rejected. have tried at least 3 times. with SBI. so I can only use it for self. What about third party? I was not able to issue though have a check book. so what to do in this case? any solutions? Thanks. - Original Message - From: Eyeway Helpdesk helpd...@eyeway.org To: Access India accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 12:36 PM Subject: [AI] Cheques with thumb impression Hi all, We would like to know from those of us who use thumb impression on their cheques if they have to do anything different while taking new cheque books or issuing cheques. Also if you know the procedure your bank follows to approve your cheques issued to third parties, both locally outstation. Banks have higher resistance to give cheque book to a blind person who do not sign but use thumb impression. Your solutions would help us to pass them on to our callers who face such situation and also sensitise banks. Any replies on the matter would be appreciated. Please specify your bank and branch as well. You may write back on or off the list as you may think fit. thanks, Pranay Gadodia | Programme Manager Project Eyeway - A knowledge resource for living a fuller life with vision loss C/o Score Foundation, 17/107, Basement, Vikram Vihar, Lajpatnagar 4, New Delhi 110024, INDIA. Helpdesk:+91 - 11 - 460 70 380 (Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm) Email: helpd...@eyeway.org Website: www.eyeway.org 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 --- The information in this mail is confidential and is intended solely for addressee. Access to this mail by anyone else is unauthorised. Copying or further distribution beyond the original recipient may be unlawful. Any opinion expressed in this mail is that of sender and does not necessarily reflect that of State Bank group. --- 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 -- Mahesh S. Panicker Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College, Lajpat
Re: [AI] what is thunderbird.
could anybody send me link of NVDA - Original Message - From: Siddalingeshwar Ingalagi ingalagisi...@gmail.com To: dr.swetakothar...@gmail.com; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 2:18 AM Subject: Re: [AI] what is thunderbird. thunderbird is nothing but it is also screen reader. but it is not accessable more. that is why NVDA and Jaws are the main screen reader. so I think I cleared your doubt. গে On 12/2/12, dr.swetakothar...@gmail.com dr.swetakothar...@gmail.com wrote: good afternoon to all of you I am also using windows 7 i think i help u so please understand me what is thunderbird. thanking you 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 -- Thanks and Regards. Siddhalingeshwar/Prasad Ingalagi mobile# 8792639989 e-mail ingalagisi...@gmail.com 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] regarding NVDA?
Hi dear access Indian friends good evening to all of you, I hope every one is fine Now and then and hear and their, I am hearing about NVDA I never see it. I never meat the people using NVDA. So I would like to know about it. Could anybody tell me answers for the following questions? 1 what is full form of NVDA? 2 How it may useful to the blind? 3 Is it opens source software? 4 What is the cost of NVDA? 5 from where can we get the software? I wish you all in advance on the occasion of the international day of disabled 3rd December. thanking you all. k. srinivas. 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] Problem in dictionary in Outlook Express
dear friends: i would like to know how to check spelling mistakes in outlook express 2003. could anybody tell me - Original Message - From: Sameer sala...@aim.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Problem in dictionary in Outlook Express Dear Friend, You will need to install third-party English dictionaries in Outlook Express. Spellchecker is one common third-party dictionary that can be used as the default dictionary in Outlook Express. Regards Mr. Sameer Latey Mumbai, India - Original Message - From: Satguru tarannumra...@gmail.com To: Access India accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 3:57 PM Subject: [AI] Problem in dictionary in Outlook Express Hi all, Recently I've upgraded to MS Office 2007 on my laptop running Windows XP. After the upgrade, my spelling check feature in Outlook Express is not working propperly. When I checked in the ToolsOptions under spelling tab, it shows only one language French. Whereas, in word and Excel the default language is set to English (US). Any sollution? Satguru ___,__.___ Life's battle do not always go, to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the one who wins, is the one who thinks he can. Satguru Rathi. Mobile: +91-9971231627 / 9871489945 Email: satgurura...@yahoo.co.in satgurura...@ovi.com Skype: satgururathi Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/satguru.rathi.9 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] Removing barriers to create an inclusive and accessible society for all
Hi dear access Indian friends good evening to all of you ,I hope every one is fine Are you preparing to commemorate and celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December 2012? The theme of this year's commemoration is: Removing barriers to create an inclusive and accessible society for all. Barriers can take a variety of forms, including those relating to the physical environment or to information and communications technology (ICT), or those resulting from legislation or policy, or from societal attitudes or discrimination. Choose your own sub-theme, so as to address a specific issue of exclusion and accessibility in your community such as education, employment, housing, ICT, transportation, travel and tourism or sports. Let us know about it and we will showcase your idea and activity on our website so as to inspire others to do the same. Among the events to be held at UN Headquarters, a high-level event will be held to launch the preparatory process for the 2013 High-level meeting of the General Assembly on disability and development. Over one billion people, or approximately 15 per cent of the world's population, live with some form of disability. Persons with disabilities, the world's largest minority, often face barriers to participation in all aspects of society. Barriers can take a variety of forms, including those relating to the physical environment or to information and communications technology (ICT), or those resulting from legislation or policy, or from societal attitudes or discrimination. The result is that persons with disabilities do not have equal access to society or services, including education, employment, health care, transportation, political participation or justice. Evidence and experience shows that when barriers to their inclusion are removed and persons with disabilities are empowered to participate fully in societal life, their entire community benefits. Barriers faced by persons with disabilities are, therefore, a detriment to society as a whole, and accessibility is necessary to achieve progress and development for all. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) recognizes that the existence of barriers constitutes a central component of disability. Under the Convention, disability is an evolving concept that results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. Accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities are fundamental rights recognized by the CRPD and are not only objectives, but also pre-requisites for the enjoyment of other rights. The CRPD (Article 9, accessibility) seeks to enable persons with disabilities to live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life and development. It calls upon States Parties to take appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities have access to all aspects of society, on an equal basis with others, as well as to identify and eliminate obstacles and barriers to accessibility. In spite of this, in many parts of the world today, lack of awareness and understanding of accessibility as a cross-cutting development issue remains an obstacle to the achievement of progress and development through the Millennium Development Goals, as well as other internationally agreed outcomes for all. The commemoration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities in 2012 provides an opportunity to address this exclusion by focusing on promoting accessibility and removing all types of barriers in society. How the Day may be observed Based on the main theme of IDPD 2012 Removing barriers to create an inclusive and accessible society for all, sub-themes can be selected to cover all aspects of society and development, including, but not limited to, removing barriers to education, employment, transportation, travel and tourism or sports. You can select a sub-theme to address a specific issue of exclusion and accessibility in your community. Include: Observance of the Day provides opportunities for participation by all stakeholders - Governments, the UN system, civil society and organizations of persons with disabilities - to focus on issues related to the removal of barriers to create an inclusive and accessible society that would benefit all. Organize: Hold forums, public discussions and information campaigns in support of the themes of IDPD 2012 to find innovative ways and means by which barriers to the inclusion of persons with disabilities and their families can be broken down. Celebrate: Plan and organize performances everywhere to showcase - and celebrate - the contributions made by persons with disabilities as agents of change and development in the communities in which they live. Take Action: A major focus of the Day is practical action that would help to
[AI] Right To Employment Of Disables: A Law Merely On Paper
dear friends: greetings of the day. i am pasting below an artical which is interested Right To Employment Of Disables: A Law Merely On Paper Priya Bansal - (IV Yr.)National Law Institute University (Bhopal) Human rights are the fundamental or basic rights, which should not be taken away by any individual or government. They comprise within its gamut the right to life and liberty, equality, right to freedom of speech and expression and movement, trade, profession or business freedom of movement, thought, conscience and religion, right to work, right to education etc., these rights cover not only civil or political but also economic, social and cultural dimensions. They aim at promoting social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom. The human rights movement has boldly and categorically shifted the attention of policy makers from the mere provision of charitable services to vigorously protecting their basic right to dignity and self-respect. In the new scenario, the disabled are viewed as individuals with a wide range of abilities and each one of them willing and capable to utilise his/her potential and talents. Society, on the other hand, is seen as the real cause of the misery of people with disabilities since it continues to put numerous barriers as expressed in education, employment, architecture, transport, health and dozens of other activities. Advances in medical and surgical sciences, breakthroughs in technology, greater understanding of the causes of disability and improved methods of coping with it, increasing consciousness of civil rights and the emergence of people with disabilities displaying skills and knowledge to improve their own lives, are some of the factors which have contributed to the new thinking that the disabled deserve a dignified status in society on the same terms as the non-disabled. Human rights are a matter of international concern and their advocates and guardians do exercise constructive influence across geographical and cultural boundaries. An increasing number of countries are opting for laws favourable to disabled people. Legislation would make direct/indirect discrimination against the disabled punishable. Legislation establishes a coherent and comprehensive framework for the promotion of just and fair policies and their effective implementation. It creates formal procedures which hasten the process of full and total integration of the disabled in the society. Disabled people are a vast minority group, which has been subjected to direct and indirect discrimination for centuries in most countries of the world, including India. In a country like India the numbers of the disabled are so large, their problems so complex, available resources so scarce and social attitudes so damaging, it is only legislation which can eventually bring about a substantial change in a uniform manner. Although legislation cannot alone radically change the fabric of a society in a short span of time, it can nevertheless, increase accessibility of the disabled to education and employment, to public buildings and shopping centers, to means of transport and communication. The impact of well-directed legislation in the long run would be profound and liberating. In order to ensure better protection of human rights of the disabled, The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 was promulgated during the year 1995 in order to give effect to the proclamation on the Full Participation and Equality of the People with Disabilities in the Asian and pacific Region. Chapter 6 of the Act deals with employment and contains various incidental provisions related thereto. But with the enactment, implementation is equally necessary. This paper deals with the issue implementation and enforcement of this Act. The relevant laws to the issue are as follows: - International Law International Covenant On Economic, Social And Cultural Rights (ICESCR) The following provisions of the covenants are relevant: - 1) Art.2 - Right to non-discrimination. 2) Art.6 - Right to work. 3) Art.7 - Right to just and favourable conditions of work. 4) Art. 9 - Right to social security. 5) Art.11- Right to adequate standard of living. Of particular importance in the acquiring of economic security is the ability to engage in gainful employment on the basis of equality with others. Articles 6 and 7 of the ICESCR guarantee the right to work. In addition, these provision need to be read in conjunction with the guarantee of non-discrimination in the enjoyment of rights contained in Art.2 (2). In addition to the ICESCR, there are other important conventions relating to the right of persons with disability to work. These include the ILO Convention on Discrimination in Occupation and Employment 1958 (No. 111), which was ratified by India on 3 June 1960, and the ILO Convention on Vocational Rehabilitation and
Re: [AI] Employees association for PWD
sir: i have asked about national level association - Original Message - From: Srinivasu Chakravarthula li...@srinivasu.org To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 7:32 PM Subject: [AI] Employees association for PWD Hi, As someone asked, there is one such organization Visually Challenged Employees' Association based at Hyderabad. They have just started. Their website will be ready soon.. Sent from my iPad 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] one-year computer course for the blind by AICB
for more details could you please Contact All India Confederation of the Blind Braille Bhawan Sector 5 Rohini Delhi- 110085 Phone no: 27054082 / 9810684208 Email: aicbde...@yahoo.com - Original Message - From: Shona Man shonam...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [AI] one-year computer course for the blind by AICB what will be the timings for classes, what about the person who is just learner in computer? On 11/22/12, srinivas.karnati srinivas.carn...@gmail.com wrote: The last date for apply is 10th December. Entrance Exam Date: 29th Dec, 2012 (written test) - Original Message - From: Renuka Warriar eren...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 2:58 AM Subject: Re: [AI] one-year computer course for the blind by AICB Sir, Is there any time period for applying? If so, what is the last date? Renuka. On 11/21/12, srinivas.karnati srinivas.carn...@gmail.com wrote: dear friends: With reference to the subject cited above i am pleased to inform to all of you that All India Confederation of the Blind, a leading NGO, commences its Sixth batch of one-year computer course on 1st January, 2013. Eligibility: Graduates/post graduates Proficiency in English and basic knowledge of computer skills Candidates having qualification of Senior Secondary (10 + 2) can also apply provided their medium of studies was English Course Duration: One-year Entrance Exam Date: 29th Dec, 2012 (written test) Areas covered: 1.. Computer Fundamental 2.. Windows 7 (Troubleshooting) 3.. MS office ( 2007/2010) 4.. Internet (Browsing, E-mailing, Video Conferencing) 5.. JAWS 6.. Software Installation Troubleshooting 7.. Overview Software Testing 8.. Networking (Basic Troubleshooting) 9.. Html, Java, CSS 10.. Programming Languages- C++ Also includes: Communication Skill and Personality Development classes Free hostel facility is also provided for both boys and girls. Contact details: All India Confederation of the Blind Braille Bhawan Sector 5 Rohini Delhi- 110085 Phone no: 27054082 / 9810684208 Email: aicbde...@yahoo.com share this with others k. srinivas Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile devices on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile devices on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 -- LL.M candidate at Faculty of Law in University of Delhi 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ
Re: [AI] one-year computer course for the blind by AICB
The last date for apply is 10th December. Entrance Exam Date: 29th Dec, 2012 (written test) - Original Message - From: Renuka Warriar eren...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 2:58 AM Subject: Re: [AI] one-year computer course for the blind by AICB Sir, Is there any time period for applying? If so, what is the last date? Renuka. On 11/21/12, srinivas.karnati srinivas.carn...@gmail.com wrote: dear friends: With reference to the subject cited above i am pleased to inform to all of you that All India Confederation of the Blind, a leading NGO, commences its Sixth batch of one-year computer course on 1st January, 2013. Eligibility: Graduates/post graduates Proficiency in English and basic knowledge of computer skills Candidates having qualification of Senior Secondary (10 + 2) can also apply provided their medium of studies was English Course Duration: One-year Entrance Exam Date: 29th Dec, 2012 (written test) Areas covered: 1.. Computer Fundamental 2.. Windows 7 (Troubleshooting) 3.. MS office ( 2007/2010) 4.. Internet (Browsing, E-mailing, Video Conferencing) 5.. JAWS 6.. Software Installation Troubleshooting 7.. Overview Software Testing 8.. Networking (Basic Troubleshooting) 9.. Html, Java, CSS 10.. Programming Languages- C++ Also includes: Communication Skill and Personality Development classes Free hostel facility is also provided for both boys and girls. Contact details: All India Confederation of the Blind Braille Bhawan Sector 5 Rohini Delhi- 110085 Phone no: 27054082 / 9810684208 Email: aicbde...@yahoo.com share this with others k. srinivas Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile devices on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile devices on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 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/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] one-year computer course for the blind by AICB
dear friends: With reference to the subject cited above i am pleased to inform to all of you that All India Confederation of the Blind, a leading NGO, commences its Sixth batch of one-year computer course on 1st January, 2013. Eligibility: Graduates/post graduates Proficiency in English and basic knowledge of computer skills Candidates having qualification of Senior Secondary (10 + 2) can also apply provided their medium of studies was English Course Duration: One-year Entrance Exam Date: 29th Dec, 2012 (written test) Areas covered: 1.. Computer Fundamental 2.. Windows 7 (Troubleshooting) 3.. MS office ( 2007/2010) 4.. Internet (Browsing, E-mailing, Video Conferencing) 5.. JAWS 6.. Software Installation Troubleshooting 7.. Overview Software Testing 8.. Networking (Basic Troubleshooting) 9.. Html, Java, CSS 10.. Programming Languages- C++ Also includes: Communication Skill and Personality Development classes Free hostel facility is also provided for both boys and girls. Contact details: All India Confederation of the Blind Braille Bhawan Sector 5 Rohini Delhi- 110085 Phone no: 27054082 / 9810684208 Email: aicbde...@yahoo.com share this with others k. srinivas Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile devices on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] Constitutional Protection and Safeguards to the persons with disabilities
Dear Friends: on behalf of the Development and Welfare Association of the Blind (Andhra Pradesh), on 5th November 2012 once again I have submitted a representation To His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee Hon'ble President of India on sub: Right to equality for persons with disabilities - a proposal for constitutional Recognition - a humble submission for expeditious action-regarding: I am pasting it below for your kind information. Could you please examine the letter and submit the same or with modifications to him and also to the following on be half of your respective organizations. 1. to the pry minister of India 2. to all the ministers of council 3. to all the members of both houses of parliament 4. The presidents and general secretaries of national and regional political parties Thanking you all. k. srinivas Secretary DWAB Nalgonda AP. To His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee Hon'ble President of India Ref: 135/dwab/2012 Dated: 4th November 2012 Respected Sir, Sub: Right to equality for persons with disabilities - a proposal for constitutional Recognition - a humble submission for expeditious action-regarding: We, on behalf of the Development and Welfare Association of the Blind (Andhra Pradesh), in consultation with several other organisations and like-minded individuals, hereby submit the following few lines for your kind enough consideration and request you with humility to do the needful in the direction of providing constitutional remedy to the historic injustice inflicted upon the citizens with disabilities in our land of rich heritage and culture of co-existence: As his Excellency might be fully aware, nearly Three Crore Indians - 3% of our population - are officially counted as people suffering from various disabilities, visual-impairment, hearing-impairment and other locomotor disabilities in particular. Ironically enough, a large proportion of this population suffers gross negligence in the hands of our public institutions. It is now estimated that nearly Fifteen Million visually-impaired and around Sixty-four Million other disabled have been subjected to the cruelties of daily life, and almost all of them are living without basic amenities such as food, decent clothing, a shelter of their own and minimum education. At a time our policy echelons are busy ensuring human rights for other marginalised groups, SCs, STs and Women, here are the minuscule minority who live away in a shear silence a life that falls below the standards any civilisation can ever think of. We hope his Excellency would agree with us in a candid admission that the socio-economic backwardness of persons with disabilities in our country stems from nowhere but our own constitution that fails to make any meaningful provision for the rights of this scattered community. While Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Constitution took extra-care to ensure the right of equality for all citizens in India, with enough safeguards for such marginalised sections as SCs, STs and OBCs through affirmative policy in education and employment, persons with disabilities have been conveniently forsaken in this thwarted war of vote-bank politics. Look at, for example, the speed with which Governments in the recent past have moved swiftly and brought about 27% reservation for OBCs in education and employment through the constitutional Amendment, and the same swiftness that can be seen in the present regime's attempt to provide 33% reservation for women through another Constitutional Amendment. Persons with disabilities at times really feel let down in the present political climate where every community with a sizeable Vote-bank and social capital is frequently showered with all policy concessions, whereas, persons with disabilities, who are a scattered minority at best (with very little advantage for commanding vote-bank manoeuvring in a given place), are never taken seriously by our majoritarian democracy. Consequently, the real concerns of this genuinely deprived community hardly get any attention, whatsoever. The depiction briefly outlined above may give you an impression that the signatories of this letter are unaware of the recent initiatives being undertaken by the Governments in favour of persons with disabilities, which we wish to clarify in unequivocal terms in the following lines with as much precision as possible: The socio-economic deprivation of persons with disabilities and a well-found recognition that this deprivation is due largely to lack of constitutional safeguards is neither entirely new nor has been hidden from the ruling regimes of post-independent India. The Government of India under the leadership of Sri Rajiv Gandhi set up a committee to consider legislation for the physically challenged. Headed by Shri Baharul Islam, a distinguished parliamentarian at that time, the
[AI] Sirs/Madams
Sirs/Madams, As per the information available at http://socialjustice.nic.in/pdf/samarth.pdf Samarth, National Festival scheduled to be held during 15-17 November 2012 stands postponed due to certain unavoidable reasons. Revised dates of the festival will be intimated as and when finalized. With regards, A. KUMARESAN Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] Fw: Reservation Concession
Dear friends: I am forwarding this mail witch I received from another list. Please examine the letter and send the same or with some modifications to the authorities concerned on be half of your respective organizations. Thanking you all. k. srinivas Secretary DWAB Nalgonda AP. - Original Message - From: kalaivani GA To: nprd...@gmail.com ; sm.basha...@gmail.com ; tks7...@gmail.com ; gandhimoh...@gmail.com ; npr...@gmail.com ; sdvarade1...@gmail.com ; ghemago...@gmail.com ; hema_balra...@rediffmail.com ; djhar...@gmail.com ; shuklakartike...@gmail.com ; bala19...@yahoo.com ; kandulabalabhas...@yahoo.com ; sramprasat...@gmail.com ; sudha.k...@gmail.com ; gandhimath...@gmail.com ; rod_patric...@hotmail.com ; kodakka...@rediffmail.com ; dsk1...@yahoo.com ; seshagirira...@gmail.com ; han...@indiatimes.com ; rajiv_...@yahoo.co.in ; jindal1...@gmail.com ; shyamsingh.panc...@yahoo.in ; npbsnl_2...@yahoo.com ; aknair...@yahoo.co.uk ; papa9...@gmail.com ; viklangsangh@gmail.com ; charan.vat...@gmail.com ; dssain...@gmail.com ; hc_jaisw...@yahoo.co.in ; mgppanic...@gmail.com ; mbhatia...@gmail.com ; gmukesh...@yahoo.co.in ; sanjaysharm...@gmail.com ; raj...@gmail.com ; khansalahuddin2...@gmail.com ; kanakarao...@gmail.com ; rcs12_in...@rediffmail.com ; mbatr...@yahoo.in ; mrajsu...@yahoo.co.in ; dwab_...@yahoo.com ; srinivas.carn...@gmail.com ; bapuraok...@gmail.com ; hbasavaraj1...@yahoo.co.in ; madhumitap...@gmail.com ; lvijayvarg...@yahoo.co.in ; sivagamikrishna...@gmail.com ; rvenu...@yahoo.com ; secretar...@ncpedp.org ; tarat...@gmail.com ; a_kumares...@yahoo.co.in Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 12:43 AM Subject: Fwd: Reservation Concession -- Forwarded message -- From: kalaivani GA kalaivani...@sify.com Date: Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 2:07 PM Subject: Reservation Concession To: dir-ddiii@nic.in Cc: c...@nic.in, tddhari...@hotmail.com, secretaryda-m...@nic.in To Shri K.V.S. Rao, Director (DD-III National Awards) Ministry of Social Justice Empowerment, Room No.602-A, ‘A’ Wing, Shashtri Bhavan, New Delhi – 110 001. E-mail ID: dir-ddiii@nic.in Sir, I would like to discuss the following in the SAMARTH which was scheduled to be held on 16.11.2012 and postponed. It is highly appreciated that recently Government of India have undertaken a process of bringing about extensive amendments to the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. This decision is a welcome measure. It is also deeply appreciated that the decision of the Government of India ratifying the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. However, the concern is much deeper. 1) DOPT OMs issued on the subject of “Reservation in promotion to disabled employees to Group ‘A’ and ‘B’ Cadres”: Prior to the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 coming into force, Government of India had, by administrative instructions like DOPT OM dated 04.09.1985 and 20.11.1989, provided reservation for disabled persons in Group “C” “D” posts. This is some what similar to what the SCs/STs employees enjoy in Government Service with an unique feature that reservation is provided in identified posts. After the Disability Act came into force, such a reservation was permissible even for Group “A” “B” posts. This led the DOPT to issue OM dated 18.02.1997. As per this OM, for Group “A” “B” posts, the reservation was only at induction level. Vide O.M. dated 16.01.1998, sub-para (ii) of OM dated 18.02.1997 was replaced as under:- (ii) The existing policy of reservation for SCs/STs, including for the physically handicapped in promotion in all Groups is applicable to all grades and services, where the element of direct recruitment does not exceed 75%. Hence, it is not in dispute that reservation exists for disabled employees not only in direct recruitment but also in promotion for the post in respect whereof the element of direct recruitment does not exceed 75%. 2) DOPT OM dated 29.12.2005: However, in suppression of all the above OMs, the DOPT vide its OM dated 29.12.2005, has restricted reservations only in induction level to all cadres and in promotions to Group “C” and “D” cadres only. It is also appropriate to mention here that most of the posts of Group ”C” have now slowly become Group “B”, without providing any safety clause of reservation and relaxation to disabled employees, which they had been enjoying before it’s up-gradation as Group ‘B’ posts consequent to the recommendations of 5th and 6th Pay Commissions and Group “D” posts have been abolished now in response to the recommendations of 6th Pay Commission. The reservation to disabled employees in promotion in Group ‘C’ cadre has also virtually been lost as in most of the Direct Recruitment cadres the element of direct recruitment exceeds 75% and reservation
[AI] Fw: Freedom Scientific Releases JAWS 14 Screen Reading Software
Hello friends! Have a nice day and happy dussehra to all of you. today Freedom Scientific announced the release of version 14 of JAWS® for Windows, the world's premier screen reading software. - Original Message - From: @ Freedom Scientific News To: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7:17 AM Subject: Freedom Scientific Releases JAWS 14 Screen Reading Software Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Greetings! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Brad Davis 800-444-4443 or 727-803-8000 www.FreedomScientific.com Sales: i...@freedomscientific.com Freedom Scientific Releases JAWS 14 New Flexible Web, Vocalizer, Support for Windows 8 (St. Petersburg, Florida - October 24, 2012) - Freedom Scientific today announced the release of version 14 of JAWS® for Windows, the world's premier screen reading software. This release includes a new feature called Flexible Web, designed to give users better control when reading Web pages. This innovation allows screen reader users to identify and block extraneous content, such as advertisements and social media links that sighted people skip right past, but that are serious hindrances to navigation and continuous reading for blind users. Available for use with Internet Explorer or Firefox, Flexible Web includes a wizard that makes it easy to create global rules or Web page specific rules. JAWS 14 is also the first screen reader offering support for the Windows 8 Operating System. The new Windows 8 Start Screen and Windows Store Apps such as IE, E-mail, Calendar, and Contacts, are all supported. Freedom Scientific worked with Microsoft on the new Accessibility Driver, to provide JAWS cursor and Braille support on this new operating system. This release offers some significant breakthroughs in accessibility for screen reader users, said Eric Damery, Vice President of Software Product Management for Freedom Scientific. Flexible Web is one of the biggest advances in Web access for screen reader users since the introduction of Navigation Quick Keys and the Links List. The new Vocalizer Voices, provided for free, allow JAWS users to read most Outlook 2010 and 2007 e-mails for the first time without having to open them in a browser. These advances, along with all the other features and enhancements, make this new version of JAWS a 'must have' to go along with our all new MAGic® 12 release. The JAWS 14 upgrade is an SMA release and can be downloaded as either a 32- or 64-bit version from the JAWS downloads page. DVD shipments to SMA holders and new product customers will commence on Nov 1, 2012. About Freedom Scientific Freedom Scientific is the leading worldwide provider of assistive technology products for those with vision impairments. The Company sells its products worldwide and has offices in Florida and Switzerland. The Company's products have been translated into 24 languages and are available in 55 countries. Freedom also has a line of software products for those with learning disabilities. Freedom Scientific®, JAWS® and MAGic®are either trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Forward email This email was sent to srinivas.carn...@gmail.com by freedomscientificn...@freedomscientific.com | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribeT | Privacy Policy. Freedom Scientific | 11800 31st Court North | St. Petersburg | FL | 33716-1805 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] Fw: All New MAGic 12 Screen Magnification Software
dear friends: - Original Message - From: @ Freedom Scientific News To: srinivas.carn...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 9:26 AM Subject: All New MAGic 12 Screen Magnification Software Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Greetings! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Brad Davis 800-444-4443 or 727-803-8000 www.FreedomScientific.com Sales: i...@freedomscientific.com Freedom Scientific's MAGic 12 Sets a New Standard in Screen Magnification New Look and Feel, HD Text, Speech On Demand, and More (St. Petersburg, Florida - October 24, 2012) - Freedom Scientific, the world leader in assistive technology for those that are low vision or blind, today announced the release of version 12 of its MAGic® screen magnification software. MAGic makes it possible for computer users with macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and other causes of low vision to use a PC. It increases the size of what a user sees on the monitor, all the way up to 36 times magnification and can also speak out loud what's on the screen. This MAGic release has a simple, attractive user interface delivering the enhancements most requested by our users, says Dusty Voorhees, Senior Product Manager at Freedom Scientific. The new HD Text feature smooths the letters no matter which font or magnification level you choose - no more looking at blocky, pixilated text as you increase magnification. The new HD mouse offers selectable styles and continuous mouse pointer sizing that remains sharp at all magnification levels. This new look and feel provides intuitive access to any feature while being easy on the eyes, so users enjoy longer computing sessions with more comfort and less fatigue. This release is replete with unique new features that enhance productivity for low vision users: a.. Take full control of what MAGic says, and when it says it, with Speech On DemandT. Using speech can reduce eye fatigue and improve efficiency, but sometimes too much speech can be overwhelming. MAGic 12 goes far beyond a simple on/off toggle for speech, allowing you to eliminate extra chatter. No other screen magnification product provides this level of control over the speech you hear. b.. All new mouse, cursor, and color schemes make it easier for low vision users to work in today's modern applications. Enhancements offer high-contrast, low-glare screens and a customizable, easy-to-track mouse and cursor. c.. Application-specific voice profiles make it very easy to select, create, change, and save default voice settings d.. Research It gives you quick and easy access to a wide range of information available on the Internet, and it's available at the touch of a button if you're using the MAGic Large Print Keyboard e.. Navigation Quick Keys make surfing the Web and working with PDF files more efficient. Get to where you want to be with just a key press. f.. The Skim Reading tool gets you quickly to just the information you want For a downloadable demonstration copy of MAGic 12, or to find out how to upgrade, visit the MAGic What's New page. Competitive Upgrade Promotion We're sure that many longtime screen magnification users will want to upgrade to MAGic 12 once they see its features, says Voorhees. We want to give them that opportunity, even if they are not currently using MAGic. Through January 31, 2013, ZoomText users can upgrade to MAGic 12 for just $199. They'll get MAGic 12 with Speech, a MAGic Large Print Keyboard, and an SMA. A five-seat license can be upgraded for $995, including five keyboards and the SMA. For more information on this upgrade promotion, call 1-800-444-4443. About Freedom Scientific Freedom Scientific is the leading worldwide provider of assistive technology products for those with vision impairments. The Company sells its products worldwide and has offices in Florida and Switzerland. The Company's products have been translated into 24 languages and are available in 55 countries. Freedom also has a line of software products for those with learning disabilities. Freedom Scientific® MAGic®, and Speech On DemandT are either trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Forward email This email was sent to srinivas.carn...@gmail.com by freedomscientificn...@freedomscientific.com | Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribeT | Privacy Policy. Freedom Scientific | 11800 31st Court North | St. Petersburg | FL | 33716-1805 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other
Re: [AI] Fw: DRAFT BILL 2012
Sir, Since 1985 Government of India have been providing reservation in Government Service in Groups C and D cadres at induction level and promotion along with relaxed standards for recruitment. By issuing DOPT OMs dated 04.07.1997 and 16.01.1998 reservation was extended for both direct recruitment and promotion to all the cadres of Group A, B, C and D cadre. These OMs were issued in tune with Section 33 of PWD Act 1995. However, in suprression of all these OMs, DOPT vide OM dated 29.12.2005 restricted reservation only at induction level and for promotion in C and D cadres which they can't do as per Section 72 of the above Act and which is againt the spirit of Section 33 of the Act. Under the circumstances, M/o of SJE has also in Draft Bill 2012 stated that reservation is applicable only for direct recruitment. - Original Message - From: Umesha Economics umesha@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 4:55 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Fw: DRAFT BILL 2012 dear srinivas, a very good message. but can you briefly summarize it particularly the implications so that a legally challenged like me also understand? Umesha - Original Message - From: srinivas.karnati srinivas.carn...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, 19 October, 2012 8:54 PM Subject: [AI] Fw: DRAFT BILL 2012 dear accessindians good evining to all of you. i am forwarding this mail because the subject is very important - Original Message - From: A. KUMARESAN To: tarat...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:16 AM Subject: DRAFT BILL 2012 Sir, Recently Government of India have undertaken the process to bring about the extensive amendments to the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. This decision is a welcome measure. It is deeply appreciated that the decision of the Government of India ratifying the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. However, the concern is much deeper. Prior to the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 coming into force, Government of India had, by administrative instructions, like DOPT OM dated 04.09.1985 and 20.11.1989, provided reservation for disabled persons in Group “C” “D” posts. This is somewhat similar to what the SCs/STs employees enjoying in Government Service with an unique feature that reservation is provided in identified posts After the Disability Act came into force, such a reservation was permissible even for Group “A” “B” posts. This led the DOPT to issue OM dated 18.02.1997 (Annexures – I and IA). As per this OM, for Group “A” “B” posts, the reservation was only at induction level. Significant corrigendum was issued by the DOPT vide OM dated 04.07.1997 (Annexure- II), which extended the point number 1, 34 and 67 in cycle of 100 vacancies in the 100 point register and marked for reservation for disabled employees. It is clear from the above that point No.1, 34 and 67 in the cycle of 100 are now earmarked for reservation for disabled employees and thus reservation is admissible even for Group “A” “B” posts in promotion category also and not only at the induction level. This OM is brought in tune with the letter and spirit of Section 33 of the above Act which stipulates not less than 3% reservation in an establishment in the post identified for each disability. Vide O.M. dated 16.01.1998 (Annexure –III), sub-para (ii) of OM dated 18.02.1997 (Annexure – I) was replaced as under:- (ii) The existing policy of reservation for SCs/STs, including for the physically handicapped in promotion in all Groups is applicable to all grades and services, where the element of direct recruitment does not exceed 75%. Hence, it is not in dispute that reservation exists for disabled employees in promotion for the post in respect whereof the element of direct recruitment does not exceed 75%. From the above, it is very clear that reservation to disabled exists not only at induction level but also for promotion. All these DOPT OMs referred to above have been issued after enactment of the above Act and in some OMs the said Act has been referred to. However, in suppression of all the above OMs, the DOPT vide its OM dated 29.12.2005 (Annexure – IV), has restricted reservations only in induction level to all cadres and in promotions to Group “C” and “D” cadres only. It is also appropriate to mention here that most of the posts of Group ”C” have now become Group “B”, without providing any safety clause of reservation and relaxation to disabled employees, which they have been enjoying before it’s up-gradation as Group ‘B’ posts and Group “D” posts have been abolished now in response
[AI] Fw: DRAFT BILL 2012
dear accessindians good evining to all of you. i am forwarding this mail because the subject is very important - Original Message - From: A. KUMARESAN To: tarat...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:16 AM Subject: DRAFT BILL 2012 Sir, Recently Government of India have undertaken the process to bring about the extensive amendments to the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. This decision is a welcome measure. It is deeply appreciated that the decision of the Government of India ratifying the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. However, the concern is much deeper. Prior to the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 coming into force, Government of India had, by administrative instructions, like DOPT OM dated 04.09.1985 and 20.11.1989, provided reservation for disabled persons in Group “C” “D” posts. This is somewhat similar to what the SCs/STs employees enjoying in Government Service with an unique feature that reservation is provided in identified posts After the Disability Act came into force, such a reservation was permissible even for Group “A” “B” posts. This led the DOPT to issue OM dated 18.02.1997 (Annexures – I and IA). As per this OM, for Group “A” “B” posts, the reservation was only at induction level. Significant corrigendum was issued by the DOPT vide OM dated 04.07.1997 (Annexure- II), which extended the point number 1, 34 and 67 in cycle of 100 vacancies in the 100 point register and marked for reservation for disabled employees. It is clear from the above that point No.1, 34 and 67 in the cycle of 100 are now earmarked for reservation for disabled employees and thus reservation is admissible even for Group “A” “B” posts in promotion category also and not only at the induction level. This OM is brought in tune with the letter and spirit of Section 33 of the above Act which stipulates not less than 3% reservation in an establishment in the post identified for each disability. Vide O.M. dated 16.01.1998 (Annexure –III), sub-para (ii) of OM dated 18.02.1997 (Annexure – I) was replaced as under:- (ii) The existing policy of reservation for SCs/STs, including for the physically handicapped in promotion in all Groups is applicable to all grades and services, where the element of direct recruitment does not exceed 75%. Hence, it is not in dispute that reservation exists for disabled employees in promotion for the post in respect whereof the element of direct recruitment does not exceed 75%. From the above, it is very clear that reservation to disabled exists not only at induction level but also for promotion. All these DOPT OMs referred to above have been issued after enactment of the above Act and in some OMs the said Act has been referred to. However, in suppression of all the above OMs, the DOPT vide its OM dated 29.12.2005 (Annexure – IV), has restricted reservations only in induction level to all cadres and in promotions to Group “C” and “D” cadres only. It is also appropriate to mention here that most of the posts of Group ”C” have now become Group “B”, without providing any safety clause of reservation and relaxation to disabled employees, which they have been enjoying before it’s up-gradation as Group ‘B’ posts and Group “D” posts have been abolished now in response to the recommendations of VI Pay Commission. The DOPT OM dated 29.12.2005 was issued with a view to consolidating the existing instructions, purportedly bringing them in line with the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights Full Participation) Act, 1995 and clarifying certain issues including procedural matters with regard to reservation for persons with disabilities in posts and services under the Government of India and this OM is said to have superseded all previous instructions issued on the subject so far. But, “consolidate” means, as per dictionary meaning, “merge”, “combine”, “unite”, “join”, “strengthen”, “secure” etc and not “disregard” or “ignore” which means the existing OMs can be clubbed / joined together and no OM can be ignored or disregarded. But the DOPT has disregarded all the DOPT OMs cited in the preceding paragraphs which allowed reservation not only for direct recruitment but also for promotion in all cadres of Group ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ ‘D’ and blatantly stated to have issued with a view to consolidating the existing instructions on the matter. It is not known why DOPT has made such a betrayal to disabled people. It is a well noted principle that the Parliament has made the above Act for the benefits of the disabled and it is mandatory to amend the Act through parliament only if
[AI] Fw: $ 5000 award opportunity from World Bank
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[AI] 15th October. white cane safety day
Hello accesindian! Friends! Good morning to all of you. Today is 15th October. Today we are celebrating white cane safety day here is a history of the day. WHITE STICK AS SYMBOL OF BLINDNESS - HISTORY (From RNIB reference library information file) An Englishman and a Frenchwoman both claim to have originated the idea. 1921 - James Biggs of Bristol (as he claims in New Beacon article, Dec. 1937, pp. 320/321) thought of idea of painting his stick white -- wrote to various institutions, Chief Constables, newspapers, magazines, etc... 1930 - First reference in New Beacon (December, p. 265) to white stick - In Paris, the Prefect of Police is supporting the idea that blind pedestrians shall carry white sticks 1931 - February - Mlle Guilly d'Herbemont, with the assistance of one of the editors of l'Echo de Paris launched national white stick movement in France. 1931 - Taken up by British Press - West Ham Rotary Club's offer to supply white sticks to blind people in the area accepted - in May, the BBC broadcast the suggestion that all blind persons should be provided with a white stick, which should be nationally recognised by the public 1932 - National Institute for the Blind started stocking and selling white sticks WHITE CANE SAFETY DAY By provision of P.L. 88-628, 88th Congress, 2d Session, October 15 to be proclaimed each year by the President of the United States as White Cane Safety Day. First such proclamation issued by Lyndon B. Johnson on October 6, 1964. (Ref.: NOB, Dec. 1964, 58 (10), 332.) October 15, 1970 was declared International White Cane Safety Day for the first time by the President of the International Federation of the Blind. This date was adopted at the first quinquennial convention of the IFB, held in Colombo on October 4, 1969. (Ref.: Braille International, July 1971, 4(2), 14-18.) First celebrated in United Kingdom 15 October 1979. (Ref.: New Beacon, September 1979, 63(749), 232.) ** (Viewpoint, June 1991) The White Cane - A Commemoration by Dr. A Mutter (Editor's note) The white cane is now recognised as the blind person's mobility aid the world over. Ever since US President Lyndon S. Johnson first proclaimed it in 1964, White Cane Day has become the day of the year to publicise the needs and achievements of blind people everywhere. What follows is an appreciation of Peguilly d'Herbemont, the French woman who was responsible for introducing the white cane 60 years ago. She was a lady of French high society who devoted much of her time and fortune to the welfare of the blind. The writer of the article, himself blind, taught for a time in the mid-30s at Worcester College for the Blind, later joining the German Diplomatic Service and finishing up as First Secretary to the German Legation in Berne, Switzerland. The article is reproduced by kind permission of the German Federation of the Blind, in whose organ it first appeared in January of this year. It is based on a book commemorating the originator of the white cane who died in her 92nd year, on 28th February 1980, by Mireille Oblin-Briere who met our heroine towards the end of her long life. She was so moved by her story that she set it down before her memories faded altogether and her papers and records were lost to the world. Peguilly d'Herbemont was born on 25th June 1888 into an old French noble family of the same name. In her youth she led the conventional and protected existence, devoid of great activity, of a girl from a good family, an existence reminiscent of the life of the aristocracy before the French Revolution. She never visited a public school, but was educated by German and English governesses and convent sisters. Her movements were restricted and were mainly confined to the family positions in Paris and Belgium, but she spent most of her time at the castle of Charmois not far from Verdun. A lyrical strain in her nature led her to write quite sensitive poetry, reminiscent of Verlaine. Her biographer sees their origin in a secret love affair which was never revealed. In time, this became subsumed by a passionate love of nature and the sympathy to her less favoured fellow human beings. In the process of helping individual blind people across the road, Mademoiselle d'Herbemont was made aware by narrow scrapes which almost led to accidents, of the precarious situation of the visually impaired brought about by the steadily increasing traffic on the roads. She first spoke about measures to protect the blind against street hazards to her mother in 1930, but she was of the opinion that it was unfit for a lady of good society to create a public outcry and advised her to stick to the transcription of books, a popular pastime of ladies of rank at the time. But the idea did not leave her. The urgent wish to encourage the integration of the blind into society by providing them with a means of moving about more freely without
Re: [AI] Tiny Talking MP3 player
The Tiny Tunes MP3 Player costs US $75, which works out to about INR3962 - Original Message - From: ashook kumar ashokkumaaa...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Tiny Talking MP3 player how much its cost? Where from i get it? On 10/12/12, Raaj vennillaicecr...@gmail.com wrote: A friend sent me this announcement, so I thought I'd pass it along: A Big Hello from the Braille Superstore, http://www.BrailleSuperstore.com It's small. It's powerful. It's affordable. And best of all ... it talks! Yes folks, it's here. After years of development and rigorous testing, we are rolling out our very own talking MP3 player, complete with a voice recorder, FM Radio, and an E-Book reader. Unlike its competitors, our Talking MP3 player is small (about the size of a cigarette lighter) and ridiculously inexpensive. Finally, blind folks can take music wherever they go - on a player that doesn't cost hundreds of dollars. Announcing the world's first talking MP3 player - at a price everyone can afford! Select the album you want to listen to for your afternoon walk. Pause to record a note for later, then listen to the radio on the way home. Curl up for a while with your favorite E-Book, then switch over to Recordings and play Mom's famous cookie recipe. You can't see the screen, but it doesn't matter. Every song title, every menu option, and every page of your E-Book is spoken out loud. It's all possible thanks to one extraordinary device - the Tiny Tunes MP3 player. Unlike every digital player on the market today, you never need to look at the screen when using this device. As you move through the songs in your current album, each new title is spoken to you as you select it. Names of albums, genres and even artists are also read audibly. Concerned about changing settings, selecting options, finding the right recording or reading a book? Don't be, because all those features are voiced aloud, too. Put simply, everything that comes up on the screen of this MP3 player is spoken in clear, synthetic speech. Your new player is powered by an internal Lithium Ion battery, which lasts between ten and fifteen hours without power and charges through USB. It also boasts four gigabytes of internal flash memory, which will hold approximately two thousand songs. The player comes packed into a durable, thick leather case, which even has two large speakers built into the front. The player has a safety-lock switch to prevent accidental bumping of the buttons while listening, and standard-sized USB and headphone jacks. The package even comes with a USB cable and a pair of stylish earphones. The Tiny Tunes MP3 Player itself from Future Aids is small, smaller than two fingers put together and less than an ounce in weight. It plays all standard music files, organizes your music exactly the way you want, has a built-in voice recorder, reads E-Books, and even boasts an FM radio. All these features are impressive, but the fact that every function talks makes this player worth its weight in gold. Digital music and E-Books have completely redefined modern-day entertainment. Come join the fun with one small device - boasting one powerful set of features! The Tiny Tunes MP3 Player is scheduled to be released over the Thanksgiving long weekend (November 22). To insure you get yours as quickly as possible, please place your pre-order today. To read more about this exciting player, or to pre-order it, please visit the below link. It will take you directly to the product page. http://www.BrailleSuperstore.com/view.php?T=Tiny+Tunes+MP3+Player Regards, Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] information about school
Development and Welfare Association of the Blind, Andhra Pradesh (Reg. No. Mc 4460 / 1996) Affiliated to All India Confederation of the Blind ,New Delhi SURDAS BHAVAN, DEENDAYAL NAGAR, GOLLAGUDA, NALGONDA, (A.p), pin- 508001 Phone: 08682 227920, Telefax: 08682 229654, E-mail: dwab_...@yahoo.com Web: www.helpblind.org _ The DWAB (Development and Welfare Association of the Blind) started a hostel in 1996 for the children of integrated education system at Nalgonda. In 1999 it was converted in to a secondary residential school as Nalgonda School for the Blind. We had constructed a four storied building with 42 rooms in DWAB own land with the donations from the patrons. We have Administrative Block and Class Rooms in Ground Floor. We also have Braille type learning centre, Braille printer for preparation of brail notes, one Dinning Hall, Kitchen and separate dormitory for girls are in the first floor. In the second floor we have Computer Learning Centre, Boys dormitory, Braily Books Library and store room and at third floor a well furnished auditorium with 500 seating capacity and one small guest house for care taker is constructed. We can proudly claim for fame that no such blind school is functioning in entire Andhra Pradesh with such excellent amenities and infrastructure. Today there are about 146 blind students with separate facilities for boys and girls. We are providing Hostel facility with Education totally free for blind. This school is running by DWAB-Nalgonda with partial aid by the Government of India through the Ministry of Social Justice and empowerment since 1999 and donations from NRIs philanthropists. The school is recognized by the Government, having higher standards of Braille education. The school has been fetching 100% results since its inception in 1996. We have 22 well trained Teachers and 15 members as supporting staff. As you all know, these disabled children need more no. of supporting staff than able children. Several dignitaries from Government and eminent personalities from public life visited our school and expressed their utmost satisfaction and happiness over the functioning of the school. We appeal to all the people to direct parents of the blind children in the age group of 6 to 16 years to admit in our school. They will be provided school and hostel facilities free of cost from classes 1st to 10th. Call for all queries: 098496 43534 or 09490589531 or send mail to srinivas.carn...@gmail.com visit www.helpblind.org - Original Message - From: pankaj Singh kushwaha justicewith...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 12:01 AM Subject: [AI] information about school hi friends please tell me any boarding blind school in south India . my friends want to admition there. so kindly provide me information . Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] Request for Vote
sir: i have tryed to give a MISSED CALL on the number: +912261850716. but it is saying that the number is not Exist - Original Message - From: Cornelius Lyngdoh cornelyng...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 2:50 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Request for Vote On 10/8/12, Cornelius Lyngdoh cornelyng...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have tried giving missed call but it said call not allowed On 10/8/12, Shiva Prakash M A mashivapraka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, An NGO ' DIvya Jyothi Charitable trust for Blind' is participating in a competition by name 'Spark the Rise' conducted by the Mahindra group. Here the participants require to submit a project they want to work on and the Public voting is used to choose a winner. The project: The NGO ias planning to start a Braille Transcription centre where they can print Braille books inlarge scale. This is very rarely available outside and if its available, poeple charge hefty prices which most cant afford. The organisation aims at creating a huge library(Now existing on a small scale) for itself where any needy person can borrow books free of cost. This requires the to buy a machine called 'Braille Embozer' and they also need to employ a technician to operate it. There are various other challanges they face in the process,which they are willing to face with a dream to fulfill the wish of every blind person aspiring to gain knowledge. Please visit the site http://www.sparktherise.com/projects-listing.php?catid=1 and select 'Proposal of Braille Transcription Center' submitted by 'Divya Jyothi Charitable trust for Visually Challanged' for more details about their project YOUR ROLE IN THIS: As this competition is dependent on Public voting,the more votes they gain from public,more are their chances of winng. Its same as in today's reality shows.. The winners of this contest will be given a prize money which they will use towards their project. There are various stages in voting, with the projects with least votes being filtered at every stage. The ones which can make it to the last rounds will gain something very benificial for pursuing their dream. So its your POWER TO VOTE which is going to create thier future. TO VOTE: The BEST PART of this competition is a very user friendly voting. You can either give a missed call or send a mesage. Please give a MISSED CALL on the number: +912261850716(Mobile numbers only-No land lines can vote by this method) OR Please send a message MHRISESPACEP06794 to 54646 OR You can also vote online by following the steps given below: Step 1: Please Copy and Paste the url: http://www.sparktherise.com/projects-listing.php?catid=1 Step 2: Roll over you mouse on the project by name 'Proposal of Braille Transcription Center' submitted by 'Divya Jyothi Charitable trust for Visually Challanged'. Step 3: Click on Vote. Step 4: Please select 'Site Vote'. Step 5: Please click on the red VOTE button on the page. Select 'Site vote'. Step 6: You will find hyperlink saying 'NOT REGISTERED?CLICK HERE' below the LOGIN button. Step 7: Please fill the small registration form and Register yourself. Step 8: Please click on the activation link that will be sent to your mail to complete registration. Step 9: Fill the form that opens after the step and complete the Mobile number verification and address verification. Step 10: Please select 'BROWSE AND DISCOVER' tab and click 'Voting Opens' button. Then click 'Vote Now' Step 11: Please follow steps 2, 3 AND 4. YOUR VOTING IS COMPLETE AND SUCCESSFUL. I think missed call is preferred;) A MISSED CALL FROM YOU MIGHT HELP SOMEONE NOT MISS A GREAT LIFE. 5 MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE MIGHT GIFT SOMEONE A GREAT LIFETIME. With Regards -- M A Shivaprakash Door No: 742 Amrutha Nilaya 11th Main 4th Stage T K Layout Sarswathipuram Mysore Pin: 570009 Mobile no 9886409563 E-Mail: mashivapraka...@gmail.com ma_shivaprak...@yahoo.co.in Website www.divyajyothitrust.org Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 -- Thanks regards Cornelius Lyngdoh Email: cornelyng...@gmail.com Skype Name: cornelius.lyngdoh Facebook Account: cornelius.lyngdoh Phone no. +919686046947 Favourite quotation: Be the change you want the world to see -- Thanks regards Cornelius Lyngdoh Email: cornelyng...@gmail.com Skype Name: cornelius.lyngdoh Facebook Account: cornelius.lyngdoh Phone no. +919686046947 Favourite quotation: Be the change you want the world to see Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your
[AI] Mahatma Gandhi: Father Of The Nation
Mahatma Gandhi: Father Of The Nation Thinker, statesman and nationalist leader, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi not only led his own country to independence but also influenced political activists of many persuasions throughout the world with his methods and philosophy of nonviolent confrontation, or civil disobedience. Born in Porbandar in Gujarat on October 2, 1869, his actions inspired the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore to call him Mahatma (great soul). For him, the universe was regulated by a Supreme Intelligence or Principle, which he preferred to call satya (Truth) and, as a concession to convention, God. Since all human beings partook of the divine essence, they were ultimately one. They were not merely equal but identical. As such, love was the only proper form of relation between them; it was the law of our being, of our species. Positively, love implied care and concern for others and total dedication to the cause of wiping away every tear from every eye. Negatively it implied ahimsa or 'non violence'. Gandhi's entire social and political thought, including his theory of Satyagraha, was an attempt to work out the implications of the principle of love in all areas of life.Gandhi himself felt that he was most influenced by his mother whose life was an endless chain of fasts and vows as a devout adherent of Jainism, a religion in which ideas of nonviolence and vegetarianism are paramount. Married by arrangement at 13, Gandhi went to London to study law when he was 18. He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and for a while practiced law in Bombay. From 1893 to 1914 he worked for an Indian firm in South Africa. During these years Gandhi's humiliating experiences of overt racial discrimination propelled him into agitation on behalf of the Indian community of South Africa. He assumed leadership of protest campaigns and gradually developed his techniques and tenets of nonviolent resistance known as Satyagraha (literally, steadfastness in truth). Returning to India in January 1915, Gandhi soon became involved in labor organizing. The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of Amritsar (1919), in which troops fired on and killed hundreds of nationalist demonstrators, turned him to direct political protest. Within a year he was the dominant figure in the Indian National Congress, which he launched on a policy of noncooperation with the British in 1920-22. Although total noncooperation was abandoned, Gandhi continued civil disobedience, organizing protest marches against unpopular British measures, such as the salt tax (1930), and boycotts of British goods. Gandhi was repeatedly imprisoned by the British and resorted to hunger strikes as part of his civil disobedience. His final imprisonment came in 1942-44, after he had demanded total withdrawal of the British (the Quit India movement) during World War II. Gandhi also fought to improve the status of the lowest classes of society, the 'Untouchables', whom he called harijans (children of God). He believed in manual labor and simple living; he spun thread and wove cloth for his own garments and insisted that his followers do so, too. He disagreed with those who wanted India to industrialize. Gandhi was also tireless in trying to forge closer bonds between the Hindu majority and the numerous minorities of India, particularly the Muslims. His greatest failure, in fact, was his inability to dissuade Indian Muslims, led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, from creating a separate state, Pakistan. When India gained independence in 1947, after negotiations in which he was a principal participant, Gandhi opposed the partition of the subcontinent with such intensity that he launched a mass movement against it. Ironically, he was assassinated in Delhi on January 30, 1948, by a Hindu fanatic who mistakenly thought Gandhi's anti-partition sentiment were both pro-Muslim and pro-Pakistan. Gandhi's intellectual influence on Indians has been considerable. Some were attracted by his emphasis on political and economic decentralisation, others by his insistence on individual freedom, moral integrity, unity of means and ends, and social service; still others by his satyagraha and political activism. For some students of India, Gandhi's influence is responsible for its failure to throw up any genuinely radical political movement. For others, it cultivated a spirit of non-violence, encouraged the habits of collective self-help, and helped lay the foundations of a stable, morally committed and democratic government. Gandhi's ideas have also had a profound influence outside India, where they inspired non-violent activism and movements in favour of small-scale, self-sufficient communities living closer to nature and with greater sensitivity to their environment. Prominent among these are Martin Luther King in the United States and, more recently Nelson Mandela in South Africa. Search for old postings at:
Re: [AI] How to go to a particular mail in the inbox?
sir: press shift plus f 3 a dialog box will come type Email i d or name or subject you will get your desire mail. - Original Message - From: Shyam M. Sayanekar sayane...@gmail.com To: Access India accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 10:57 PM Subject: [AI] How to go to a particular mail in the inbox? Dear members, I am using Outlook Express and my query is pertaining to mails in the inbox of Outlook Express. It provides us option to sort the mails by date, subject or 'From'. But even if I sort the mails according to the sender, how do I go to a specific sender? For example, I have hundreds of mails in my inbox, I sorted them according to senders but how do I go to the mails sent by Harish? I think I have made the point clear. Yours, Professor Shyam M. Sayanekar Telephone: 0251-2438457 Mobile: +91 9920410788 Skype ID- sayanekar Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] Information Regarding Exemption to VI Teachers in Collegesfrom the Exam Evaluations
sir: as par my knowledge there is no such order exempting the visually impaired college teachers from participating in the centralized examination evaluation camps i think it is genaral Circular it may not effect you. no one can take action against you. because you are the blind - Original Message - From: Harikrishnan.G. harikoda...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 8:23 PM Subject: [AI] Information Regarding Exemption to VI Teachers in Collegesfrom the Exam Evaluations Respected Listers, I would like to know, is there any UGC Circular exempting the visually impaired college teachers from participating in the centralized examination evaluation camps. Here in the Kerala University, the university has issued directions mandating the teachers to participate in the evaluation camps with out failing. The university proposes to take strict actions against those teachers who are not attending the camps. Evaluation of examination papers is an essential part of the teaching job, which we all could accomplish with the help of a reader. In case of internal exams, I am often carrying it out from home with the help of some private readers. But how can we bring them to the centralized exam camps. Is there any specific rule indents to accommodate this special need of the VI teachers issued by UGC? Or has UGC exempted us altogether from this task? If So, from where we can get the relevant circular/ order? Please enlighten me on this issue. Would greatly appreciate your responses. With Regards. HarikrishnanG., Assistant Professor, Department of History, V.T.M.NSS College Dhanuvachapuram, Thiruvanandapuram. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] Fw: Delhi University waives fees for disabled students: Times of India
I gotThe following mail from unother list. Hence, copying it below. - Original Message - From: J L Kaul To: bsvermad...@gmail.com ; tandonruc...@yahoo.co.in ; za...@senseintindia.org ; rahul.bajaj1...@gmail.com ; deepak.healingto...@gmail.com ; nandin...@actionaid.org ; arpitha...@gmail.com ; adco@gmail.com ; bnk...@yahoo.co.in ; viwatn...@gmail.com ; srinivas.carn...@gmail.com ; elkeru...@t-online.de ; me...@cbmsaron.org ; shantisemwa...@gmail.com ; blinab...@sancharnet.in ; sgic...@vsnl.net ; mjyoth...@yahoo.com ; prasannapin...@gmail.com ; muthump2...@gmail.com ; muktake...@gmail.com ; global.techni...@gmail.com ; atulson...@gmail.com ; nppan...@gmail.com ; i...@aakriti360.com ; nfb.n...@gmail.com ; abha.khetar...@gmail.com ; anejamu...@gmail.com ; svarugh...@cbmsaron.org ; ma-ha-schu...@gmx.de ; iris.ongy...@cbm-i.org ; nirad...@cbmsaron.org ; m...@cbmsaron.org ; christiane.richa...@cbm.org ; kari.kl...@gmail.com ; blindrel...@gmail.com ; rkpandey_...@yahoo.com ; pankaj.jo...@nic.in ; prasad...@yahoo.co.in ; secy...@nic.in ; ma...@mcd.org.in ; v...@orientcraft-home.com ; jn.si...@roopauto.com ; pickybhan...@hotmail.com ; bnp...@gmail.com ; drunsi...@gmail.com ; hemasagar.panigr...@gmail.com ; chauhan.jagdi...@gmail.com ; principalm...@gmail.com ; contactshailendra.son...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 11:18 PM Subject: Fw: Delhi University waives fees for disabled students: Times of India Dear Colleagues, There is a good news for Delhi based college/university V.I. students appeared in the Times of India. With Kind Regards J. L. Kaul Secretary General All India Confederation of the Blind Mob: 9810684208 website: http://www.aicb.in/ - Forwarded Message - From: muthu selvi muthump2...@gmail.com To: Sent: Saturday, 15 September 2012 10:23 AM Subject: Delhi University waives fees for disabled students: Times of India Delhi University waives fees for disabled students (DU) has decided to waive fees and hostel charges for people with physical disabilities from this academic year. They will also get a 50% mess subsidy. It has been decided that students with physical disabilities enrolled in the faculties, departments, centres and institutions/colleges of DU will be exempted from payment of fees, excluding admission fee, subscription towards Delhi University Students' Union and the identity card fee. The other university fees include library fees, health centre fees, sports fees and university development fund fees. The university has also issued a circular to all the deans of faculties, heads of departments, principals of colleges and directors of centres to refund the fees already paid by these students for the academic session 2012-13 at the earliest, said deputy registrar (academic) Ram Dutt. This year, around 500 students with disabilities have enrolled in various undergraduate courses, the highest so far, although 1,500 undergraduate seats are reserved for them at DU. The decision is likely to benefit around 2,000 students at various undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including MPhil and PhD. TOI on August 28 first reported about DU planning a series of initiatives for physically disabled students. These included free transport, subsidized housing and provision of assistive devices to help students in their higher studies. All physically-handicapped category students who are residents of different hostels/halls of the university will also be exempted from payment of all fees and charges, except the refundable caution fees. Moreover, the university shall pay 50% of the mess fees as well, said Dutt. -- BE HAPPY AND MAKE OTHERS HAPPY M.Muthu Selvi Officer, Allahabad Bank and Secretary, All India Confederation of the blind. Email: muthump2...@gmail.com Skype: muthump2007 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] Victor Reader Stream from A I C B?
these are contact deatails of AICB All India Confederation of the Blind Near Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Hospital, Sector-5, Rohini, Delhi-110085. Phone - 91- 27054082 Fax - 91-27050915 Mobile - 091-09810684208 Email - aicbde...@yahoo.com Website - www.aicb.in - Original Message - From: Rishi Kewalramani rishi.kewalram...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 7:36 AM Subject: [AI] Victor Reader Stream from A I C B? Dear all, Is A I C B Delhi the authorized dealer of the Victor Stream reader in India? If yes, can someone provide me the contacts of A I C B Delhi so that I can get in touch with them for its purchase? Many thanks, Sincerely, Rishi. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] regarding booking from IRCTC
can the blind book E ticket on concession? if so could i know the proceessor to book E ticket. - Original Message - From: vivekananda vivekka...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:58 AM Subject: Re: [AI] regarding booking from IRCTC Dear Sandeep, in IRCTC website is not screen reader friendly many times jaws or NVDA does not speak fast. I always take help of sighted person. On 8/10/12, Akhilesh Malani malani.akhil...@gmail.com wrote: I too faced the same issue and I have written an E-mail to IRCTC mentioning the query but they gave me the same reason that the payment has been not received from bank and asked me to send the scanned image of my bank statement in which they have mentioned about the transection happened with IRCTC. - Original Message - From: Sandeep Gautam sandeepgautam.n...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 5:42 AM Subject: [AI] regarding booking from IRCTC Dear friends, I booked E ticket from IRCTC this morning. When I have entered all informations related to my debit card etc. (after going through all the procedure to book ticket) after pressing ok button, I got the page: session expired your session has been expired immediately I got the message from my bank through sms alert that the - amount has been debited from my account But I have not got any ticket related information. I logged in again. There is an option, detail of failed transactions. Here one transaction no. for the particular booking is shown. But, below, it was written, payment not receive by bank. So friends, how much time IRCTC takes to book ticket. or my transaction has failed now, what should I do next? Pls guide immediately. Waiting Sandeep G Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Thanks and Regards Akhilesh Malani Accessibility Manager And Software Tester Prakat Solutions 49, AMR Plaza, 18th Main HSR Layout 3rd Sector, Bangalore 560102, India www.prakat.com/ Live Like A King And Die Like A Legend. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 -- vivek, Ph.919868954833, New Delhi Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] doubt regarding railway consession form
yes you can take sine by rmp doctor or NGO - Original Message - From: Adhimoolam Vetrivel Murugan vadhimoo...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 5:46 PM Subject: [AI] doubt regarding railway consession form Hi, It is my understanding that railway consession forms can be signed by any registered medical doctor working in a government hospetals or head of institutions recognized by social welfare. So I am assuming that one doesn't necessarily have to go to an optemologist in order to get the form certified. Please clarify me regarding this and I have been out of touch for long time on this matter. Thanks. Vetri. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] Concession in flight.
sir: you can get 50% concession in actual fair - Original Message - From: habee...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:13 AM Subject: [AI] Concession in flight. Hello friends. Would like to know whether there is any concession for visually challenged in plane. Regards Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] daisy formated book needed
Hai to all, I will be great full to you if Please send me any daisy formatted book on English grammar to use with my mobile. at present I am using talking software mobile model C5 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] data needed regarding disabled persons in group A and B publicemployment
rani who is totle blind is working as laber officer in a. p. - Original Message - From: Shona Man shonam...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 9:55 PM Subject: [AI] data needed regarding disabled persons in group A and B publicemployment Hi friends I have to include into my research paper the statistical data regarding that how many disabled persons are on dignatory posts in India. I need spesifically participation of disabled women in public employment. Friends tell me if you know any individual instance of enjoying reputed post in public employment . Example of civil services is also appriciable, if any body could provide approximet number so far selected in civil services. -- LL.M candidate at Faculty of Law in University of Delhi Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] Telugu TTS uploaded
is it works with jaws? - Original Message - From: K. Nageswaraiah nageswara1...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:16 AM Subject: [AI] Telugu TTS uploaded Dear All, Telugu Linux and Telugu windows TTS versions are uploaded in source forge. Please download the TTS softwares from the following link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tts-indianlang/files/ For Telugu windows version, NVDA has to be downloaded separately and installed. This is a SAPI compatible voice. Your feedbacks and suggestions are welcome on the software. I'm pasting herewith excerpts from the general instructions and the 'Read Me' file for your convenience. The product has been tested with windows XP and windows 7. English words are read out using Telugu sound units. Tested with applications like notepad, wordprocessor, xls, browser. Please download NVDA 2010.1 version(nvda_2010.1_installer.exe) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvda/files/releases/2010.1/ Install NVDA from the downloaded executable. After installing NVDA, run setup_iiit_tel_fm.exe to install the Telugu sapi voice. In the DVD provided, this exe is self installable. After installing the Telugu sapi voice, start NVDA. By default English voice will come. 1. In NVDA Preference menu - Synthesizer, Select Microsoft Speech API (sapi) 2. In NVDA Preference menu - Voice settings, Select iiit_tel_fm as the voice. Please change the NVDA settings as per your convenience. General Instructions for using NVDA and ORCA for Indian Languages NVDA : * You can type in an Indian language using the Windows inscript keyboard layout * To add your language to the keyboard layout, do the following : * In Control Panel - Regional and Language Options, under the languages tab, there are two check boxes for installing files for complex scripts and for East Asian languages. Check mark both of them. You will need the the Windows CD to enable this option. * Click the “details” button in the language tab and add your language and its keyboard layout. * Click OK and Apply button. * In the task bar, a language icon will appear. EN stands for English, HI stands for Hindi, etc. * You can switch between the languages using Ctrl+shift or Alt+shift ( depends on the key combinations set in the “key settings” option in the language tab - details ) * To select the Indian language voice and festival synthesizer, do the following * Once NVDA is installed and running, right click on the NVDA icon on taskbar and select preferences menu. * Select Festival Speech Synthesis system in Preferences-Synthesizer * Select the voice in Preferences-voice settings * NVDA cds have a self installer, which installs the TTS and starts NVDA. * Please read the readme file for each language. ORCA : * For typing in Indian languages SCIM (Smart Common Input Method) or Inscript keyboard can be used * To install SCIM, follow the instructions in the below link, for Ubuntu based systems. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1505950 * Once SCIM is installed, a keyboard icon comes in the panel bar. On right clicking it, the language options come. You can select the particular language for typing. * For the inbuilt Inscript keyboard, install the required languages in language settings option. * ORCA cds have the voice and read me file. Festival and orca have to be installed by the user. ORCA and Festival come bundled with Linux distributions like ubuntu and fedora. The voice folder has to be copied to the correct place as stated in the readme file in the CD. * Please read the readme file for each language. If any clarifications required, please contact support-...@lantana.tenet.res.in Thanks Regards, Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] reservation in promotion to p w d
dear access Indians: I am pleased to inform to all of you that with relentless efforts of various disabled associations, the government of Andhra Pradesh has issued orders providing 3% reservation to p w d in promotions. I am pasting the orders below for your kind information. GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH ABSTRACT Department for Women, Children, Disabled Senior Citizens - Public Services - Providing reservation in promotions to the Differently Abled employees - Orders - Issued. DEPTT. FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN, DISABLED SENIOR CITIZENS(DW) G.O.Ms.No.42 Dated:19-10-2011. Read the following:- 1.G.O.Ms.No.115 WD CW L(WH-Desk) Dept, dt.30.7.1991. 2. G.O.Ms.No.145, WDCWL (WH.Desk) Dept.dt.28-8-1992. 3. G.O.Ms.No.5 Social Welfare (SW:ROR.I) Dept. dt.14-02-2003 4. G.O.Ms.No.21 Social Welfare (SW:ROR.I) Dept.dt. 18-03-2003 5. From the Commissioner, Disabled Welfare Dept, Hyd Lr. No.S.II/867/2004, dated 05.08.2004 and 05.01.2006 6. G.O.Ms.No.23 Deptt. for Women, Children, Disabled Sr. Citizens, dated 26-05-2011. *** O R D E R:- Orders have been issued in the G.O. 1st read above, duly providing trifurcation of the 3% reservation for each of the categories of disabled as mentioned there in. 2. Government, while taking into consideration the representations received for providing reservation in promotion in favour of disabled employees and the orders issued by Government of India vide O.M.No.36035/B.09-Estt.(SC.I), dated 20.11.1985, and as a measure of encouragement, hereby order implementation of 3% reservation in promotions to the disabled employees as follows:- (i) Reservation in promotion in favour of disabled employees is applicable to all services of State Government where the cadre strength is more than five; (ii)The existing 100-point roster already prescribed under Rule 22 of the Andhra Pradesh State and Subordinate Service Rules by the State Government shall be followed in case of promotions also i.e. 6th ,31st 56th; (iii) Reservation in promotion in favour of disabled employees shall be applicable to those candidates who are fully qualified and eligible to hold the post as per existing Rules and Guidelines; (iv) Reservation shall be implemented in favour of disabled employees in promotions to all the categories of posts in all State Government services except those exempted or may be exempted or as may be modified in pursuance of orders issued in the reference 6th read above. (v)(a)If any department considers that it is not possible to provide reservation in promotions for any category of Persons with Disabilities, keeping in view the nature of duties to be performed by the employees in that particular department, the department may seek partial or full exemption from such reservation in promotions, however such exemption or modification shall be decided by an Inter Departmental Committee as specified in the G.O. 6th read above; (b)Departments who wish to seek exemptions may do so within (90) days from the date of issue of these orders during which period the Rule of Reservation shall not apply to such departments for the posts identified by them for exemption. The orders issued by the Committee thereafter shall be final and further action taken accordingly. ...2. .2.. (vi) While preparing the panels of eligible candidates for promotion, the names of eligible disabled employees from the feeder category have to be shown against the roster points earmarked for them irrespective of their seniority position in the feeder category. However, if a disabled employee gets higher place in the eligible candidates list by virtue of their seniority in the feeder category he/she need not be adjusted in a lower position, which is earmarked for a disabled employee as per the roster system. Such roster point has to be filled up by moving up a disabled employee who is below in the seniority list in the feeder category. Filling up the roster points shall continue until the required percentage of disabled candidates is obtained. Once the required percentage is obtained by taking into account the candidate who are found in the list of the candidates fit for promotion on account of their seniority in the feeder category and those who are moved up to fill up the required roster point, further adjustment of disabled employees against the roster points has to be stopped. Unutilized roster points after the required disabled employee's percentage is met shall lapse. (vii) If required number of disabled employees is not available in the feeder category, the vacancies
Re: [AI] Information regarding NAB Delhi new sms mailing service
dear friends: I am pleased to inform to all of you that with relentless efforts of various disabled associations, the government of Andhra Pradesh has issued orders providing 3% reservation to p w d in promotions. I am pasting the orders below for your kind information. GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH ABSTRACT Department for Women, Children, Disabled Senior Citizens - Public Services - Providing reservation in promotions to the Differently Abled employees - Orders - Issued. DEPTT. FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN, DISABLED SENIOR CITIZENS(DW) G.O.Ms.No.42 Dated:19-10-2011. Read the following:- 1.G.O.Ms.No.115 WD CW L(WH-Desk) Dept, dt.30.7.1991. 2. G.O.Ms.No.145, WDCWL (WH.Desk) Dept.dt.28-8-1992. 3. G.O.Ms.No.5 Social Welfare (SW:ROR.I) Dept. dt.14-02-2003 4. G.O.Ms.No.21 Social Welfare (SW:ROR.I) Dept.dt. 18-03-2003 5. From the Commissioner, Disabled Welfare Dept, Hyd Lr. No.S.II/867/2004, dated 05.08.2004 and 05.01.2006 6. G.O.Ms.No.23 Deptt. for Women, Children, Disabled Sr. Citizens, dated 26-05-2011. *** O R D E R:- Orders have been issued in the G.O. 1st read above, duly providing trifurcation of the 3% reservation for each of the categories of disabled as mentioned there in. 2. Government, while taking into consideration the representations received for providing reservation in promotion in favour of disabled employees and the orders issued by Government of India vide O.M.No.36035/B.09-Estt.(SC.I), dated 20.11.1985, and as a measure of encouragement, hereby order implementation of 3% reservation in promotions to the disabled employees as follows:- (i) Reservation in promotion in favour of disabled employees is applicable to all services of State Government where the cadre strength is more than five; (ii)The existing 100-point roster already prescribed under Rule 22 of the Andhra Pradesh State and Subordinate Service Rules by the State Government shall be followed in case of promotions also i.e. 6th ,31st 56th; (iii) Reservation in promotion in favour of disabled employees shall be applicable to those candidates who are fully qualified and eligible to hold the post as per existing Rules and Guidelines; (iv) Reservation shall be implemented in favour of disabled employees in promotions to all the categories of posts in all State Government services except those exempted or may be exempted or as may be modified in pursuance of orders issued in the reference 6th read above. (v)(a)If any department considers that it is not possible to provide reservation in promotions for any category of Persons with Disabilities, keeping in view the nature of duties to be performed by the employees in that particular department, the department may seek partial or full exemption from such reservation in promotions, however such exemption or modification shall be decided by an Inter Departmental Committee as specified in the G.O. 6th read above; (b)Departments who wish to seek exemptions may do so within (90) days from the date of issue of these orders during which period the Rule of Reservation shall not apply to such departments for the posts identified by them for exemption. The orders issued by the Committee thereafter shall be final and further action taken accordingly. ...2. .2.. (vi) While preparing the panels of eligible candidates for promotion, the names of eligible disabled employees from the feeder category have to be shown against the roster points earmarked for them irrespective of their seniority position in the feeder category. However, if a disabled employee gets higher place in the eligible candidates list by virtue of their seniority in the feeder category he/she need not be adjusted in a lower position, which is earmarked for a disabled employee as per the roster system. Such roster point has to be filled up by moving up a disabled employee who is below in the seniority list in the feeder category. Filling up the roster points shall continue until the required percentage of disabled candidates is obtained. Once the required percentage is obtained by taking into account the candidate who are found in the list of the candidates fit for promotion on account of their seniority in the feeder category and those who are moved up to fill up the required roster point, further adjustment of disabled employees against the roster points has to be stopped. Unutilized roster points after the required disabled employee's percentage is met shall lapse. (vii) If required number of disabled employees is not available in the feeder category, the vacancies earmarked for disabled employees according to the roster will be carried forward as per orders issued from time to time
Re: [AI] ***SPAM*** Re: Request forCirculars regarding promotions
dear friends: I am pleased to inform to all of you that with relentless efforts of various disabled associations, the government of Andhra Pradesh has issued orders providing 3% reservation to p w d in promotions. I am pasting the orders below for your kind information. GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH ABSTRACT Department for Women, Children, Disabled Senior Citizens – Public Services – Providing reservation in promotions to the Differently Abled employees - Orders – Issued. DEPTT. FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN, DISABLED SENIOR CITIZENS(DW) G.O.Ms.No.42 Dated:19-10-2011. Read the following:- 1.G.O.Ms.No.115 WD CW L(WH-Desk) Dept, dt.30.7.1991. 2. G.O.Ms.No.145, WDCWL (WH.Desk) Dept.dt.28-8-1992. 3. G.O.Ms.No.5 Social Welfare (SW:ROR.I) Dept. dt.14-02-2003 4. G.O.Ms.No.21 Social Welfare (SW:ROR.I) Dept.dt. 18-03-2003 5. From the Commissioner, Disabled Welfare Dept, Hyd Lr. No.S.II/867/2004, dated 05.08.2004 and 05.01.2006 6. G.O.Ms.No.23 Deptt. for Women, Children, Disabled Sr. Citizens, dated 26-05-2011. *** O R D E R:- Orders have been issued in the G.O. 1st read above, duly providing trifurcation of the 3% reservation for each of the categories of disabled as mentioned there in. 2. Government, while taking into consideration the representations received for providing reservation in promotion in favour of disabled employees and the orders issued by Government of India vide O.M.No.36035/B.09-Estt.(SC.I), dated 20.11.1985, and as a measure of encouragement, hereby order implementation of 3% reservation in promotions to the disabled employees as follows:- (i) Reservation in promotion in favour of disabled employees is applicable to all services of State Government where the cadre strength is more than five; (ii)The existing 100-point roster already prescribed under Rule 22 of the Andhra Pradesh State and Subordinate Service Rules by the State Government shall be followed in case of promotions also i.e. 6th ,31st 56th; (iii) Reservation in promotion in favour of disabled employees shall be applicable to those candidates who are fully qualified and eligible to hold the post as per existing Rules and Guidelines; (iv) Reservation shall be implemented in favour of disabled employees in promotions to all the categories of posts in all State Government services except those exempted or may be exempted or as may be modified in pursuance of orders issued in the reference 6th read above. (v)(a)If any department considers that it is not possible to provide reservation in promotions for any category of Persons with Disabilities, keeping in view the nature of duties to be performed by the employees in that particular department, the department may seek partial or full exemption from such reservation in promotions, however such exemption or modification shall be decided by an Inter Departmental Committee as specified in the G.O. 6th read above; (b)Departments who wish to seek exemptions may do so within (90) days from the date of issue of these orders during which period the Rule of Reservation shall not apply to such departments for the posts identified by them for exemption. The orders issued by the Committee thereafter shall be final and further action taken accordingly. ...2… …2.. (vi) While preparing the panels of eligible candidates for promotion, the names of eligible disabled employees from the feeder category have to be shown against the roster points earmarked for them irrespective of their seniority position in the feeder category. However, if a disabled employee gets higher place in the eligible candidates list by virtue of their seniority in the feeder category he/she need not be adjusted in a lower position, which is earmarked for a disabled employee as per the roster system. Such roster point has to be filled up by moving up a disabled employee who is below in the seniority list in the feeder category. Filling up the roster points shall continue until the required percentage of disabled candidates is obtained. Once the required percentage is obtained by taking into account the candidate who are found in the list of the candidates fit for promotion on account of their seniority in the feeder category and those who are moved up to fill up the required roster point, further adjustment of disabled employees against the roster points has to be stopped. Unutilized roster points after the required disabled employee’s percentage is met shall lapse. (vii) If required number of disabled employees is not available in the feeder category, the vacancies earmarked for disabled employees according to the roster will be carried forward as per orders issued from time to time
Re: [AI] About Unemployment Allowance.
sir before 2006 the government of andhra pradesh has given unemployment allowance for disabled youth. from 2006 the government giving disabled pension to all pwd @ rs 500 per month (including children with disabilities - Original Message - From: Amiyo Biswas amiyo.bis...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 11:17 PM Subject: [AI] About Unemployment Allowance. Hello, Section 68 of the PWD Act of 1995 provides for unemployment allowance for disabled persons registered with an exchange for more than two years. I need the information regarding the states where this is being prvided and the amount provided etc. I searched the mails if we discussed it before. I did not get what I need. Please discuss it on the list. We should fight for it now. I am quoting below the provision from the Act: 68. Unemployment Allowance for Persons with Disabilities The appropriate Governments within the limits of their economic capacity and development shall by notification frame a scheme for payment of an unemployment allowance to persons with disabilities registered with the Special Employment Exchange for more than two years and who could not he placed in any gainful occupation. Best regards, Amiyo Biswas Cell: 91-9433464329 Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] Braille transcription
sir: the R.D.T. braille press 5th campus near pangal road s.v puram (post) rapthadu anantapur pin 515003. will give this kind of service last year i have taken some braille books from R.D.T. braille press please contact them on phone the no is 08554272035. - Original Message - From: David Sexton da...@rustytelephone.net To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 6:58 PM Subject: [AI] Braille transcription Hi, What companies or organizations exist in India who can transcribe printed text into braille? Do you know how much they charge for such a service? Thanks, David -- David Sexton +91 9400223351 Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] CBSE circular regarding practicals in Science-based subjects in classes XI and XII
sir: i need that circular could you please send it to me. - Original Message - From: Kartik Sawhney sawhney.kar...@gmail.com To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:34 AM Subject: [AI] CBSE circular regarding practicals in Science-based subjects in classes XI and XII Hi all, This is for your information that the CBSE has issued a circular wherein they have decided to administer separate question papers containing multiple choice questions in lieu of the practicals in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. The scheme will be operational w.e.f. 2012 class XI examinations and 2013 class XII Board Exams. Regards, -Kartik Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] doubts on jaws.
Dear friends, Nowadays the blind can easily operative computer on par with sighted with the help of JAWS and N V D A etc. However I had doubts about these software's. They are 1. Can these software's support the blind to learn JAWA, ORACLE,C,C++ etc. 2. I had opened command prompt but JAWS is not supporting whether it supports or not, can you suggest any alternative? 3. We can easily install JAWS software because we hear the audio instructions by that software. Let me know whether exists any operation system which can instruct us orally white. They are installed. Thanks and regards k. srinivas 09490589531 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] info regarding white cane day
Please find an article regarding white cane day WHITE STICK AS SYMBOL OF BLINDNESS - HISTORY (From RNIB reference library information file) An Englishman and a Frenchwoman both claim to have originated the idea. 1921 - James Biggs of Bristol (as he claims in New Beacon article, Dec. 1937, pp. 320/321) thought of idea of painting his stick white -- wrote to various institutions, Chief Constables, newspapers, magazines, etc... 1930 - First reference in New Beacon (December, p. 265) to white stick - In Paris, the Prefect of Police is supporting the idea that blind pedestrians shall carry white sticks 1931 - February - Mlle Guilly d'Herbemont, with the assistance of one of the editors of l'Echo de Paris launched national white stick movement in France. 1931 - Taken up by British Press - West Ham Rotary Club's offer to supply white sticks to blind people in the area accepted - in May, the BBC broadcast the suggestion that all blind persons should be provided with a white stick, which should be nationally recognised by the public 1932 - National Institute for the Blind started stocking and selling white sticks WHITE CANE SAFETY DAY By provision of P.L. 88-628, 88th Congress, 2d Session, October 15 to be proclaimed each year by the President of the United States as White Cane Safety Day. First such proclamation issued by Lyndon B. Johnson on October 6, 1964. (Ref.: NOB, Dec. 1964, 58 (10), 332.) October 15, 1970 was declared International White Cane Safety Day for the first time by the President of the International Federation of the Blind. This date was adopted at the first quinquennial convention of the IFB, held in Colombo on October 4, 1969. (Ref.: Braille International, July 1971, 4(2), 14-18.) First celebrated in United Kingdom 15 October 1979. (Ref.: New Beacon, September 1979, 63(749), 232.) ** (Viewpoint, June 1991) The White Cane - A Commemoration by Dr. A Mutter (Editor's note) The white cane is now recognised as the blind person's mobility aid the world over. Ever since US President Lyndon S. Johnson first proclaimed it in 1964, White Cane Day has become the day of the year to publicise the needs and achievements of blind people everywhere. What follows is an appreciation of Peguilly d'Herbemont, the French woman who was responsible for introducing the white cane 60 years ago. She was a lady of French high society who devoted much of her time and fortune to the welfare of the blind. The writer of the article, himself blind, taught for a time in the mid-30s at Worcester College for the Blind, later joining the German Diplomatic Service and finishing up as First Secretary to the German Legation in Berne, Switzerland. The article is reproduced by kind permission of the German Federation of the Blind, in whose organ it first appeared in January of this year. It is based on a book commemorating the originator of the white cane who died in her 92nd year, on 28th February 1980, by Mireille Oblin-Briere who met our heroine towards the end of her long life. She was so moved by her story that she set it down before her memories faded altogether and her papers and records were lost to the world. Peguilly d'Herbemont was born on 25th June 1888 into an old French noble family of the same name. In her youth she led the conventional and protected existence, devoid of great activity, of a girl from a good family, an existence reminiscent of the life of the aristocracy before the French Revolution. She never visited a public school, but was educated by German and English governesses and convent sisters. Her movements were restricted and were mainly confined to the family positions in Paris and Belgium, but she spent most of her time at the castle of Charmois not far from Verdun. A lyrical strain in her nature led her to write quite sensitive poetry, reminiscent of Verlaine. Her biographer sees their origin in a secret love affair which was never revealed. In time, this became subsumed by a passionate love of nature and the sympathy to her less favoured fellow human beings. In the process of helping individual blind people across the road, Mademoiselle d'Herbemont was made aware by narrow scrapes which almost led to accidents, of the precarious situation of the visually impaired brought about by the steadily increasing traffic on the roads. She first spoke about measures to protect the blind against street hazards to her mother in 1930, but she was of the opinion that it was unfit for a lady of good society to create a public outcry and advised her to stick to the transcription of books, a popular pastime of ladies of rank at the time. But the idea did not leave her. The urgent wish to encourage the integration of the blind into society by providing them with a means of moving about more freely without endangering others, and at the same time attracting the attention of passers-by ready to offer assistance,
Re: [AI] Request forCirculars regarding promotions
according to the same orders the blind are also eligible to get automatic advancement scheme i e 1. special promotion post scale 1 A after 12 years 2. special promotion post scale 2 after 24 years - Original Message - From: padmanabham padmanabam.mu...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Request forCirculars regarding promotions Hello naveen, in 2008, the government of andhra pradesh has issued a go excempting the blind persons from passing the departmental tests. you can download the same from the following link. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2897041/GO%20pertaining%20to%20excemption%20from%20deptal%20tests.pdf - Original Message - From: naveen kumar naveenkumar...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 7:02 PM Subject: [AI] Request forCirculars regarding promotions Hi access Indian friends, Good evening to one and all. I am writing this mail to you, for one of my friends He is working as a school assistant in government of Andhra Pradesh. He has 12 years experience in teaching. As for government rules, they have to write departmental test for promotion Are there any exemptions for blinds to get promotions? If you have any circulars, or G.O’S please upload for him. I am waiting for your positive response.- -, A. NAVEEN KUMAR, I.M.A. SOCIAL SCIENCES, ROOM N.O. 013, MENS HOSTEL [I], UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD, GACHI BOWLI, HYDERABAD. 500046. MOBILE: 9493471765 EMAIL ID: naveenkumar...@gmail.com skype: naveenkumarhcu Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
Re: [AI] Historic Judgement Fw:
is there any positive orders issued by the government? if so please upload the same for information.? It would great by help to pressure our state govt. for providing such reservation for PWD in promotions. - Original Message - From: u. srinivasan rusva...@gmail.com To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:36 AM Subject: [AI] Historic Judgement Fw: - Original Message - From: R. MURALIDHAR To: lawsunyog...@yahoo.co.in Cc: u. srinivasan ; tseka...@yahoo.com Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:19 PM Sirs, Please read this historical judgement. CWP No. 11467 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 11467 of 2010 Date of Decision: September 06, 2010 Disabled Persons Association ..Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and another .. Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Mukul Mudgal, Chief Justice Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ajay Tewari Present: Mr. Gurminder Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms.Madhu Dayal, Addl. AG, Punjab. 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Mukul Mudgal, CJ. By this petition, which has been filed as a PIL, the petitioner has prayed for issuance of directions to the respondent-State to grant reservation to the extent of 3% to physically handicapped persons and appointment to public posts by way of direct recruitment as also promotion to categories and groups as per the provisions of The Persons with Disabilities(Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. CWP No. 11467 of 2010 2 It may be mentioned here that in CWP No. 5809 of 2010 decided on 24.05.2010 a Division Bench of this Court had allowed a similar petition in respect of promotion to Group 'C' and 'D' posts. It was also not disputed that 3 % reservation is already being given and direct recruitment in Groups 'A', 'B', 'C', and 'D' services as per letter dated 2.5.97(Annexure P-1). Thus the only dispute which remains is with regard to promotion to Group 'A' and 'B' posts. In yet another case bearing CWP No. 12741 of 2009 decided on 18. 3.2010, Viklang Sangh Haryana v. State of Haryana and others, in relation to the State of Haryana this Court held as follows: In view of the above position of law laid down by the Hon'ble supreme court, the Court must adopt a liberal interpretation which advances the achievement of the object of the Act. The interpretation which is sought to be suggested by the State for denying reservation of 3% in the promotional avenues would obviously defeat the object of the Act. In the written statement filed by the respondent-State of Punjab these facts have not been disputed. It is, however, pleaded that Government of India has not provided reservation by way of promotion in Group 'A' and 'B' services. In this context in the case of Viklang Sangh Haryana (supra) this Court had found as follows: Even the Government of India, through the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances Pension, Department of Personnel Training,New Delhi has reserved posts for the handicapped in departmental promotions to the extent of 3%. the information supplied vide letter dated December 05, 2007 to the petitioner by the aforesaid Ministry is to the following effect: (i) Reservation for SC candidates in departmental promotion quota is 15% CWP No. 11467 of 2010 3 (ii)There is no reservation for OBC candidates in departmental promotion quota (iii)Reservation for physically Handicapped quota is 3% (iv) x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x In this view of the matter the assertion of the State of Punjab that there is no reservation provided by the Government of India for promotion to Group 'A' and 'B' services cannot be accepted. In the circumstances this writ petition is allowed and a direction is issued to the respondent-State of Punjab to keep 3% posts reserved for promotion for the disabled in Group 'A' and 'B' posts also and to issue necessary promotion orders not later than six months from today. (MUKUL MUDGAL) CHIEF JUSTICE (AJAY TEWARI) JUDGE September 06, 2010 sunita Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
[AI] reservation in promotions to PWD reg
Dear friends, We aware that the Govt. of India is giving 3% reservation to the PWD in promotions. I would like to know whether any state Govt. also giving such reservation in promotions to PWD. If so could you please upload the relevant Govt. orders for information? It would great by help to pressure our state govt. for providing such reservation for PWD in promotions. Thanks and regards k. srinivas 09490589531 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in 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
