Dear Friends,
As you may be aware that in the month of July 2009 the above mentioned department of government of Karnataka called for the applications for the 4900 vacancies of primary school teachers. But through a special mention in the application form the visually challenged persons had been bared to apply for these jobs. Reacting to this states sponsored discrimination with the blind in public employment, the NFB, Karnataka filed an PIL in Karnataka high court in month of September 2009.In its interim judgement of 29-09-2009 the honourable high court directed the concerned department to keep at least 49 post vacant until the final disposal of said petition and that to accept the applications of the eligible and interested visually challenged candidates for these jobs. Since then the federation has been in process to motivate the qualified blind candidates for applying for these job. In this process some instances of the harassment by district public instruction offices in providing and accepting the application forms have been brought to the notice of the federation. As a solution of such compliance federation has prepared its own application forms to make available to the eligible candidates and advised them to send the filled up application forms to their concerned district public instruction offices through the registered post with A.D and submit a copy of the same to the federation for producing in high court at the time of next hearing. In this context all eligible and interested access Indian friends are also requested to proceed in line with the advice of the federation at the earliest. You are also requested to inform and motivate your other friends as widely as possible. With regards, Gautam Prakash Agarwal, President, National Federation of the Blind, Karnataka Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm 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
