Hi pamnani, thankyou for the detail information please place the copies of the relevant orders in your next mail so that i can take up the matter with the Karnataka government and try to solve the problems visually impaired in our state in my capisity of capasity of the president of Bharatiya welfare association for the blind regards dattu agarwal. e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile 9886678744
pamnani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "pamnani" To: "Keshav Kumar" Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 07:30 Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. > Let me explain this matter in detail > In 2002 ILS a law college in Pune filed a public interest litigation > against the Maharashtra Government for implementation of the PWD Act. this > Petition is numbered as 70 of 2002. In pursuance of this Petition we got > Low floor buses etc. This is an all inclusive Petition. > Subsequently the National Federation of the Blind, Maharshtra Unit filed > Petition No. 129 of 2003 for identification of jobs for the blind etc. > Both these Petitions have been heard together so there are concurrent > orders in both these matters. > I will now explain what has been happening on the issue of jobs for the > visually impaired. > Over the last 3 years various departments of the Maharshtra Government > have been identifying jobs for the disabled.There are about 17 such lists > and there matching Government Resolutions. While identifying the jobs and > creating these lists an additional category was created named"Partially > Sighted" within the broad category of visually impaired. So what started > happening was that the departments started identifying jobs for the > totally blind, low vision, partially sighted. Obviously more jobs were > available for the Partially sighted as compared to those for the blind. > However after looking at nearly all those 17 lists I find that about 17 > jobs have been identified for the blind. This is nearly the same as those > in the Central list. Therefore for the limited issue and for the time > being I am going to say the identification process is OK. I will come back > to this issue later. > However the creating of a 3rd category in the 1% for the visually impaired > is a problem. > Now for the next step the Maharashtra Government did not fill up these > jobs so the Court hadd to intervene. On 7 September 2006 Court ordered > stay of all other recruitments until the disabled backlog was completed > and the process should be completed in 3 months. The Petitions are still > alive and the matters keep coming up on Board for hearing. The government > started issuing advertisements for walk in interviews and for written > applications. Now it has come as a big shock that most of the posts being > advertised are for the partially sighted and not for the blind or the low > visioned. > The problem is that the advertisements are more or less in line with the > jobs identified over the years so the advertisements are really not bad in > law in most cases. > Some totally blind friends approached me and I have filed an intervention > application in Petition No. 129 of 2003challenging some of the > advertisements which are not in line with the identified jobs and also > challenged the creation of Partially Sighted category. > the matter was on board yesterday however it did not reach but we > mentioned it at 3 pm but the Court said" we can remedy any wrong being > done, come back after the vacations". So here we are. > Now we will either have to file a fresh affidavit stating that the > appointments have to be stopped or the totally blind should be interviewed > also. There is a Minutes of meeting dated 26 September which states that > "people suffering from a higher degree of disability should be preferred"- > this might help if the totally blind are allowed to give the interviews. > So the next 2 weeks will be spent in collecting data of discrimination > etc. > I will not go into further detail at this stage. I will copy the order of > 7 September 2006 in Petition no. 70 of 2006 in another mail. If you want > the other orders you will have to go on to the nic site or soon to the > iway site. > Kanchan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keshav Kumar" > To: "Pamnani" ; > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 23:55 > Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. > > >> Hello! >> >> one copy to me also. >> thanks in advance. >> >> regards, >> Keshav. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Pamnani" >> To: >> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:29 PM >> Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. >> >> >>> Hi, I will send it to you. Its in PDF however we are intervening >>> tomorrow so >>> will have more news by day after. >>> Kanchan Pamnani >>> Advocate & Solicitor >>> 9, Suleman Chambers, >>> Battery Street, Colaba, >>> Mumbai - 400 039. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Pranay Gadodia" >>> To: >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:10 PM >>> Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. >>> >>> >>>> Hi Chandrashekar and others, >>>> Can somebody please send me a e-text or scanned copy of this >>>> Maharashtra >>>> High court judgement? >>>> >>>> thanks and best wishes, >>>> >>>> Pranay Gadodia, >>>> Content Research Officer, >>>> Score Foundation. >>>> 125B, Shahpur Jat, >>>> New Delhi - 110 049 >>>> INDIA. >>>> >>>> Phone: +91 - 11 - 2649 4582/81 >>>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> Website: www.eyeway.org >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "chandrashekhar kulkarni" >>>> To: >>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:33 PM >>>> Subject: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. >>>> >>>> >>>> Friends, >>>> First of all I wish aHappy and Prosperous Divali. >>>> Recently as per High Court it has become binding on Maharashtra Govt. >>>> to >>>> recruit handicapped to fill up the backlog of reservation. But in >>>> almost >>>> 80% >>>> of ads only partially sighted with 40% of vision are eligible to apply. >>>> Totally blind because of this get very much frustrated. Further in >>>> reality >>>> the jobs are given to those who really do not come under the catagory >>>> of >>>> v.h. but by hook or crook manage to get a Dr's certificate. I feel the >>>> categorisation of v.h. done in most of eye hospitals is unscientific. A >>>> person seeking a certificate there in most of the cases is just asked >>>> to >>>> identify the number of fingers and if a person says he cannot see the >>>> fingers he is given a totally blind person certificate and the same >>>> person >>>> if partially sighted after some days manages to get a partially blind >>>> certificate with the result the same person has both the certificates. >>>> Isn't >>>> it rediculous? But because of this totally blind persons, in spite of >>>> having >>>> the ability is unable to get a >>>> job. >>>> I feel something needs to be done about this. >>>> Sincerely, >>>> C. B. 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