Respected bankers, in its long march VIBEWA is stepping into second year. The first year was spent to organize and establish the common platform for visually impaired banking and finance employees. our own website www.vibewa.org was developed, contacts were established with Banking and financial institutions and some basic information was collected through RTI. To achieve our objective of equal opportunity and dignity in work place, our issues and demands are to be placed before appropriate authorities and strong negotiations have to be carried out. For this we need to prepare charter containing number of VI bankers, their working conditions, challenges faced by them, administrative and technical solutions to resolve them , existing government guidelines, new guidelines that are to be passed etc. For this, some basic information is collected through RTI. However, we have to hear direct lived experiences of the VI employees. To collect this a detailed survey is being conducted among VI bankers. A survey format is designed and is available in the link: http://www.vibewa.org/vibewa-task-force-survey/
Most of us might be knowing the guidelines issued by D O P T department of personal and training. It was issued on 31st march 2014 for all the government sectors Vibewa has taken initiation to extend the same to banking sectors on november 12th 2014. It includes certain important provisions for persons with disabilities. 1. providing basic facilities 2. identifying suitable jobs 3. providing assestive devises 4. providing training [ induction, special, pre promotional, periodical] 5. allow to write exams with the help of scribe and extra 20 minutes of time per hour in exams 6. providing audio instructions and brail displays 7. exemption from transfers on promotion and exemption from rotien transfers 8. appoint a liason officer 9. establish a grievence addressel cell 10. special casual leave [4] in addition to 12 c l 11. special casual leave [10] to attend seminars, workshops for our growth and development We also have circulars issued by RBI AND IBA which instructs all the public secgtor banks to provide all the facilities for visually challenged persons like 1. account 2. a t m 3. I n b 4. cheque book 5. lockers 6. loans But very well known fact is that, most of the banks are not following the given guidelines. Taking all these points into consideration, Vibewa has taken a step forward to extract the status of visually challenged banker individually, And Consolidate the same And the Report will be used for redressal. We would assure that personal details and information provided by you is very highly confidential and will be used for a good cause. We request all the Visually challenged employees of banking and financial institutions to participate in the survey. We request each one of you to create awareness among all the VIBs to participate in the survey. The survey has started from September 21st 2015 And Will be available till October 20th 2015. Note*** The persons who have filled the survey form from September 22nd to September 25th 2015 should submit again, As the data is not updated due to server issues. The participants would receive a mail after successful submition of the form as a conformation. So, dear VI Banking and finance employees, here is the chance: do come up with your true problems and solutions and make a difference. It does not matter, whether you are a member of VIBEWA, or VIB-India or not. If you are working in a bank or financial institution and happen to be blind or low vision, please fill in the survey. The data would be kept strictly confidential and would only be used in a aggregated manner to know the status of work conditions in the banks for VI. We thank all the persons who have already participated in the survey. We have 250 participants till now. But we have only one or two respondents from some banks like Uco bank, Dena bank, Bank of maharashtra, I d b i, Indian bank, Corporation bank, Syndicate bank, Vijaya bank, S b b j, S b p, S b m, S b t, And Central bank of india. Kindly spread a word if you have already participated. Let us join hands for a good initiation. Vibewa team. Smiling is a part of life. But smiling in all the situations is an art of life. Thanks and Regards, Mrs. Surya Jyothi Praneeth, CCT, SBH, RC Puram, Medak, Telangana. Sent from my I PHONE. Smiling is a part of life. But smiling in all the situations is an art of life. Thanks and Regards, Mrs. Surya Jyothi Praneeth, CCT, SBH, RC Puram, Medak, Telangana. Sent from my I 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..