Thats a great step forward. Many congratulations to AICB and specially to Selvi. You are star Selvi.
Thanks and warm regards, Rahul. On 11/9/15, AICB <aicbdelhi.110...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Anil Aneja <anil.an...@gmail.com> > To: 'Muthu Selvi' <muthump2...@gmail.com> > Cc: 'J. L. Kaul' <aicbde...@yahoo.com> > Sent: Monday, 9 November 2015 7:57 AM > Subject: Draft for access India and media regarding pandiyan grama bank. > > As you may be aware that for many years now, AICB has been striving > hard to augment employment opportunities for the visually impaired in > all sectors, but particularly in the banking sector. It was our case > against the Punjab National Bank, way back in 1999 which paved the way > for many visually impaired persons to be appointed as officers in > various banks. A recent initiative of ours relates to creating > employment opportunities for the blind and the low vision in a large > segment of banks, called the regional rural banks where > non-reservation of vacancies for the visually impaired often goes > unnoticed. These banks are set up under a separate Act and advertise a > large number of vacancies, and often ignore the visually impaired. As > a number of complaints had been received by us in this respect, AICB > recently filed an Public Interest Litigation against one such bank in > Tamil Nadu, the Pandiyan Grama Bank which had advertised 180 vacancies > in the clerical cadre and 214 vacancies in the officer scale 1 cadre, > but not provided any reservation for the visually impaired. Our > Secretary, Ms. Muthu Selvi, herself a bank officer, worked hard on > this case and even argued the matter in the Madras High Court along > with our lawyers. It was a difficult cased for many reasons. First, > for nearly 36 years, this bank has not employed any blind person and > 2, by the time the case came up for the first hearing, the results had > already been declared. But we continued to press. The result is there > for all to see: the Madras High Court directed the bank to reserve > four vacancies for the visually impaired and appoint eligible and > available persons. Two visually impaired persons have already received > their appointment orders. The significance of this case rests in the > fact that, due to this judgment, now no regional rural bank will be > able to ignore reservation provisions for the visually impaired in its > recruitments. This in turn will result in a large number of vacancies > being available for the visually impaired because, as regional rural > banks often do not provide reservations for the visually impaired, > there would be a huge backlog. Also, now more visually impaired > persons will be seen working in banks in the rural areas which, in > turn will lead to more inclusion and sensitization. In case you come > across any such cases of discrimination against the blind, please feel > free to contact us. > Dr. Anil K. Aneja.Vice President, 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.. > -- Rahul Kelapure +91 9833349929 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..
