thought-provoking write up indeed. Thanks for sharing. In fact, the concern raised that of many eligible and talented people being left out from the race is worth-pondering. Its an injustice that majority of people been denied systematic access to advertisement have no one to approach for the grievance redressal. I've been maintaining for long that the disability department of the government of India should leverage state-owned media such as radio/television to publicise its schemes and announcements. However we are yet to see this happening. Some of the NGOs getting funds from the government are also liable for not dissiminating the info to the people residing in the countryside. Moreover there are other serious issues related to awards which need to be discussed and debated. 1. Lets do a research and dig out the deeper faultlines of 3 December awards which dates back to 1999-2000 perhaps. 2. Its important to know how nominations are studied and committees are constituted to select the awardees we should also know who are the members who have been doing this honor for years? 3. Which states/regions/NGOs have been given awards more than once over the years and which regions are less represented. 4. With due respect to many award-winners for their exemplary accomplishments, I have a feeling that there is patronage politics played out while selecting some of the awardees; that's why these awards are losing their shin. And to everybody's shock, this year's best state award goes to none other than Uttar Pradesh!
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sruti disAbility Rights Centre <sruti.d...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:19:10 +0530 Subject: {Disability Studies India} Thoughts before 3rd December To: disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com Dear friends, With 3rd December just round the corner, here's an article I wrote on Government awards for the disabled to ponder about some other forms of intolerance in these days of award-wapsi. http://varta2013.blogspot.in/2015/11/rewarding-awards.html Looking forward to your comments. Shampa Sengupta -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Disability Studies India" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to disability-studies-india+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to disability-studies-in...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/disability-studies-india. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU 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..