Exactly Avichal!
very well said, even I wanted to come to these points.
The language of such groups is absolutely nonacceptable.
These people even don't know the difference between "Atmanirbhar" and
"Atma". I also don't find anything wrong using the word Divyang. and I can
vouch for many disabled who love the word Divyang in place of Vikalang.
In short, they don't even know what to say where and when. or to be precise,
they say things
selectively. This is not going to do anything good for the sector as whole!
I feel there is no
need even to praise the government, only admitting the facts would suffice
here.
But the way things are discussed by such organisations, it seems that they
say things for the
sake of saying. I don't know which masters are they trying to please instead
of working
honestly for the cause of Divyangjan.
They support the Farmers' protest using name of disabled (everybody knows
what happened on Red Fort on 26th of January), they come to the help of
criminals (Sorry, sorry, Hard-core
criminals) charged by NIA like Stan Swami, they condemn the statement of
Khushbu Sundar on some frivolous grounds because she leaves the Congress and
join the BJP and smartly ignore the same kind of statements of people like
Salman Khurshid and others because maybe these people are perfect to suit
the agenda of such groups who want to insist anything on in the sweet name
of disabled!
is this the work of/and/for disability? I even heard that they signed the
petition exhibiting
solidarity with people showing mercy to killers of many inocent countrymen
(Yes, I am referring
to Yakoob Menon) to Rashtrapati of India.
for people like me and all members (around 100 blind Karyakartas of Samarth
Bharat Manch from
various parts of India) all these activities comes under antisocial
catagory. not only this,
for us, all such things could easily be classified as anti-india activities.
I believe there
shouldn't be any reason for disagreeing here with all that is said.
Asking here the question to NPRD for the sake of curiosity, nothing more
nothing less, and yes,
you are free not to answer as well, because I wasn't here on the list that
time, what kind of
support you provided to Sadhvi Pragya and Kernal Purohit, because Sadhvi did
bound to
wheelchair and Mr. Purohit became almost disabled by the police treatment.
entire country saw their condition. I hope you mustn't have remembered
humanity or disability then. or you did not have any helping hand at that
time.
I'm not saying it was your fault but why then such huge love and support for
Yakoob Menon, Stan
Swami and Farmers' agitation?
Concisely, they are doing the well-planned work. Cause of disabled is just
the tag they have
been carrying, their actual purpose is to push the ideological propaganda as
adeptly described
by Avichal. I myself could not find any other appropriate word for such
henous work and that is
in the name of disability. nothing could be worse than this!
the government of India has provided ten months exemption to the disabled
employees working not
only with the central government but also in PSUs and many more offices. The
government even
advise these offices to allot such disabled employees proper work from home
opportunities wherever possible. Sadly but factually, there were some who
did take undue advantage of this
exemption. But NPRD and such people must not be aware of this! right?
in short, they are free to create and work with any narrative and
agenda/propaganda, set forth
by them but why to do all this in the name of disabled? or to say it
properly, drag the
disability to quench their own ideologicaal thirst?
there was time when such activism in any name could easily be digested, but
the things have changed now, you just cannot take people for granted by
doing any agitation using shield of disability. this is nothing but carrying
and continuing with their business (Dhandha, as they correctly say in Hindi)
by encashing disability and/or people with disability everywhere.
Sorry for the longish mail.
but someone someday had to write this all.
Regards
Vande Mataram
Sandesh
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From: "Avichal Bhatnagar" <coolavic...@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2021 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] Disabled Cold Shouldered in Budget
The bitter fact is that we, the disabled, aren't a votebank; hence we
will be on nobody's priority list.
However, another fact which we all must clearly understand is that we
can achieve anything only via negotiations as we fail to make any
electoral impact.
Yes, the government must be made aware about the issues of the
disabled, but I vehemently disagree from the stand of NPRD as since
the beginning of 2014, I haven't found this organization ever praising
the government for anything.
This proves that they work with a partisan agenda and have nefarious
designs.
I can prove my point by pointing to the selective mails of NPRD posted here.
We mustn't forget that the government of India has not only provided
free ration for many months to the needy disabled but has also given
ten months exemption to the disabled employees working with the
central government.
So, we must stick to our demands and have no compromise on the welfare
of our community, but on the other hand we must also be aware about
insidious groups trying to push their ideological propaganda in the
name of disability activism.
On 2/1/21, anirudh rao <personalanir...@gmail.com> wrote:
yes this has been the long demand.
but, nothing can be accepted from the government that speaks much and acts
less.
On 2/1/21, Tanmay Srivastava <tanmaysri1...@gmail.com> wrote:
According to me now disability is not the subject of welfare.
Now it should not be the part of ministry of social justice and
empowerment.
It is the high time to make aware the government that government should
create separate ministry for the empowerment of people with disabilities.
Looking forward to everyone's response.
On Mon 1 Feb, 2021, 4:26 PM National Platform For The Rights of the
Disabled, <nprd...@gmail.com> wrote:
February 1, 2021
*Press Statement*
The National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) has issued
the
following statement:
*Union Budget: Disabled Cold Shouldered*
The NPRD lodges its strong protest at the substantial reduction in
budgetary support to the Department of Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities. Even the meagre and inadequate Rs. 1325.39 estimated last
time, has been further reduced to Rs. 1171.77 crores this time.
This substantial reduction of nearly 12 per cent will adversely impact
various schemes and programmes that are being undertaken by the
department. The
“Scheme for Implementation for Persons with Disabilities Act” sees a cut
in
its allocation from Rs. 251.50 to Rs. 209.77 crores. The National Trust
which caters to persons with autism, cerebral palsy, intellectual
disabilities etc. is also witnessing lesser budgetary support. It has
been reduced from Rs. 39.50 to Rs. 30.00 crore. Even allocations to the
National Programme for Prevention of Blindness have been reduced by
nearly
50 per cent from Rs. 20.00 to Rs. 10.50 crores as compared to last year.
Grant in aid to state governments have also been reduced substantially.
When more disabled people are joining the ranks of the unemployed, it
would have been prudent to enhance allocations for the National
Handicapped
Finance and Development Corporation, to enable it to provide loans to
small
businesses set up by disabled people. On the contrary budgetary support
to
the NHFDC has been drastically reduced from Rs. 41 crore provisioned in
the
2019-20 budget to a mere Rs. 0.01 crore this time. The announcements
made
to vigorously pursue privatization of various public sector undertakings
will adversely impact the disabled also. With the government unrelenting
on
the demand to extend reservations to the private sector, shrinking
employment avenues in the government sector will see the ranks of the
unemployed disabled bourgeoning.
The total expenditure earmarked for the national programmes for welfare
of
persons with disabilities has been reduced from Rs. 655 to Rs. 584
crores.
The
total towards schemes/projects has been reduced from Rs. 780.00 to Rs.
709.77 crores, this time. The total expenditure towards Social security
&
welfare has seen a reduction from Rs. 1126.79 to Rs. 988.59. Disability
pension continues to be stagnant at Rs. 300 for the past many years.
In the pandemic situation, which saw a huge escalation in the number of
mental health cases, the allocations made towards mental health displays
the total lack of acknowledgement of the crisis. Allocations to the
National Mental Health Programme remains constant at Rs. 40.00 crore. No
support has been earmarked for the National Institute of Mental Health &
Research for the last two years. However, unlike last time, there has
been
a slight increase in allocations to the National Institute of Mental
Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru and the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoli
Regional Institute of Mental Health, Tezpur.
What is even more glaring is the complete omission of flagship programme
started by this government the *Accessible India* campaign.
The government remains content with bestowing divine status and a label
of
*divyang,
*even while pursuing policies that confine disabled citizens to the
margins. Displaying complete indifference, during the entire two-hour
long
rhetoric filled speech by the Finance Minister, not once did she refer
to
disabled persons. Disabled *atmas* don’t matter. In earlier budgets, the
disabled were disregarded or neglected. This time they have been cold
shouldered. This is deplorable. The NPRD calls upon the disabled
community
to rise in unison and protest this disabled-unfriendly budget.
*(Muralidharan)*
*General Secretary*
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