Hi Kanchan, you never wrote to me. Further, such database has to be updated from time-to-time. Thanking you, Professor Shyam M. Sayanekar ----- Original Message ----- From: "pamnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:40 PM Subject: [AI] Database
> About a year ago XRCVC had emailed a form on accessindia requesting > members to complete the same with their respective information but hardly > any one had replied. > I have personally taken up this project. > For the last 2 months I have been writing to many of you personally > requesting you to send your information in but hardly any of you have > bothered. I had decided to ask a few members at a time so that I could > have personal interaction and as yu do not seem to like to respond to > general mails. > It is shocking that you have not understood the need for a database . > > There are many reasons for wanting to have a consolidated online database > and I will just explain a few. > > 1. When job mapping is done at companies the facilitator has an all India > reference and it is easier to convince the companies. > 2. When parents of visually challenged and the newly visually challenged > visit Associations for help they are generally scared and disheartened by > the disability. These organisations could use the database to increase the > confidence levels. Its like when I was going blind I thought for a little > while that I would never be able to continue with my career till I saw > Deepak Motiwala a blind senior Solicitor doing well in his career. I was > lucky that I did not have difficulty finding Deepak's name or address what > would have happened had he been from another city and I hadnt been told > about him. This database will be online and will be useful to both > organisations working for the welfare of the visually challenged and the > challenged themselves. > 3. About a month ago Amar Jain had asked on accessindia, the names of > Visually challenged lawyers. Did any of you notice that there were so many > lawyers on and off this list but none of us could give a complete list or > a reasonablly good list. Had this database been available this question > would not have arisen and the replies would have been better and Amar's > job done faster. > 4. There was an email from Prateek agarwal regarding IT sector but he has > not specified in what part of IT sector does he want information. The > database would have helped him. > 5. Last week I was fighting a case against the Maharashtra Public Services > Commission for a totally blind candidate. Even though the question was not > before the Court but the Court did ask casually that could a totally Blind > person do the work of a Naib Tahsildar. Of course I said yes but had I > known at that time that our very own Rajesh Assudani had got the > appointment letter from the very same Commission for the post of Naib > Tahsildar the Court would have passed the order much faster. > > I hope I have explained my case for the database and all of you will send > in your details and especially the 75 people who have got mails on this > issue from me. please ask your friends and do definitely make it a point > to do it this weekend. I will not stop sending you reminders but you > better take responsibility too. > > Thanks for reading this mail and sorry for being so direct about this > issue. I was losing hope about ever finishing this project. > > A very big thank you to those who have filled up their details and sent > the forms. > Regards Kanchan > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
