Hi Kanchan To add my 2 cents:We used to have a officer who was blind before he joined us at RBI. Initially, clerks were given to him to assist him in reading. Problems surfaced with this arrangement. later on, on a new strategy was adopted. He was given a fixed allowance and he was given the freedom to get a assistant of his choice and also could compensate them for it.
I preffered to choose for technology as that was more suitable for my work profile. This too was given.
In short, accomodation should be need based with a qualifier in terms of reasonablness. The reasonableness factor should apply both to the employer and the employeed.
Very often, cost of accomodation is made an issue by those who want to make an issue and excuse.
Here I would like to site the use of a typewriter. Use of machine writing for official correspondence would not be a manual requirement. It is used for the benefits this had to offer.
Neither capital expense of consumable expense is argued about.We should also take the similar line, accomodatio should be need based and of course reasonable.
Harish.----- Original Message ----- From: "Pamnani" <kanchanpamn...@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Naib Tahsildar
Sorry to go on with this issue on the list but now I have been informed that Tinaikar our visually challenged friend from TN who is a class 1 officer has a full time clerk to help him with his work.can someone confirm this news? Is there anything in writing which guarantees that he will get this kind of accomodation?Now on the mails that I have received on this issue-Thank you Niranjan for your reply it is interesting that someone out there was sensible and sensitive so many years ago to provide reasonable accomodation without needing a UN convention to tell him to do so.Dear Amar, Please try to find this person in Rajasthan.Where are our accessindians from Rajasthan-chetan Sharma, Rucher etc. Need help my friends!Regards Kanchan Pamnani Advocate & Solicitor 9, Suleman Chambers, Battery Street, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 039.----- Original Message ----- From: "niranjanraj urs" <niranjanu...@gmail.com>To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Naib TahsildarDear Kanchan Madam, Namastee. I am not fully conversent in the issue on hand, but desire to share some thoughts with you. I hope that I am not fully off the mark. I remember to have heard about a blind person, who functioned as a office superintendent in PWD , Karnataka. He happened to be the father of one of my friends and I had heard that he used to work with the assistance of some clerical staff. This is some twenty to twenty five years back when there was no such assistive technologies as we are having today. Further, in government, cadre is important and a VI person can always be given other performable tasks in the same cadre. A good example is in respect of IAS, where VI persons cannot perform the line duties associated with the posts of an Assistant Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner (District Collector). But it is now a matter of fact that VI persons are eligible to get into IAS. Hope my above submissions are relevant. With regards Niranjan On 3/3/09, Pamnani <kanchanpamn...@gmail.com> wrote:So at this stage can I concede the point that the work of a Naib Tahsildarcannot be done by the totally Blind?Of course in tomorrow's matter I am only fighting for compensation for not declaring the results of a candidate. Therefore I wont have to get into theissue.The problem is that while identifying the post we too have identified Naib Tahsildar for Low Vision and not Blind.Is this realistic or too pessimestic? The other issue is that of Partially Sighted . The govt will have to remove that reservation but they will only put it for the Low Vision and not forthe Blind. In the meantime Rajesh please send me your disability certificate. Thanks for the prompt responses. Waiting for other thoughts on the issue. Regards Kanchan Pamnani Advocate & Solicitor 9, Suleman Chambers, Battery Street, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 039. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Asudani, Rajesh" <rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Naib TahsildarHello Kanchan The name of tahaseeldar in Rajasthan remains elusive despite my searches...However, I vaguely remember he was posted in some training institute forstate revenue department or so, and not in a regular office work.Regarding job profile of tahaseeldar/naib tahaseeldar, he/she is a officerof state revenue department entrusted with executing the schemes at the taluka level. As such, the work may comprise of supervising the schemes, issue of various certificates, ensuring post disbursement supervision of utilization of allocated funds for various works, approvingproposals/notes based on supporting file documents in print/handwriting,etc.The work is performed in well lit and ventilated offices!!! and requiresoutdoors visits sometimes. Job requirements may include: reading writing sitting standing etc...However, most of the file work at the state level is in local language anddue to non availability of reading/scanning technology in local language,computers/scanners may only be of very limited use. So, we may say that a totally blind person can perform the work with reasonable accommodation if such reasonable accommodation includes live assistance in the form of a clerical assistance. I think providing live assistancefull time may be construed disproportionate burden as the post is class iiat the taluka level, and all said and done, a totally blind person is not in a position to verify the numbers etc. which constitute an indispensablepart of revenue work at taluka level. So, we may insist on a totally blind person performing the work effectively only when clerical assistance is provided adequately, andnature of work entrusted is safe enough to warrant dispensing with crossverification of data. Regards Rajesh -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Pamnani Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 10:38 AM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: [AI] Naib Tahsildar 2 quick questions 1. I have heard that a totally Blind person is functioning as a Naib Tahsildar somewhere inRajasthan-please can someone give me his name and contact number.If there are any other Tahsildar's who are totally Blind in India pleaselet me know and try to give me details.2. Please help drafting the job description or profile of a Naib Tahsildarand can a totally Blind person do this job wit reasonable accomodation? Urgent help required today the matter is in Court tomorrow. Thanks Kanchan Pamnani Advocate & Solicitor 9, Suleman Chambers, Battery Street, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 039. To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. 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