Dear Friends-- I am writing to this list after a long time. I wish to tell you an incident happened in my office , which shocked me.
Every year, a delegation goes from my office, C-DAC, to participate in SuperComputing conference in USA. This year I put my self-nomination for this. I am the most qualified and most senior person for the job. But my boss called me for a one-to-one discussion and informed me that it will be 'embarrasing' to send a person (VI) like me in . the delegation. Because I will require someone's support and will hold someone's hand. Also if some accident happens to me because of my disability, he and office will be hold responsible for why they sent such a person. I was really shocked and upset with the behaviour. Then I withdrew my nomination for participation in the conference. Friends, I want to show you that how these learned so-called superiors fail to understand the VI peoples aspirations and behave in such a nonsense way. Thanks for sharing my concerns. Mahesh Shah Pune Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm 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
