We talk about hard work, achievements, perseverance and all, but sometimes, following is the reality after all that. Really disappointing, I want to see something against this injustice soon.
--- Blind duo win battle to join IAS but their pleas gather dust Buried in the files of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) are the IAS ambitions of two visually-impaired men who cleared the Civil Services Examination in 2009 but were awarded services way below their rankings. Acting on the pleas of Ajit Kumar and Ashish Singh Thakur, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) directed the DoPT on October 8 to induct them into the IAS within eight weeks. That deadline ran out today — no step has been taken so far by the DoPT. Kumar says he even wrote to the Prime Minister, the overall in-charge of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, but received no reply. Contacted by The Indian Express, V Narayanasamy, Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, said: “The matter is under consideration.” But Kumar calls it “discrimination against disabled persons”. An OBC, the 30-year-old is an assistant professor at Shyam Lal College in Delhi. He declined to join the Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS). “I secured rank 208 but was awarded IRPS, usually awarded to candidates way down the rankings. It was given to those as low down as 512 rank that year. At my rank for an OBC candidate, I was eligible for Indian Foreign Service. Even general category candidates got IPS at this rank,” Kumar told The Indian Express. Thakur, who ranked 435, reluctantly took up the offer and is presently under training for the Indian Postal Service in Bilaspur, his home town in Chhattisgarh. “Candidates below my rank were awarded Indian Revenue Service but they gave me postal service saying blindness would affect taxation,” Thakur said over phone from Bilaspur. He has already done a stint at the Sales Tax Office in Bilaspur. -- For everything you gain in life, you lose something else. "Ralph Waldo Emerson". With Warm Regards, Govind, voice trainer @ GE Money Services Mobile: 9030915271. Email: [email protected] 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
