with referance to the above mentioned issue raised by shrinivas sir .hello Sir ,I am glad that you raised this issue .constitutional protection is important for the disabled community ,however it is more important to improve the grievances redressal mechanism for any legal protection to be effective .the Judges and the legal community needs to be made more sensitive to the disability issues and the disability laws ,the public in general and the disabled in particular needs to be made more aware about their rights .So far your suggestion for reservation for the disabled in the parliament is concerned I feel that reservation for the marginalized section in legislature has been instrumental in promoting empowerment of that community and ensure their participation in democratic proces.Further it shall provide us an effective means to voice our concern on the issues affecting us .The politician’s and the public servants are apathetic to the disability issues as we are the microscopic minority and do not account for the vote bank ,further we are not a strong and organized political group .We lack any strong political leadership or any political organization to lobby for the important issues ..political representation and active participation in politics will surely improve the condision.As far your third issue of non-implementation of the reservation for the VI in the jobs is concerned it Is ironical to note that despite so many years of a statutory provision for the same the policy of reservation has remained on paper in many states and even at the union level as there is huge backlog of jobs and still more backlog are created every year .A few NGOs like the NFB has done some work in this direction at the union level but no worthy efforts at the state level exists .the reason for this is that the NGOs are weak in the states .We as a community only fight for small concessions and benefits and when it comes for the issues like employment the fight is mostly by the individual who gets affected .If this is the reality than it is suggested that lets do whatever we can do in our individual capacity say for instance the experts on the group can use the internet to raise the issues ,the lawyers and the NGOs can file cases for filling up the backlog and contempt cases if the backlog is not filled .I know of one judgment of Allahabad high court where the court stayed further appointment till the vacancies for disabled are filled up efforts for taking such judgments should be made the .It is high time that we as a community work for our legal and constitutional rights if we cannot do this for ourselves no one else would .thanks.
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