On 6/7/11, purnima jain <purnima25j...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > 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 > >
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