Hello Kanchan, Thank you so much for correcting my information about CCPD. I am collecting the necessary documents and writing my concern in points regarding this matter. I would soon send you a simple petition and you can view the points from it's legal prospective. Please do correct them since I am not a legal expert. yes, I am not in a mood to wait any more, however, I would like to wait for that judgement to come which you have mentioned on the below point number 8. Further, I would again say that cheating can be stopped by the Invigilator only. It is not a question of a blind examinee or a sighted examinee. Doing cheating or being honest is a part of the human corrector and habits of the individuals. So just asuming that a Blind Examinee or even a Sighted Examinee can be a cheater, is not at all logical or fair in my ipinion. We cannot consider the entire community as a criminal if one individual has done any crime.
Also, before moving to Court, should we not again write to CCPD for the review of the current Scribe policy? I have got this idea after you have provided usthe below information. Your guidance in the above matter would be highly apreciated. Regards, Amit Bhatt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kanchan Pamnani <kanchanpamn...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:51:48 +0530 Subject: Re: [AI] Preparation to file the petition against the ScribeGuidelines..... To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Amit, I like your enthusiasm to fight injustice and for your rights. However please recheck- 1. there is no rule or order of CCPD which states that the writer should have less than 60% marks. I am willing to be corrected. 2. The original rule was that the writer should have less than 50% marks and then when this was too much the CCPD came out with a clarification that this 50% was causing too much hardship and issued a letter dated 14th May 2003. Please check eyeway for the Directions of the CCPD. 3. SS Sisodia filed a case in the CCPD's office challenging the 50% rule in 2007 in SBI recruitment exams because the 50% rule just continued. 4. After that SBI as a interim measure in 2007 raised it to 60% and everyone else seems to have followed it. I am arguing SS Sisodia's case. 5. Seeing how deep rooted the problem was, the CCPD called a meeting in 2008 to make rules for scribes. These are minuted and have been shared on this list many times. It was then sent to various authorities for their replies. This matter is still pending. 6. In the meanwhile we had the Maharshtra Guidelines which helped not only the examinees in Maharshtra but we used it for good effect all over the country. 7. At the beginning of this year I was rudely awakened to the fact that the Maharshtra government was not following its own guidelines. Of course we dashed to court and the examinee could sit for the common entrance exam to the management courses in Maharashtra. 8. Coincidently this matter was decided yesterday and this 60% rule has been smashed. Please wait for a few days for the judgement. 9. I am aware of what happened on Sunday in Delhi for the SBI recruitment exam and I guess your outburst is because of that. 10. Other Banks have recruitment exams in September I am told and we need too stop this problem now. 11. Just for everyones knowledge I confronted the person who made the 50% rule and I heard something we should all hear.Many of the examinees who sit for exams get their writers not only to take down what they dictate but also to write from their own personal knowledge. The sympathy created by the visually challenged person ends up in cheating. The examinee thinks that the matter is over with the exam but the writer is upset because he wanted to help but now he feels dirty and used. This was the personal experience of the 50% rule maker and I tend to believe the experience. Yes I will get to hear from all of you that you have never cheated and never used your writers in such a way and that sighted people also cheat etc........ I have always maintained that every single one of us is an ambassador for the whole visually challenged community. It should not be but it is. Lets not argue on this point but learn our lessons. Also if we see some of our friends mis using their writers then we must pull them up at that time. 12. From your mail I guess you are getting ready to go to court. Best of luck. Please do not wait for others, if you feel so strongly then please act. I would request you to share your information. When your Petition is ready kindly email it to me so that we stay in tandem. 13.For others who are still reading this mail-if there are any rules regarding scribes/writers in your state please let me have it. 14. Please let me have the list of banks which are conducting their recruitment exam in September 15. Now for academic interest -Did SBI not inform about this 60% rule in their forms, on their website etc. How then were so many people not allowed to sit for the exam. Was this sprung on you at the last minute or was it decided earlier and our visually challenged friends did not bother to follow the rule. I need to know for the next course of action against SBI. Kanchan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amit Bhatt" <misterbh...@gmail.com> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 10:49 PM Subject: [AI] Preparation to file the petition against the ScribeGuidelines..... > Dear all, > > It is sad to know that the current disputed clause and Guidelines for the > Scribe of Visually Impaired Examinees are issued by none other than the > Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities. > Our only concern is with that arbitrary clause which says that the Scribe > should have less than 60% marks. > I do not need to go in detail at this time about the current rule and how > it is arbitrary since we have already discuss this issue on the list on > numerous occasion, however, it is more painful to say that we, the members > of the National Capital of India are still sitting silence. No individual, > no community or no NGO has come forward with full interest to fight > against this unnecessary clause. > Anyways, it is a high time and I am trying to talk to individuals, > communities and NGO's in Delhi to help us in filing the petition in the > High Court. > I will make my best efforts to make it happen but if any NGO or people do > not come with us to support us, then am all setup to challenge this rule > of Scribe in the Delhi High Court. some of my Visually Impaired, who are > also victim of this clause, are also ready to come forward for the cause. > My purpose of writing this e-Mail is just to inform you and if anyone of > you believe that you are also suffering and should jump in this battle, > then please write me or call me for further planning. > We cannot wait any more for someone to come and fight for us. After all > the authorities are not suffering or confronting such problem, but ask > that candidate who really doesn't get the Scribe with less than 60% marks > at this current competitive time. > Like many other Visually Impaired, I am also paying for that mistake which > CCPD has made couple of years back. I have no hesitation to say that the > people who never gone through the examinations for the jobs, and therefore > they didn't find any Scribe for themselves, have decided the fate of the > Visually Impaired examinees of India and framed out the norms of Scribe > with less than 60% marks! And we are still sitting in the lull!!! no, but > it won't happen any more, we cannot afford to lose this battle in absence > of support of others. > We will go to court at the earliest possible time, so please express your > opinion, and if interested, support us for this petition. > > Warm regards, > > Amit Bhatt > > Senior Executive - Reservations > > Far Horizon Tours Pvt. Ltd. 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