Well, I think a VI can practice law only if: 1. she/he can afford a sighted assistant, 2. Has good computer knowledge 3. Knows the subject at a level which can be called above average, 4. is from economically well-off family to enable her/him to be without income for a considerable time, Otherwise not. These are the conjunctive requirements and not disjunctive.
This is the harsh reality which should be explained to any prospective lawyers. I could not practice despite fulfilling clearly the requirement No. 3, as I did not fulfill requirements 1 and 4. Requirement 2 was inapplicable in our days.... -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Pamnani Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 7:47 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] 2, 000 people with disabilities to get jobs in IT, BPO firms I agree that jobs are very difficult for the visually challenged in the corporate sector but I do think being self employed is also very tough. I have been getting emails and calls from youngsters who want to join law and I really dont know what to do.How to explain to people how tough it is to survive and how to get them an entry into the profession? Most of the visually challenged prospective lawyers have : a. finished law degree without working while they study so they have no experience while their peers have worked atleast during 4 vacations. Its so tough to get an internship and if you dont get one you dont have experience after college so no employer wants you. its really a catch 22 situation. b. not adequate knowledge of screen readers-most people who call me say they know computers but most of the time they know very little. They cant type fast nor is their research skill honed nor do they know how to deal with track changes. Again if the visually challenged lawyer would know these skills then he could be marketed and someone would give him a chance.Knowledge of computers more than your sighted peers would be a marked advantage and may to some extent mitigate the effect of the impairment. c. lack of knowledge of braille- d. No superior knowledge of the subject. e. no sighted help to read papers I agree that I should not be compared with my able bodied peers but how does someone convince a professional to allow someone to sit in his office? How does a client get convinced enough to trust you with his matter? Forget about the law and give me the practical solutions. Kanchan Pamnani Advocate & Solicitor 9, Suleman Chambers, Battery Street, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 039. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Asudani, Rajesh" <rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [AI] 2, 000 people with disabilities to get jobs in IT, BPO firms > Could not agree more!!! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in > [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Jairam > Balasubramanian > Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 4:49 PM > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in > Subject: Re: [AI] 2, 000 people with disabilities to get jobs in IT, BPO > firms > > At Srinivasu > > If we are talking about individual company names, one company named > Lazer soft in Chennai, claimed to have been equal opportunity company > and also that most of its employees were challenged. > The company was specialising in development of softwares for banking > space, and when I went in for interview, not a single visually > challenged person was recruited there. > After my qualification as CA in 2006, my experiences at the campus > recruitments in ICAI with companies like Goldman Sacks, BPCL, Wipro, > Infosys, L&T, etc have been clearly an evidence of the reluctance of > the HR managers to recruit visually challenged candidates. > > Do we mean to say that any VI person who have'nt been able to land up > into a job into the corporate world, lacks the requisite skills, its > sheer bull shit. > Only a handfull of us, have been able to land up into good jobs, and > based on that, we can't conclude that no-one else possesses the > requisite skills. And also that , we better know how we landed up into > those jobs. > And about the skill sets, hiring a candidate from IIM or such premier > institutes does not require any great boasting up of the companies of > having been an inclusive organisation, as it constitutes only a meagre > percentage, and also that they would anyways get placed due to their > knowledge and networking. > Barring a few on this list itself, I don't think there are many of us > who are highly Tech savy or people who have total expertees in their > respective domains. > For that matter, any fresher or even experienced persons may > necessarily not be having indepth understanding of the industry as a > whole. > If our education systems are non-inclusive, then its not fair to blame > the individual for not possessing good linguistic skills, or the so > called soft skills, most of the schools being regional in nature, even > in relatively bigger cities. > Let us not generalise our ideas on the basis of a very small sample, > where the ground reality is completely different. > May be that, the so called HR managers and the top management, > comprising of the best brains from B-schools, lack the skill sets in > valuation, which they think they are good at. > Its all about finding value, and if someone is not able to find any > value in something, then its his/her incompetence as well as the > product itself. > If I have been created differently, then why I should be equated with > my non-peers and rated on the same scale. 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