In continuation of my earlier email: I spoke to Bhanu P Lohumi (the reporter of this article) and Mr. Shrivastava (the director of Umang Foundation as well).
So when the guidelines came, Mr. Shrivastava wrote a letter to state social justice minister for implementation, and then he met with CJ of High Court, who took his letter as PIL. On 7th of Jan this year, the Government said that they are ready to consider the prayers of the petitioner, so the petition was disposed off with a direction to issue necessary orders in 8 weeks. The Government has failed to comply with the order, so now they will be filing contempt petition for non-compliance. So in this session nothing can be done really, but they are hopeful that from next session this situation will change. A pointer for list members: Should we have a say from various states and see which are non-compliant bodies and take appropriate measure? Thanks -- Amar Jain. Website: www.amarjain.com Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
