[AI] Darwin's works go online
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Re: [AI] Skype on Your Smart Phone
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Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception.
Hello! one copy to me also. thanks in advance. regards, Keshav. - Original Message - From: Pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Hi, I will send it to you. Its in PDF however we are intervening tomorrow so will have more news by day after. Kanchan Pamnani Advocate Solicitor 9, Suleman Chambers, Battery Street, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 039. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Hi Chandrashekar and others, Can somebody please send me a e-text or scanned copy of this Maharashtra High court judgement? thanks and best wishes, Pranay Gadodia, Content Research Officer, Score Foundation. 125B, Shahpur Jat, New Delhi - 110 049 INDIA. Phone: +91 - 11 - 2649 4582/81 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.eyeway.org - Original Message - From: chandrashekhar kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:33 PM Subject: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Friends, First of all I wish aHappy and Prosperous Divali. Recently as per High Court it has become binding on Maharashtra Govt. to recruit handicapped to fill up the backlog of reservation. But in almost 80% of ads only partially sighted with 40% of vision are eligible to apply. Totally blind because of this get very much frustrated. Further in reality the jobs are given to those who really do not come under the catagory of v.h. but by hook or crook manage to get a Dr's certificate. I feel the categorisation of v.h. done in most of eye hospitals is unscientific. A person seeking a certificate there in most of the cases is just asked to identify the number of fingers and if a person says he cannot see the fingers he is given a totally blind person certificate and the same person if partially sighted after some days manages to get a partially blind certificate with the result the same person has both the certificates. Isn't it rediculous? But because of this totally blind persons, in spite of having the ability is unable to get a job. I feel something needs to be done about this. Sincerely, C. B. Kulkarni. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [AI] Need Information
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[AI] saving messages
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[AI] Fw: Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception.
- Original Message - From: pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keshav Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 07:30 Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Let me explain this matter in detail In 2002 ILS a law college in Pune filed a public interest litigation against the Maharashtra Government for implementation of the PWD Act. this Petition is numbered as 70 of 2002. In pursuance of this Petition we got Low floor buses etc. This is an all inclusive Petition. Subsequently the National Federation of the Blind, Maharshtra Unit filed Petition No. 129 of 2003 for identification of jobs for the blind etc. Both these Petitions have been heard together so there are concurrent orders in both these matters. I will now explain what has been happening on the issue of jobs for the visually impaired. Over the last 3 years various departments of the Maharshtra Government have been identifying jobs for the disabled.There are about 17 such lists and there matching Government Resolutions. While identifying the jobs and creating these lists an additional category was created namedPartially Sighted within the broad category of visually impaired. So what started happening was that the departments started identifying jobs for the totally blind, low vision, partially sighted. Obviously more jobs were available for the Partially sighted as compared to those for the blind. However after looking at nearly all those 17 lists I find that about 17 jobs have been identified for the blind. This is nearly the same as those in the Central list. Therefore for the limited issue and for the time being I am going to say the identification process is OK. I will come back to this issue later. However the creating of a 3rd category in the 1% for the visually impaired is a problem. Now for the next step the Maharashtra Government did not fill up these jobs so the Court hadd to intervene. On 7 September 2006 Court ordered stay of all other recruitments until the disabled backlog was completed and the process should be completed in 3 months. The Petitions are still alive and the matters keep coming up on Board for hearing. The government started issuing advertisements for walk in interviews and for written applications. Now it has come as a big shock that most of the posts being advertised are for the partially sighted and not for the blind or the low visioned. The problem is that the advertisements are more or less in line with the jobs identified over the years so the advertisements are really not bad in law in most cases. Some totally blind friends approached me and I have filed an intervention application in Petition No. 129 of 2003challenging some of the advertisements which are not in line with the identified jobs and also challenged the creation of Partially Sighted category. the matter was on board yesterday however it did not reach but we mentioned it at 3 pm but the Court said we can remedy any wrong being done, come back after the vacations. So here we are. Now we will either have to file a fresh affidavit stating that the appointments have to be stopped or the totally blind should be interviewed also. There is a Minutes of meeting dated 26 September which states that people suffering from a higher degree of disability should be preferred- this might help if the totally blind are allowed to give the interviews. So the next 2 weeks will be spent in collecting data of discrimination etc. I will not go into further detail at this stage. I will copy the order of 7 September 2006 in Petition no. 70 of 2006 in another mail. If you want the other orders you will have to go on to the nic site or soon to the iway site. Kanchan - Original Message - From: Keshav Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED]; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 23:55 Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Hello! one copy to me also. thanks in advance. regards, Keshav. - Original Message - From: Pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Hi, I will send it to you. Its in PDF however we are intervening tomorrow so will have more news by day after. Kanchan Pamnani Advocate Solicitor 9, Suleman Chambers, Battery Street, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 039. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Hi Chandrashekar and others, Can somebody please send me a e-text or scanned copy of this Maharashtra High court judgement? thanks and best wishes, Pranay Gadodia, Content Research Officer,
Re: [AI] Fw: Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception.
Hi pamnani, thankyou for the detail information please place the copies of the relevant orders in your next mail so that i can take up the matter with the Karnataka government and try to solve the problems visually impaired in our state in my capisity of capasity of the president of Bharatiya welfare association for the blind regards dattu agarwal. e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile 9886678744 pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: pamnani To: Keshav Kumar Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 07:30 Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Let me explain this matter in detail In 2002 ILS a law college in Pune filed a public interest litigation against the Maharashtra Government for implementation of the PWD Act. this Petition is numbered as 70 of 2002. In pursuance of this Petition we got Low floor buses etc. This is an all inclusive Petition. Subsequently the National Federation of the Blind, Maharshtra Unit filed Petition No. 129 of 2003 for identification of jobs for the blind etc. Both these Petitions have been heard together so there are concurrent orders in both these matters. I will now explain what has been happening on the issue of jobs for the visually impaired. Over the last 3 years various departments of the Maharshtra Government have been identifying jobs for the disabled.There are about 17 such lists and there matching Government Resolutions. While identifying the jobs and creating these lists an additional category was created namedPartially Sighted within the broad category of visually impaired. So what started happening was that the departments started identifying jobs for the totally blind, low vision, partially sighted. Obviously more jobs were available for the Partially sighted as compared to those for the blind. However after looking at nearly all those 17 lists I find that about 17 jobs have been identified for the blind. This is nearly the same as those in the Central list. Therefore for the limited issue and for the time being I am going to say the identification process is OK. I will come back to this issue later. However the creating of a 3rd category in the 1% for the visually impaired is a problem. Now for the next step the Maharashtra Government did not fill up these jobs so the Court hadd to intervene. On 7 September 2006 Court ordered stay of all other recruitments until the disabled backlog was completed and the process should be completed in 3 months. The Petitions are still alive and the matters keep coming up on Board for hearing. The government started issuing advertisements for walk in interviews and for written applications. Now it has come as a big shock that most of the posts being advertised are for the partially sighted and not for the blind or the low visioned. The problem is that the advertisements are more or less in line with the jobs identified over the years so the advertisements are really not bad in law in most cases. Some totally blind friends approached me and I have filed an intervention application in Petition No. 129 of 2003challenging some of the advertisements which are not in line with the identified jobs and also challenged the creation of Partially Sighted category. the matter was on board yesterday however it did not reach but we mentioned it at 3 pm but the Court said we can remedy any wrong being done, come back after the vacations. So here we are. Now we will either have to file a fresh affidavit stating that the appointments have to be stopped or the totally blind should be interviewed also. There is a Minutes of meeting dated 26 September which states that people suffering from a higher degree of disability should be preferred- this might help if the totally blind are allowed to give the interviews. So the next 2 weeks will be spent in collecting data of discrimination etc. I will not go into further detail at this stage. I will copy the order of 7 September 2006 in Petition no. 70 of 2006 in another mail. If you want the other orders you will have to go on to the nic site or soon to the iway site. Kanchan - Original Message - From: Keshav Kumar To: Pamnani ; Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 23:55 Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Hello! one copy to me also. thanks in advance. regards, Keshav. - Original Message - From: Pamnani To: Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:29 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Hi, I will send it to you. Its in PDF however we are intervening tomorrow so will have more news by day after. Kanchan Pamnani Advocate Solicitor 9, Suleman Chambers, Battery Street, Colaba, Mumbai - 400 039. - Original Message - From: Pranay Gadodia To: Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [AI]
[AI] community radio forum
i went through a news about a new activity in the field of FM Radio. I think many of the list members will be interrested in this piece of information. therefore, copying the same here: Activists hail Decision by Group of Ministers/Cabinet Urged to Okay Media Release Activists hail Decision by Group of Ministers Cabinet Urged to Okay Community Radio Policy New Delhi, October 13, 2006 The Community Radio Forum of India has hailed the Group of Ministers recommendation to clear the Community Radio Policy, drawn up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The new policy will now allow civil society organizations, NGOs and other non-profits to apply for Community Radio licenses making citizens radio a reality. The Forum urged the Union Cabinet to accord the highest priority to approve and notify this policy and brings about democratization of Indias airwaves. Under the present community radio guidelines, only well-established educational institutions are permitted to set up campus-based radio stations. Following the landmark Supreme Court judgment of 1995 which declared that the airwaves are public property, to be used for public good - members of the Community Radio Forum, international advocacy groups such as World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), other civil society organizations across the country and international development organizations including UNESCO and UNDP have, over the past six years, held several consultative meetings with the ministry to expand the eligibility criteria to include community based organizations. In May 2004, the I B Ministry, in consultation with civil society representatives including the Forum, drew up a set of policy recommendations to allow communities to own and manage their own FM community radio stations. In August 2005 the Forum petitioned the Prime Minister ( http://www.petitiononline.com/comradio/) to put an end to this discriminatory broadcast policy where corporate houses could buy FM frequencies but communities could not own and operate their own stations and were left with no other choice but to buy air-time from existing All India Radio stations. Members of the Forum have since then collected over 50,000 signatures on this petition. News programmes and advertisements are currently banned on campus radio. The new policy will not only open up community radio to NGOs, self-help groups and other community-based organizations, but will also allow them to become self-supporting through limited ad-revenue. On notification of this policy India will become the first country in South Asia to have a separate policy for community radio. The Community Radio Forum, which is an association of community radio broadcasters, activists and academics looks forward to a genuine democratization of the countrys airwaves when this policy comes into force. Stalin K. For, Community Radio Forum, India Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Community Radio Forum, India 1. Stalin K., DRISHTI - Media, Arts Human Rights, Ahmedabad 2. Preeti Soni, Radio Ujjas, Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan, Bhuj 3. Ashish Sen, VOICES, Bangalore 4. Dr. Vinod Pavarala, Dean, School of Communication, Central University, Hyderabad 5. Nandita Roy, National Foundation of India, New Delhi 6. Shankar Ghose, Charkha, New Delhi 7. Frederick Noronha, Panaji, Goa 8. P V Sateesh, Deccan Development Society, Hyderabad 9. Dr. B P Sanjay, School of Communication, Central University, Hyderabad 10. Nitya Jacob, WriteShop, New Delhi 11. Basheerhamad Shadrach, New Delhi 12. Vickram Crishna, Radiophony, Mumbai 13. Nimmi Chauhan, DRISHTI - Media, Arts Human Rights, Ahmedabad 14. Geeta Malhotra, OneWorld South Asia, New Delhi 15. Osama Manzar, Digital Empowerment Foundation, New Delhi 16. Venu Arora, Equal Access, New Delhi 17. L Ajith, Radio Alakal, Trivandrum 18. Ram Bhatt, VOICES, Bangalore 19. Gabar Singh, Umang Group 20. Nalini Abraham, Plan International 21. Anshu Sharma, SEEDS, New Delhi 22. Tom Thomas, Praxis India, New Delhi Regards Vedprakash Sharma, Ph 011-32440078, M 09350158273 To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [AI] Fw: BlindNews: World Of Information Available With EMC CaptivaQuickScanPro
Well, the product seems to be useful and interesting, however, I could not gather any more details about it even by visiting the said url, would be glad if anybody could provide the same. Regards Rajesh. - Original Message - From: Vishal M Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:07 PM Subject: [AI] Fw: BlindNews: World Of Information Available With EMC CaptivaQuickScanPro Regards, Vishal Jain Ph : 080-41140564 Website : http://vishal.hello.googlepages.com - Original Message - From: BlindNews Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:10 AM Subject: BlindNews: World Of Information Available With EMC Captiva QuickScanPro ECM Connection, PA, USA Tuesday, October 17, 2006 World Of Information Available With EMC Captiva QuickScan Pro High speed document imaging is typically utilized in business departments to increase efficiency and speed laborious paper-based processes. However, individuals can also apply capture software in unique ways to find creative solutions to daily challenges and stay connected to the information needed to do their jobs. Challenge: Imaging Piles of Books Kyle Bergum is legally blind and works as Group Manager of Operations at Microsoft where he is responsible for a portfolio of services within the corporate IT department. As part of his role at Microsoft, Kyle reads - with the help of a computer application that reads text aloud - a range of printed research materials in various formats including books, journals, printed documents and other references. There are many times when Kyle utilizes multiple reference materials in his job function and each reference can often range from 300 to 1000 pages. To assist in his reading and research, Kyle uses a document capture solution to transform paper reference materials into electronic images so a special computer application can then magnify the images and read them aloud. A typical solution utilizing a flatbed scanner, scanning one to two pages at a time simply would not be practical: It could take many days to scan a reference material that is 300 pages or more and the quality would be impacted as well. Fortunately, Kyle discovered a solution to his challenge ... document capture with EMC Captiva QuickScan Pro. Click Here To Download: Case Study: Microsoft http://www.ecmconnection.com/downloads/detail.aspx?docid=ce904b0d-c38f-473e- b4e8-83351ab29710 (Source URL below) http://www.ecmconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7BAD903D28-F50C -4B1B-BDC4-EA1E1D5AEF57%7DBucket=Supplier+NewsVNETCOOKIE=NO -- BlindNews mailing list Archived at: http://GeoffAndWen.com/blind/ Address message to list by sending mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Access your subscription info at: http://blindprogramming.com/mailman/listinfo/blindnews_blindprogramming.com To unsubscribe via e-mail: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in either the subject or body of the message To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [AI] Fw: Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception.
Thank you for a detailed briefing on what has been taking place. However, I wish to submit that creation of the third category of partially blind in addition to the two mentioned in PWD act, is arbitrary and goes against the laid down statutes, and hence, any identification for the said new category and consequent filling up of vacancies for them also militates against the rule of law. Had the said category not been created in the first place and had the identification of jobs remained confined to the categories of blind and low vision, certainly more posts would have been available for the blind. Given the proposition that persons with higher disability should be given preference, the lot of the totally blind aspirants would have been much better. I do not contend that people with partial sight do not exist, however statutorily they have to belong either to totally blind or low vision category. All said and done, I am also aware that life of law [and also that of legal courts and judgments] is not governed by logic but experience. As once one famous legal luminary put it: We are under the Constitution, but Constitution is what the judge says it is! Regards Rajesh. - Original Message - From: pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:30 PM Subject: [AI] Fw: Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. - Original Message - From: pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keshav Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 07:30 Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Let me explain this matter in detail In 2002 ILS a law college in Pune filed a public interest litigation against the Maharashtra Government for implementation of the PWD Act. this Petition is numbered as 70 of 2002. In pursuance of this Petition we got Low floor buses etc. This is an all inclusive Petition. Subsequently the National Federation of the Blind, Maharshtra Unit filed Petition No. 129 of 2003 for identification of jobs for the blind etc. Both these Petitions have been heard together so there are concurrent orders in both these matters. I will now explain what has been happening on the issue of jobs for the visually impaired. Over the last 3 years various departments of the Maharshtra Government have been identifying jobs for the disabled.There are about 17 such lists and there matching Government Resolutions. While identifying the jobs and creating these lists an additional category was created namedPartially Sighted within the broad category of visually impaired. So what started happening was that the departments started identifying jobs for the totally blind, low vision, partially sighted. Obviously more jobs were available for the Partially sighted as compared to those for the blind. However after looking at nearly all those 17 lists I find that about 17 jobs have been identified for the blind. This is nearly the same as those in the Central list. Therefore for the limited issue and for the time being I am going to say the identification process is OK. I will come back to this issue later. However the creating of a 3rd category in the 1% for the visually impaired is a problem. Now for the next step the Maharashtra Government did not fill up these jobs so the Court hadd to intervene. On 7 September 2006 Court ordered stay of all other recruitments until the disabled backlog was completed and the process should be completed in 3 months. The Petitions are still alive and the matters keep coming up on Board for hearing. The government started issuing advertisements for walk in interviews and for written applications. Now it has come as a big shock that most of the posts being advertised are for the partially sighted and not for the blind or the low visioned. The problem is that the advertisements are more or less in line with the jobs identified over the years so the advertisements are really not bad in law in most cases. Some totally blind friends approached me and I have filed an intervention application in Petition No. 129 of 2003challenging some of the advertisements which are not in line with the identified jobs and also challenged the creation of Partially Sighted category. the matter was on board yesterday however it did not reach but we mentioned it at 3 pm but the Court said we can remedy any wrong being done, come back after the vacations. So here we are. Now we will either have to file a fresh affidavit stating that the appointments have to be stopped or the totally blind should be interviewed also. There is a Minutes of meeting dated 26 September which states that people suffering from a higher degree of disability should be preferred- this might help if the totally blind are allowed to give the interviews. So the next 2 weeks will be spent in collecting data of discrimination etc. I will not go
Re: [AI] saving messages
first, open the message to be saved, by right clicking or pressing the application key and entering on open. press alt for accessing menu, down arrow to save as option, and enter on it. the save as dialog will appear. hope it helps Happy Diwali Vedprakash - Original Message - From: pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 7:46 AM Subject: [AI] saving messages Please give me the procedure: I have many messages in the inbox in outlook express and I need to save them on a pen drive so that I can put these messages back into the inbox after my laptop returns to me. I cannot afford to lose any of these messages and I do not have the time to save them in word before my laptop is given away. Kanchan To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [AI] Fw: Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception.
Also baffling is the question as to how come most--almost all--backlog vacancies being advertised are precisely those identified for partially sighted? Rajesh. - Original Message - From: rajesh asudani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED]; accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Fw: Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Thank you for a detailed briefing on what has been taking place. However, I wish to submit that creation of the third category of partially blind in addition to the two mentioned in PWD act, is arbitrary and goes against the laid down statutes, and hence, any identification for the said new category and consequent filling up of vacancies for them also militates against the rule of law. Had the said category not been created in the first place and had the identification of jobs remained confined to the categories of blind and low vision, certainly more posts would have been available for the blind. Given the proposition that persons with higher disability should be given preference, the lot of the totally blind aspirants would have been much better. I do not contend that people with partial sight do not exist, however statutorily they have to belong either to totally blind or low vision category. All said and done, I am also aware that life of law [and also that of legal courts and judgments] is not governed by logic but experience. As once one famous legal luminary put it: We are under the Constitution, but Constitution is what the judge says it is! Regards Rajesh. - Original Message - From: pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:30 PM Subject: [AI] Fw: Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. - Original Message - From: pamnani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keshav Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 07:30 Subject: Re: [AI] Recruitment of v.h. by Maharashtra Govt. a deception. Let me explain this matter in detail In 2002 ILS a law college in Pune filed a public interest litigation against the Maharashtra Government for implementation of the PWD Act. this Petition is numbered as 70 of 2002. In pursuance of this Petition we got Low floor buses etc. This is an all inclusive Petition. Subsequently the National Federation of the Blind, Maharshtra Unit filed Petition No. 129 of 2003 for identification of jobs for the blind etc. Both these Petitions have been heard together so there are concurrent orders in both these matters. I will now explain what has been happening on the issue of jobs for the visually impaired. Over the last 3 years various departments of the Maharshtra Government have been identifying jobs for the disabled.There are about 17 such lists and there matching Government Resolutions. While identifying the jobs and creating these lists an additional category was created namedPartially Sighted within the broad category of visually impaired. So what started happening was that the departments started identifying jobs for the totally blind, low vision, partially sighted. Obviously more jobs were available for the Partially sighted as compared to those for the blind. However after looking at nearly all those 17 lists I find that about 17 jobs have been identified for the blind. This is nearly the same as those in the Central list. Therefore for the limited issue and for the time being I am going to say the identification process is OK. I will come back to this issue later. However the creating of a 3rd category in the 1% for the visually impaired is a problem. Now for the next step the Maharashtra Government did not fill up these jobs so the Court hadd to intervene. On 7 September 2006 Court ordered stay of all other recruitments until the disabled backlog was completed and the process should be completed in 3 months. The Petitions are still alive and the matters keep coming up on Board for hearing. The government started issuing advertisements for walk in interviews and for written applications. Now it has come as a big shock that most of the posts being advertised are for the partially sighted and not for the blind or the low visioned. The problem is that the advertisements are more or less in line with the jobs identified over the years so the advertisements are really not bad in law in most cases. Some totally blind friends approached me and I have filed an intervention application in Petition No. 129 of 2003challenging some of the advertisements which are not in line with the identified jobs and also challenged the creation of Partially Sighted category. the matter was on board yesterday however it did not reach but we mentioned it at 3 pm but the Court said we can remedy any wrong being done, come back after
