one curious doubt.
in visually challenging comunity, this bill is dividing as low vision
and totally blind. my terms may be wrong.
in blind comunity, this division is recognised in the bill. but why
this division is not made in other disability sectars like partially
hearing impaired, totally
My response may sound contradictory but The frank answer is: totally blind are
assertive enough and perhaps developed enough to voice their concerns when it
comes to the fact that they are ignored in jobs and education and so on..
In other disabilities, the hundred percent disabled or severely
thank u sir.
On 2/11/14, Asudani, Rajesh rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in wrote:
My response may sound contradictory but The frank answer is: totally blind
are assertive enough and perhaps developed enough to voice their concerns
when it comes to the fact that they are ignored in jobs and education
Hi,
Just to add about the reservation in jobs: after Railway, CBSE has also
decided to follow the same path and in their recent recruitment notice,
there is one vacancy reserved for VH but only for those between 40% to 70%.
This clearly shows how the future could be for totally blind job
Proposed amendments to the RPwD Bill, 2014
S.No.
Proposed clause by the Ministry
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Clause 2 (q)-
'Persons with disability' means a person with long term physical ,
mental, intellectual, or sensory impairment which in interaction with
No, the proposed amendments are not still acceptable me thinks.
Definition of low vision is not still there.
Reservation provisions are muddled...
Bifurcation of reservation between blind and low vision is done away with.
It will perpetuate the exclusion of blind from jobs as is the case at
what about redresal of grieviances??
is it possible to add something which can take care of action taken
against institutions, public transport, etc, in case of any form of
harrasment or inconveniences caused during the use of public
fascilities??
i'm saying this, keeping in mind the several
No, Shireen
Yu are right in all your assertions.
They are surely needed.
I had, and have been raising these and many more issues during consultations,
in the meeting of legal experts in Vigyan bhavan in April
2012 which I had, kind of gatecrashed, and on other platforms.
However most of them have
