While listening to Modi’s Varanasi speech, it seems that Our Prime Minister is very impressed from the Braille script used by blind people. I wonder if that is the case then why India is yet to establish a Braille magazine with ISSN number to provide platform to blind writers for publishing their work. Why Indian currency is nott embossed in Braille despite being proposed in the 2014 Budget? Why government circulars are not issued in Braille for the blind residents in the villages? For the prime Minister, We are ‘divyang’ because we use Braille is utterly fallacious understanding. For his kind information, we do Not only use Braille, we also use screen-reading softwares. We write in the Journals, newspapers and the magazines like non-disabled people. Does Prime Minister know this? If yes, can he direct the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to provide laptops to the needdy ones in the villages to sure up his ‘digital India’ campaign? I’m keenly waiting for the 2016-17 Budget lets wait and hear how much government proposes for the ‘divyang. His Varanasi speech given on 22 Jan 2016 is again devoid of substance. No assurance for providing overdue and long pending jobs despite the Apex Court judgment to the ‘divyang’ in the time-bound manner. no explanation over the delay in the appointment of the Chief Commissioner of Persons with Disabilities whose post is lying vacant for more than an year. Our Prime Minister is certainly not well-guided about disability issues. The minions who brief PM about us need to shun arrogance and act in the interest of disabled people. Before it is too late, The time has arrived when India should have separate ministry of disability affairs working for the persons with disabilities. Will PM will go for it?
-- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU 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..
