Akhilesh if you feel so strongly write to the lady directly. You are an up coming lawyer and you must fight for the cause. Your one letter will make a difference even if you don't know . She will mind her language the next time she opens her mouth on this subject. I am not good with social media but if you are then her face book page or twitter etc is a good place to start. Kanchan
-----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of akhilesh Sent: 26 October 2012 13:22 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] Why I am proud to be a neta,By Louise Khurshid Dear Avinash, Mrs. Khurshid has even know knowledge to use the appropriate word for persons with disabilities. I wonder how this article got published and a person who is Project director of a trust which works for disable people has no knowledge to use the legally suitable word for us. Can somebody guide her to read UNCRPD? Handicapped!!!! Hand + cap = handicapped. cap in hands for what? for begging!!!! Highly educated woman and wife of india's law minister doesn't know the law. What to expect from a mango man!!!!! On 10/25/12, avinash shahi <shahi88avin...@gmail.com> wrote: > We all disabled need to be on our gards, these people really playing > very dirty politics. > > If you remember I shared Mr Rahul Cherian article also. > And now, see how Madam Louise Khurshid has responded. > > "Neta" is the worst four-letter word. If you are an irresponsible > journalist you can misquote, infer, carry anonymous sources of > information, even blackmail. But you will get the benefit of the doubt > because "journalist" is not a four-letter word. > > If you are a devious businessman, you can cheat, bribe, etc, but you > will get the benefit of the doubt because "businessman" is an > eleven-letter word. If you are a quack doctor, you can misdiagnose, > overcharge, conduct unnecessary operations at high costs, give the > wrong medicine with disastrous consequences, but "doctor" is not a > four-letter word either. I have spent over 22 years as a journalist. > But now, unfortunately, I am a neta, and so everything I do is > automatically suspect. > > Among the things I am proud of, though, is the work we do in the > districts of Uttar Pradesh under the aegis of the Dr Zakir Husain > Memorial Trust, an NGO formed in memory of the late president of > India, who was from my erstwhile MLA constituency, Kaimganj, and was > also, I am proud to say, my grandfather-in-law. > > We sponsor over 30 girls a year for higher education. We focus on > agricultural extension, including aloe vera as a replacement for > tobacco farming, potatoes, chicory and have, less successfully, > experimented with bamboo. Farrukhabad being a crafts hub, we work > closely with zardozi workers, trying to get them better terms of work. > We organise medical help, including plastic surgery for children with > cleft lips, we conduct diagnostic camps, with reputed doctors from > Delhi. The Trust has begged for funds to work for flood relief, for > the thousands afflicted by the flooding of the Ganga and Ram Ganga > rivers that flank Farrukhabad. Our work for the handicapped is only a > fraction of the Trust's work, but it is what I am proudest of. Some > years ago, the ministry of social justice and empowerment, which gives > grants to conduct camps for the handicapped , appointed various > organisations to monitor NGOs in the sector. Our Trust was scanned and > cleared by Action Aid. > > Of course, it would be wrong to claim we have not encountered any > problems with the Trust. For instance, at one of our diagnostic camps, > the doctors were befuddled when over 10,000 people showed up for an > exercise planned for 3,000. Then one of them recalled how an American > doctor had solved the same dilemma at an eye-camp, when thousands of > people who didn't even need spectacles showed up to get their free > pair. And so, their prescriptions, written out by the efficient > doctors, just said "ADT" - any damn thing. > > We started using the same tactic, but with a difference. We > distributed free medicines after the checkups, medicines begged from > pharmaceutical companies through their CSR account. While those who > needed them got the medication they needed, others got the equivalent > of ADT - vitamins, calcium and iron. This is not an experiment that > works all the time. When we hold an assessment camp for the > handicapped, thousands of persons turn up with the expectation of > being helped. But we don't have a magic wand. We work under > constraints, like government orders that a person can get aid only > once in three years. People do get angry with us. Others may not have > the requisite certification. There would go another group of very > angry people. Can we afford to get upset when they complain, or if > they fall prey to an unscrupulous "sting operation"? > > It hurts when a person purporting to stand up for the rights of the > disabled puts me and Arvind Kejriwal at par as persons who have "tried > to stand on the shoulders of persons with disabilities" to do our > politics. I don't know what provisions Arvind Kejriwal may have made > in his new political party, but the Dr Zakir Husain Memorial Trust is > trying to ensure the dignity of the handicapped in a different way. > Besides the 10 per cent reservation for handicapped persons in our > training programmes, we also reserve 10 per cent for any person from a > family supporting a handicapped person. > > It hurts when Rahul Cherian, in his article entitled 'Just a tool in > their hands' (IE, October 18) hits out at me for sitting Rafiq Bhai by > my side in a television programme. Rafiq Bhai is one of our success > stories, a story he wanted to relate on television but was not given > the opportunity. He has formed many of the self-help groups for the > handicrafts project I earlier mentioned. He has been paid well, and > has set up an office. It is not a "be-kind-to-the-handicapped" > project. It is a project to bring dignity to those who are handicapped > by poverty, ill health and lack of education, and Rafiq Bhai is going > to be one of the integral pillars of this project. > > We have never sought publicity for our effort. It seemed in bad taste > to do politics from the shoulders of the afflicted, as Arvind Kejriwal > does so happily. And, therefore, it hurts when persons who have never > volunteered to make a difference, who have rarely gone beyond > pontificating at international conferences, who have rarely held the > hand of the hurt and underprivileged, who have rarely left the capital > city to see how tough life is in the gullies of Uttar Pradesh and > Bihar, are so quick to point a finger. So quick to call us to account > without offering accountability themselves. So quick to condemn, but > abruptly calling off press conferences at the first hint of an > uncomfortable question. > > As the saying goes, "when you point a finger at your neighbour, there > are three fingers pointing back at you." Now some outraged journalist > or social crusader may say: "Don't tar all of us with the same brush. > Only a few are bad apples." Well, not all netas are bad apples. In > fact, most of them are struggling to keep their necks above the > crooked aspirations of a whole body of persons who, unfortunately, > pass as the "aam aadmi". > > Be a fly on the wall of a neta's office/ janta darbar and hear the > kind of requests they get. "Get my child admission in a school or > college even if he scores at the bottom of the class". You say, the > young person must surely pass the test? They retort: "If he can pass > the test himself then why am I coming to you?" Then there are the > constant demands for out-of-turn transfers and undeserved postings. > You dare not question the rationale for the request. What have you > been voted into office for? > > You try to say: "To build roads and install hand pumps through the MP > Local Area Development (MPLAD) fund. To push for Indira Awas houses > and electricity connections to villages. To try to persuade the > railway ministry to connect your area to the rest of the world. To > conduct job melas and get deserving children into schools." They look > at you with incredulity. If you can't get the child of the person they > are supplying zardozi work to in Delhi a DPS admission, then you are > good for nothing! > > Should one give up? Should one just sit back and pay out money at the > right time to the "right" people to secure votes or should one battle > it out in the trenches, regardless of the naysayers? > > For me, the verdict is reserved. > > > The writer is former MLA, Kaimganj, Uttar Pradesh, and project > director, Dr Zakir Husain Memorial Trust > Source: > http://www.indianexpress.com/news/why-i-am-proud-to-be-a-neta/1021135/0 > > > -- > Avinash Shahi > MPhil Research Scholar > Centre for the Study of Law and Governance > Jawaharlal Nehru University > New Delhi India > > > 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 > > -- Akhilesh Dahiya, Advocate. 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