Srinivasan
This is indeed a very important subject. In my capacity as an advisor to one of the world best known social enterprises in this area (Dialogue Social Enterprise), who work hard on empowerment and employment of the blind as trainers and guides for leadership workshops, I have come to believe that this is a very complex issue. There is so much competition for Univ seats that people with disabilities get marginalised in the process. This can be greatly overcome by supporting vocational courses and creating employement opportunities through influencing policy. When there is a strong push, there will be an automatic pull factor from the educational institutions.
Its unfortunate that despite the Disabilities Act and a lot of effort by a number of groups, even organisations like IT, the food sector, hospitality sector etc., who can benefit a lot from employing the blind do not yet have a policy on employing people with disabilities.
Its unfortunate that despite the Disabilities Act and a lot of effort by a number of groups, even organisations like IT, the food sector, hospitality sector etc., who can benefit a lot from employing the blind do not yet have a policy on employing people with disabilities.
If we can get this included in the paper we submit to Dr. Kalam, it will be wonderful. We can draw inferences from countries like Germany and the scandinavian countries, who are very advanced in their inclusion of people with disabilities into the maintream economic agenda. I will be happy to work with anyone you nominate to put this paper together.
regards
Meena Vaidyanathan
Advisor
HCL / Dialogue Social Enterprise
+91-9818665523
skype: meena.vaidyanathan
2009/7/1 Prime Point Srinivasan <prpoint@gmail.com >
dear friendsJust now, I saw a news item in Bihar Times that Dr Abdul Kalam will attend a mega workshop on the eradication of blindness to be organized in Patna on July 16-17. According to the director in chief, health service, Shatrughan Prasad Singh, Dr Kalam will deliver a key-note address in the two-day meeting organized by Vision 2020 India. The health department of Bihar is extending supporting to the programme.Yesterday, one of my friends told me over phone that the leading Universities like Indira Gandhi Open University, Madras University, Anna University, etc. do not admit blind people for higher education and they do not have the proper supporting system. There are lot of blind students, who are highly intelligent, who are not able to pursue their education.Actually, i was thinking of meeting one or two such students this week to study extent to which Indian Universities support blind people for their higher education. I wanted to take up with Dr Kalam on behalf of our group. I was pleasantly surprised to see the report that Dr Kalam will be addressing the workshop on blindness at Patna.I request members to share their views immediately (before Friday), as to the support provided by the Indian Universities for blind people. If you do not want to reveal your identity, please send your mail to me privately. I will take only the information.Members who are in other countries may also kindly share as to how Universitiesin those countries treat the blind students. On behalf of India Vision Group, let us submit a brief note to Dr Abdul Kalam for his perusal. If there is some system flaw, we can request Dr Kalam to take up with our Prime Minister at personal level.SrinivasanModerator
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