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| Blind persons stage protest in favour of demands | | World Braille Day | | early times report
Srinagar, Jan 4: On the world Braille day, Jammu and Kashmir State Welfare Association (JK- SWAB) for the Blind today staged protests demonstrations against the state Govern-ment for their failure to provide basic facilities to the visually impaired.
The protesters demanded that the Braille system should be started from Pre-nursery to Higher Educ-ation level in the state for blind students and they should be provided education loan on minimum interest rates. They were also demanding that the Government should provide us reservations in professional as well as non-professional courses. The press release distributed on this occasion reads that the Jammu and Kashmir Disabilities Act was introduced in 1998, which aimed at providing equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation of disabled people, but the same has not been implemented in letter and spirit in the state.
Protestors blamed that a blind training school is a pre-requisite for better life opportunities of people with impaired vision and In many other states of India the Governments have taken special steps at ensuring special provisions and skilled training to blind people But in jammu and kashmir, nothing such is visible on ground level. The press release also reads that lesser fortunate people have no access to opportunities like education, employment and other civil and political rights, despite of our sizeable number in the state blind people in Jammu and Kashmir have been denied all the facilities, even a basic training school.
They demanded that a commission should be established for the blind people in the state and complete rehabilitation centers should be established in all the District headquarters.
Pertinent to mention here that the World Braille Day is celebrated annually on January 4, the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, the inventor of Braille writing. |
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