Unique punishment for delay: Officers ordered to serve students with disabilities
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New Delhi (PTI): The Disability Affairs Department has meted out a unique punishment to the officers -- serve students with disabilities for five days -- found responsible for delaying by four years updating the category of an employee to PwD in the service book.
Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities Rajesh Aggarwal expressed strong disapproval of state-owned MTNL's failure to just change the category of the complainant employee from General to the PwD.
Through an interim order on November 16 whose copy was shared with PTI, the Chief Commissioner has issued the unique recommendation aimed at fostering awareness on disability matters.
A senior official with the department said the Chief Commissioner has directed the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) to identify and send the officers responsible for the prolonged delay to the Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust.
The officers are mandated to perform five days' service to students with disabilities before December 31, ensuring their proper sensitization to disability-related issues.
Furthermore, the Chief Commissioner has called for a comprehensive report from the telecom firm following the implementation of the recommended action, the official said.
This step aims to assess the impact of the sensitization programme and ensure accountability in addressing disability-related concerns within the organization, the official said.
The Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities was set up to take steps to safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities. Its hearings are held regularly to consider the issues faced by the people with disabilities.
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T'gana BC panel seeks reports over infant's death, family alleges caste abuse
Hyderabad (PTI): The Telangana Commission for Backward Classes on Monday sought reports from state government officials on the death of an infant following alleged assault and caste abuse against her family members in Nagarkurnool district while visiting a temple fair.
In separate letters, Commission Chairman G Niranjan urged Endowments Department Commissioner S Harish and Nagarkurnool district Collector Badavath Santhosh to furnish the reports within three days.
Niranjan drew the officials' attention to media reports on the death of the two-month-old baby at Kummera village in the district and alleged caste discrimination and denial of entry to the temple fair to the baby's family belonging to a BC community.
BJP OBC Morcha's state unit president G Anand Goud alleged inadequate response by the police in the incident and demanded a transparent investigation into the incident.
Alleging that the deceased baby's father was attacked in the incident, he also demanded action against the attackers.
Goud told reporters that BJP's state unit president N Ramachander Rao would visit the village on February 24 and meet the baby's family members.
Meanwhile, a BRS delegation met DGP B Shivadhar Reddy and demanded a comprehensive inquiry into the incident.
The BRS leaders sought action against a person who allegedly attacked the infant's parents.
BC associations have held protests over the past few days regarding the alleged caste discrimination against the deceased infant's family members.
Police said on Sunday that four persons were arrested in connection with the cases registered after the family alleged that the baby died following an "assault" by a group of villagers. The family also alleged that they were abused in the name of caste in the incident on February 18.
However, a villager, part of the group, lodged a counter-complaint with the police the same day, alleging that he was attacked with stones during a scuffle with the family, sustaining a head injury, following which a case was registered.
The infant died on February 21 and her mother, who belongs to an SC community, also lodged a complaint alleging her daughter died due to the physical assault on the family by some villagers, police said.
