Bhubaneswar: Activist Rights of Disability and Experts Increase to Amendment in the Odisha Gram Panchayat Law to enable people who are visually challenging for the contest in elections.
This problem found himself at the Centrestage after the nomination of a man’s visual defect was canceled because he could not write in Odia even though he had cleaned the X Pass class and could write using Braille scripts.
“There is an urgent need to bring amendments to existing laws that make people who are visually challenging from the arguments in elections.
Unlike other people’s categories with disabilities, the law is a barrier to blind.
Like me, there are many people who meet the requirements Want to serve the community but it cannot be due to these challenges, “Shantilal Sabar (40), which nominees for posting Sarpanch in Dabiripada Village, in Block Komna District Nubada, canceled.
Odisha VIGLANG MANS (OVM), an organization that fights up the rights of disability, plans to move the Odisha High Court challenging the cancellation of the Shantilal nomination.
MANSH also plans the wise protest of the district.
“During the 2012 Panchayat election, Gauda’s gauda nominations were challenged visually rejected because he had put the impression of his thumb instead of his signature in the newspaper.
At that time, we have transferred the Election Commission and has suggested the state government to make amendments in existing laws .
But nothing has happened since, “said Niranjan Behera, OVM President.
“Braille is an internationally accepted script by all governments.
This is a substitute for all languages.
Braille literacy cannot be treated as illiteracy.
In all election commission elections have allowed ballots in Braille, then how they can seize Shantilal because they know Braille , “said Sarat Kumar Das, Secretary General of the Odisha Association for blind people.
“The person has been seized because of ignorance of officers.
The rights of disabled people are confirmed under the people with disabilities.
Some nominations have been canceled in the past because they did not sign papers in odiah.
But that is not the real problem.
The problem is the mindset of people against Disabled, “Das pointed.
OVM has written to the State Election Commission, the Odisha Government, Commissioner of the Disability of State and Commissioner of Odisha Human Rights to Change the Law Odisha Gram Panchayat.