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Guwahati, July 24, 2008
Continuing their hunger strike for the last ten days, the All Assam Blind Students Union members today being arrested when came to the capital to block the road and gherao the secretariat. The Blind students are fighting for their legal rights in the state for the last more than five years who are still deprive from the job opportunity.
Every time the students raise their voice they are being treated as a second class, alleged the union who seeks the Govt. help for their future. “We are being under estimate every time we raise our demands. They always deprived us from the jobs that have been allotted to us and no facility is still being implemented for the Blind students in the state”, said Uddhav Kalita, spokesperson of the Blind Students’ Union.
When the assembly is called the blind students try to get noticed for their demands and the procedure is some how taking a more time than it should have been, revealed a source of the RTI office. While the Govt. sources are still giving them hopes by saying that the demands are taken to concern and will be effective soon. “We are trying our level best to streamline the blind students’ demands and hope it will be done in short time”, stated the Govt. official source.
Today, the Blind students came on the roads and being barricaded by the state security and arrested thereafter. “The students went aggressive and left with no option but to arrest them”, said Bayan, Adl. SP, City adding that “we tried to make them discipline and many of them have already been taken to medical treatment after they broke of the fast. The students have been on fast unto death since 14th and it’s a critical situation now and the administration can’t take the chance”.
“No Braille books and academic structure is planned and implemented in the state, we don’t have even higher education facilities. The Government of Assam has passed the decision to make a Braille book publishing House in the state, which is still in no scenery”, said Anima, a blind student who shined in the last High School exams. She also added that apart from the unavailability of the books the Assam Government is not providing the back log jobs allotted to them under special quotas. “Our fast unto death is a symbolic demonstration of the situation that we are going through; we still urge the authority to implement their duties to us in a proper way” she demanded.
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I feel it’s a sin to play fun with blind men’s right, just because of dishonest mean.