The disabled get a new champion : Karnataka

Heralding a change, the state's first differently-abled commissioner of the department for disabled, chosen by the Siddaramaiah government last September, has repeated the act: after two months of struggle, he has persuaded the state government to appoint another differently-abled to the post of assistant commissioner. 

    



 



   

                

               

                  Indresh R, the new assistant commissioner        

  

Indresh R, who was with DPAR (department of personnel and administrative reforms), is expected to take charge in a couple of days after the commission's proposal is cleared by the Election Commission, Karnataka Commission for Persons with Disabilities commissioner K S Rajanna told Bangalore Mirror.
 

''This will certainly help the commission to have an effective grievance redressal system," he said.

Rajanna had to work around the lack of a suitable vacancy. The post of section officer to assist Rajanna was vacant, but it was a rank lower to Indresh's, who was an under secretary to the state government. Rajanna worked for two months to upgrade the post.

The new assistant commissioner lost both his legs to polio. He is a B Com and an MBA graduate and a 2005 batch gazetted probationer. "Till 2005, there was no reservation for differently-abled in group A and group B gazetted probationer posts. We had put up a legal fight and had moved till Supreme Court," Indresh told Bangalore Mirror. "I haven't received an official order yet. I consider this to be an opportunity to serve the cause of lakhs of differently abled." 

Source : Banglore Mirror , 18th March 2014