3% quota must for disabled people in all govt jobs including IAS: SC

3% quota must for disabled people in all govt jobs including IAS: SCNew Delhi: The Supreme Court today  held that three per cent reservation for disabled people be given in all categories of government jobs including in appointments and promotions to IAS, while pulling up the Centre for blocking” the very purpose of this empowering legislation by opposing it.

A bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha said that people with disabilities have not got their due in the last 19 years despite the framing of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, which was passed in 1995.
The bench said, the bench, however, observed that appointment is a broader concept and the Centre is giving a narrow interpretation of it. You are frustrating the very reservation policy and cause of class for which Parliament passed the law.

For the last 19 years it is not being implemented and the class, for which the legislation was made, had not got benefited as it should have,” the bench said.

The court dismissed the petition of the Centre challenging an order of Bombay high court which had directed the Centre and the Union Public Service Commission to implement 3 per cent quota in direct recruitment and promotions for the disabled in the IAS.

Bureau Report 

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