Differently abled write to CJ for 4% job quota.

Tribune News Service

Shimla, March 3

Qualified visually impaired and other disabled candidates have sought four per cent reservation in employment. In a letter to the Chief Justice of the Himachal High Court, signed by 17 disabled candidates, they alleged that the government was violating the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2017, by not giving reservation to disabled persons in teaching posts in schools, polytechnics and colleges.

Mukesh Kumar and Saveena Jahan, convener and co-convener of the Disabled Students and Youth Association (DSYA), said they were forced to write to the High Court as the government had not given reservation to the disabled persons in the posts of JBT, TGT, PGT, LT, and Shastri in schools, lecturer in polytechnics and assistant professor in colleges, since 2017.

In the last three years, hundreds of posts of teachers were advertised in the education department and vocational institutions without giving reservation to the disabled persons. They said the disabled persons were running from pillar to post to get statutory provisions implemented. However, the bureaucracy was not ready to listen to their plight.

“We are going time and again to the Directorate of Education to know the status of our posts. Recently, we were told that reservation cannot be implemented without the identification of posts which are yet to be identified. It was shocking and forced us to write to the Chief Justice,” said Mukesh Kumar and Saveena Jahan.
 

When three per cent reservation was given to them under the old Act, no direct recruitment to the post of TGT and PGT was made through the State Public Service Commission. Only batch-wise recruitments were in the practice for the disabled. On the other hand, posts for general candidates were filled through 50 per cent direct recruitment and 50 per cent batch-wise.

The disabled candidates said they belonged to far-flung areas of the state. “We have struggled at every step to acquire higher education. But the government is not only violating the law, but our right to life also, since we don’t have sufficient means for survival and to support our families,” they said.

Allege govt violating rules

In a letter to the Chief Justice of the Himachal High Court, signed by 17 disabled candidates, they alleged that the government was violating the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2017, by not giving reservation to disabled persons in teaching posts in schools, polytechnics and colleges.

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