> To: nab_frie...@yahoogroups.co.in > From: nabinfocen...@yahoo.co.in > Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 06:39:58 +0000 > Subject: [nab_friends] Job Quota for the Disabled > > SC want 3% govt job quota for the Disabled > > Times News Network > > Source: The Times of India, Sept. 1, 2009 Page 11 > > New Delhi: Visually challenged, hearing impaired and physically handicapped > persons can soon expect the Centre to advertise a large number of job > vacancies in various departments of the government. > > The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre what was holding it back from > identifying and filling posts reserved under the Persons with Disabilities > Act, which was enacted in 1995, mandating a job quota of 1% each for the > visually challenged, hearing impaired and physically handicapped. > > Though it did not agree with the petitioner's counsel, Mukul Rohtagi, that 3% > of the total cadre strength of each department should be filled with these > three categories of handicapped persons, a Bench of Chief Justice K G > Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and B. S Chauhan said it had no > quarrel with the proposition that they should have got 3% of the vacancies > declared since 1996, when rules under the Act were framed. > > But it expressed displeasure with the fact that the government had not acted > in accordance with the mandate of the Act in identifying posts in each > department and giving 3% reservation to the categories mentioned in the Act. > > Appearing for the Centre, additional solicitor general Mohan Parasaran told > the Bench that identification of the posts in each department was being done > and they would be advertised shortly. > > The Bench asked the Centre to file a comprehensive status report within four > weeks, detailing the steps taken to identifying the posts and the measures > taken to fill them. > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/nab_friends/ > > <*> Your email settings: > Individual Email | Traditional > > <*> To change settings online go to: > http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/nab_friends/join > (Yahoo! ID required) > > <*> To change settings via email: > mailto:nab_friends-dig...@yahoogroups.co.in > mailto:nab_friends-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.co.in > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > nab_friends-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.co.in > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://in.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >
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