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CONCESSIONS TO PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED CENTRAL
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES – A SUM UP
Physically Challenged central Government employees and Disabled Central
Government Employees are provided with various concessions in the form of
additional Allowance, leave, reduced rate interest, out of turn allotment etc.
Those concessions are listed as follows. Readers are requested to write about
additional concessions if any as comments to this article
1. Special Disability Leave
2. Ad Hoc allotment of quarter to Handicapped employee
3. Ad Hoc allotment of quarter to Handicapped employee
4. Reservation for Person with Disabilities
5. Age Relaxation, Fee Concession, and exemption from Typing Test while joining
Central Government Service
6. Transport Allowance at double the rates
7. Income Tax Exemption for Physically Challenged and disabled Salaried Class
Employees
8. Special Allowance for child care for women with disabilities and Education
Allowance for disabled children of Govt. employees
9. Grant of Children Education Allowance at higher Rates
10. LTC facility for an escort accompanying single handicapped
Government servant
11. Employees can use own / hired Car for LTC if employee or family member is
Physically Challenged and disabled
1. SPECIAL DISABILITY LEAVE
Admissible to all employees- When disabled by injury intentionally or
accidentally
inflicted or caused in, or in consequence of the due performance of
official duties or
in consequence of official position.
When disabled by illness incurred in in the performance of any
particular duty, which
has the effect of increasing liabilities to illness of injury beyond
the ordinary risk
attaching to the civil post held under the same condition.
The disability should have manifested within three months of the occurrence to
which it is attribute and the person disabled had acted with due promptitude in
bringing it to notice. The leave sanctioning authority, if satisfied
as to the cause of
the disability, may relax the condition and grant leave in case where
disability has
manifested more than three months after the occurrence of its cause.
The disability should be certified by an Authorized Medical Attendant
to be directly
due to the particular duty. If it has been contracted during service
other than with a
military force, the leave sanctioning authority should be satisfied
that the disability is
exceptional in character.
The period of leave will be as certified by an Authorized Medical
Attendant subject
to a maximum of 24 month.
It may be granted more than once if the disability is aggravated or
recurs in similar
circumstances at a later date, but the maximum leave in consequences of any one
disability should not exceed 24 months.
It may be combined with any other kind of leave.
It willas service for pension.
It will not be debited to the leave account.
The leave salary for the first 120 days will be the pay last drawn and for the
remaining period, it will be equal to leave salary during half pay
leave, in such cases,
beyond the first 120 days the official may take half leave (at his
credit) for another
120 days along with the special disability leave simultaneously and
get leave salary
equal to that on eared leave. The half pay leave so taken will be
debited to his leave
account.
If the official is entitled to any benefit under the Workmen’s
Compensation Act the
Employee’s state Insurance Act. The amount of leave salary will be
reduced by the
amount of benefit payable under the above Acts.
Appointing authors are competent to sanction Special Disability
Leave-Rule 44 and
45.
2. SPECIAL CASUAL LEAVE
Special Casual leave not more than 10 days in a calendar year may be granted to
attend Conferences/ Seminars/ Training/ Workshop related to Disability and
devolvement– related programmers organized at national and State Level
agencies, Absence in excess of 10 days may be treated as regular leave due and
admissible and it can also combined with regular leave –On dated 14-11-2007.
3. AD HOC ALLOTMENT OF QUARTER TO HANDICAPPED EMPLOYEE
Ad hoc allotment of quarter to handicapped employees will be considered in the
following cases:-
- The blind i,.e those who suffer form either of –
(a) Total absence of sight.
(b) Visual Acuity not exceeding 6/90 or 20/200(snellen) in the better eye with
correcting lenses.
(c) Impression of the field of the vision subtending an angle of 20
degree or worse.
- The deaf, having hearing loss of more than 90 decibels in the better ear
(profoundimpairment)or total loss of hearing in both ears.
- The orthopedicallly handicapped to the extent of 40% and above disability,
- Mentally handicapped / spastic dependents
4. RESERVATION FOR PERSON WITH DISABILITIES
- Categories -
(a) Blindness or low vision;
(b) Hearing impairment;
(c) Locomoter disability or cerebral palsy. [Includes all cases of
orthopedically
handicapped persons.]
Reservation is admissible only for those who suffer form not less than
40 percent
of relevant disability.
For Direct Recruitment.- admissible for all Groups, viz. Group ‘A’
,Group ‘B’, Group
‘C’, Group ‘D’.
For promotion – Admissible to Group D and Group c posts only in which the
elements of direct recruitment ,if any, does not exceed 75 percent
[(i) within Group
D (ii) form Group ‘D’and(iii) within Group C].
Percentage of reservation– Three percent ( 1% for each of the three categories
mentioned above). If a candidate of a particular category is not
available or if the
nature may be vacancy may be exchanged for a vacancy against another among
the 3 categories.
Carry forward of reservation.- Unfilled reserved vacancies will be
carried forward to
the next block in he same year first .unfilled vacancies at the end of
the year will be
carried forward to the three subsequent year.
5. AGE RELAXATION, FEE CONCESSION, AND EXEMPTION FROM
TYPING TEST WHILE JOINING CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Age:
Central Government Post Age Relaxation **
For Groups ‘C’ and ’D’ Posts/ services 10 years for recruitment through
SSC/Employment Exchange
For Groups ‘A’ and ‘B’ Posts/services 10 years for recruitment through
Open Competitive examinations
**5 year in other cases. This age relaxation is applicable to Disabled
and Physically
Challenged Candidates aspiring for Central Government Jobs. In respect of
SC/ST/OBS candidates, this is over and above the admissible relaxation
of 5 years
for SC/ST and 3 years for OBC.
Fee:
Physically Challenged and disabled Candidates aspiring for Central
Government Jobs
are exempted from examination fee / application fee for competitive examination
conducted by UPSC / SSC for all posts.
Typing Test:
Physically Challenged Candidates are exempted from passing Typing Test which is
mandatory for certain clerical Posts in Central Government Service, if
medical board
attached to Employment Exchange certifies that candidates who seeks exemption
from Typing Test are unable to use typewriting machine.
6. TRANSPORT ALLOWANCE AT DOUBLE THE RATES
The blind or orthopaedically handicapped employee in terms of this
Ministry’s orders
vide OM No 21(1) 97-E-II(B) dated 3.10.1997 shall continue to draw Transport
allowance at double the normal rates mentioned in the table below. It is also
specified by Government that Transport allowance in respect of Physically
Challenged and disabled employees in no case, be less than Rs.1000 per month
plus the applicable rate of dearness allowance.
The Normal rates of Transport Allowance are as follows.
Employees drawing
grade of pay Rate of transport
allowance per month
13 cities previously
classified as ‘A-1’1’A’ Other Places
Grade Pay of Rs. 5,400
and above Rs. 3200+DA Rs. 1600 + DA
(i) Grade Pay of Rs.
4.200, Rs. 4,600 and
Rs.,4,800(ii) Grade Pay
below Rs.4,200 but
drawing pay in the pay
band equal to Rs. 7,440
and above Rs. 1600+DA Rs. 800 + DA
Grade Pay Below Rs.
4,200 and pay in the
pay band below Rs.
7,440 Rs.600+DA Rs. 400 + DA
Note: Not admissible to Employees who have been provided with facility of
Government transport.
7. INCOME TAX EXEMPTION FOR PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED AND
DISABLED SALARIED CLASS EMPLOYEES / DEPENDENTS
As per Section 80 U Salaried Class Employee who are partially or
totally blind or
physically handicapped a sum of Rs.50,000 can be deducted from the total income
of the assessee, if he is a person with disability and Rs.75,000 if he
is a person with
severe disability.Section 80DD allows a deduction to an individual or HUF if the
person has incurred in the previous year any expenditure on medical treatment
(including nursing), training and rehabilitation of a dependant with a
disability or paid
or deposited any amount under a scheme framed in this behalf by an
insurer for the
maintenance of a dependant with a disability.
A person with a disability is one suffering from not less than 40 per cent of a
disability (as certified by a medical authority working in a hospital
or institution
notified by the Government), which could be blindness, low vision,
leprosy – cured,
hearing impairment, locomotor disability, mental retardation, mental illness.
Hearing impairment, for this purpose, means a loss of 60 decibels or more in the
better ear in the conversational range of frequencies.
A person with disability also includes the one suffering from autism,
cerebral palsy,
mental retardation or a combination of any two or more. Section 80DD allows a
deduction of up to Rs 50,000 a year and if the disability is severe, up to Rs
1,00,000 a year. Severe disability means a person with 80 per cent or
more of the
disability.
8. SPECIAL ALLOWANCE FOR CHILD CARE FOR WOMEN WITH
DISABILITIES AND EDUCATION ALLOWANCE FOR DISABLED
CHILDREN OF GOVT. EMPLOYEES
Consequent upon the decision taken by the Government on the recommendations
made by the Sixth Central Pay Commission for providing extra benefits to women
employees with disabilities especially when they have young children
and children
with disability, the President is pleased to issue the following instructions :-
(a) Women with disabilities shall be paid Rs. 1000/- per month as
Special Allowance
for Child care. The allowance shall be payable from the time of the
child’s birth till
the child is two year old.
(b) It shall be payable for a maximum of two children.
(c) Disability means a person having a minimum Disability of 40% as
elaborated in
Ministry of Welfare’s Notification No.16-18/97-NI.I dated 1.6.2001.(Annexure)
(d) The above limit would be automatically raised by 25% every time the Dearness
Allowance on the revised pay structure goes up by 50%.
9. GRANT OF CHILDREN EDUCATION ALLOWANCE AT HIGHER RATES
Children Education Allowance for disabled children of Government employees shall
be payable at double the normal rates prescribed. After DA Crossed 50% Children
Education Allowance and Hostel Subsidy have been fixed as Rs.15,000 and
Rs.45,000 respectively. The rest of the conditions will be the same as
stipulated
vide OM No. 12011/03/2008-Estt. (Allowance) dated 2nd September, 2008
applicable in respect of Chidren Education Allowance.
10. LTC FACILITY FOR AN ESCORT ACCOMPANYING SINGLE
HANDICAPPED GOVERNMENT SERVANT
LTC facility could be allowed for an escort who accompanies a handicapped Govt.
servant on the journey subject to the following conditions:-
(i) Prior approval of the Head of the Department concerned is obtained on each
occasion.
(ii) The nature of physical disability of the Govt. servant is such as
to necessitate an
escort for the journey. In case of doubt, the decision of the Head of the
Department will be final.
(iii) The physically handicapped Govt. servant does not have an adult family
member.
(iv) Any other person who is entitled to LTC does not accompany the handicapped
Govt. servant on the journey.
11. EMPLOYEES CAN USE OWN / HIRED CAR FOR LTC IF EMPLOYEE
OR FAMILY MEMBER IS PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED AND DISABLED
LTC Rules authorizes the Head of Department to allow use of own / hired car for
LTC journey on account of disability of the Government servant or dependent
family member after obtaining following documents to avoid misuse of such
relaxation:-
(i) Medical Certificate from competent authority.
(ii) Undertaking from Government servant that journey in authorized mode is not
feasible and he actually travelled by own car/hired taxi.
Source : punarbhava.in, Income Tax Rules
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