Dear friends , Today the disability sector had stepped a step ahead by the order of Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in the inters of al the person with disabilities. The aforesaid judgment is as under:-
Shri S.K. Rungta, General Secretary National Federation of the Blind informed the press that Federation had filed a contempt petition being Contempt.Pet.(C) No. 499/2014 which came up for hearing before the Hon'ble Division Bench of Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ranjan Gogoi & Hon’ble Mr. Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman of Hon'ble Supreme court of India today with regard to disobedience of the directions of Hon'ble Apex court as contained in judgment dt. 8.10.13 in the matter of Union of India Vs. National Federation of the Blind pertaining to scheme of reservation for persons with disabilities. the said petition was filed in view of the disobedience of the following directions committed by Department of Personnel & Training of Govt. of India (i) We hereby direct the appellant herein to issue an appropriate order modifying the OM dated 29.12.2005 and the subsequent OMs consistent with this Court’s Order within three months from the date of passing of this judgment. (ii) We hereby direct the “appropriate Government” to compute the number of vacancies available in all the “establishments” and further identify the posts for disabled persons within a period of three months from today and implement the same without default. (iii) The appellant herein shall issue instructions to all the departments/public sector undertakings/Government companies declaring that the non observance of the scheme of reservation for persons with disabilities should be considered as an act of non-obedience and Nodal Officer in department/public sector undertakings/Government companies, responsible for the proper strict implementation of reservation for person with disabilities, be departmentally proceeded against for the default. Besides this, the petition was also filed in view of the disobedience of the unchallenged directions of the Hon’ble High court of Delhi with regard to non-filling up of backlog of vacancies after computing the same against total number of vacancies in the establishment. The Hon'ble Apex court has issued notices in the said contempt petition against Shri Sanjay Kothari, Secretary Department of Personnel & Training. Sh. S.K Rungta General Secretary Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
