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97(Pt-I) dated 22.1.2002 speaks about reserving 3% of posts/services against direct recruitment
quota for physically handicapped persons in Group ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ posts/services. Vide Office
Memorandum No.OM-34/85 dated 10.1.2002 the Government has specified the category of disabled
persons for which reservation in posts/services are to be made, as the persons having the disability (i)
Blindness – 1% (ii) Deafness – 1% and (iii) Orthopedically handicapped – 1%. The said memorandum
does not include “stammering” as one of the physically handicapped category.
8. The Central Government also enacted a legislation namely “The persons with disabilities (Equal
opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. The said Act defines disability
under Section 2(i), which is as follows:
i) Blindness
ii) Low vision
iii) Leprosy cured
iv) Hearing impairment
v) Locomotor disability
vi) Mental retardation
vii) Mental illness
9. Under Section 33 of the Act, the provision for reservation of posts is made. Section 33 of the
Act is quoted herein below:-
“33. Reservation of posts – Every appropriate Government shall appoint in every
establishment such percentage of vacancies not less than three percent for persons of
class of persons with disability of which one percent each shall be reserved for persons
suffering from-
i) Blindness or low vision
ii) Hearing impairment
iii) Locomotor disability or cerebral palsy
In the posts identified for each disability.
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“Provided that the appropriate Government may, having regard to the type of work
carried on in any department or establishment, by notification subject to such conditions,
if any, as may be specified in such notification, exempt any establishment from the provisions
of this section.”
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