Taken from The Hindu.
The Office of Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD) has directed the Bihar State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities to take suitable action to ensure the statutory three percent reservation for differently-abled candidates in the recently advertised posts of Assistant Professorship in
universities of Bihar.
This intervention by the CCPD has come in response to a petition/complaint filed by G.N. Karna, JNU’s expert on Disability Studies and honorary president of the Society for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies.
“In our petition filed on September 25, 2014, the Society for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies had alleged blatant violation of three percent reservation guaranteed to the differently-abled inter alia Articles 32 and 33 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full
Participation) Act, 1995, (normally referred to as “PWD Act 1995”),” noted Dr. Karna.
He explained that while advertising for a total of 3,364 posts of assistant professorship in various subjects in the universities of Bihar, the BPSC has deliberately left out the differently-abled.
“Though reservation has been spelt out clearly in case of other special categories, the prejudiced attitude on the part of the BPSC is further reflected in denial of or discrimination against the differently-abled in respect of relaxation in payment of prescribed fees,” said Dr. Karna.
Prima facie the BPSC action has given the impression that reservation of three per cent granted to the the differently-abled, is not complied with and flouted arbitrarily by the Government of Bihar, he claimed.
Source: The Hindu.
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