Indian Government has made some reservations in employment for the disabled. Though this is fairly petty, compared to the required impetus from Government to ensure more and more people with disabilities are placed in various organizations, it is yet an important piece of information to take care of.
Some basic information:
- Government reserves 3% jobs of “identified posts” for persons with disabilities in all job categories.
- What are these identified posts – Posts which the Government assumes can be successfully handled by people irrespective of disability.
- Of these 3%, 1% is for Visually disabled, 1% for hearing hard and 1% for locomotive disability/ cerebral palsy.
- According to data available in 2003, only 10.2% of all posts in Ministries/Departments and public establishments have been identified as “identified posts”. Considering 3% of this 10.2% it comes to 0.36% of the jobs that are reserved for people with disability.
- The reservations are non transferable between various types of disabilities i.e. A job reserved in the visually challenged quota cannot be allocated to a person hard of hearing. The transfer only happens in the consecutive year. In the above case if no visually challenged person applied in the next year also, the job can given to a hard of hearing person.
- If any job reserved for people with disabilities is not filled for 3 years, the reservation stands cancelled and the job can be filled by recruiting either an able/disabled person. Till 3 years the job is left open, and carried on to the next year.
To know the jobs reserved for various people with disabilities, check the link below:
http://www.ccdisabilities.nic.in/page.php?s=reg&t=def&p=list_jobsNew