With the apex court issuing instructions to Centre for giving reservation in promotions to PwDs at the earliest not less than four months will benefit the community.
The Centre had filed an application for clarification which the SC disposed off.
The government has been applying various delaying tactics to give the due benefits to the disabled community since 1995 to which many cruelties are inflicted by nature.
The SC in its judgment had said that instructions should be issued in accordance with Section 34 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, which provides that every appropriate government shall appoint in every government establishment not less than four per cent of the total number of vacancies in the cadre strength in each group of posts meant to be filled with persons with benchmark disabilities.
The government should not deny quota in promotion to those who were appointed to a post under reservation policy for the PwDs. Once that post is identified, the logical conclusion would be that it would be reserved for PwD who have been promoted.
The government’s policy of calling persons with disabilities as ‘Divyangjan’ and thereby getting huge appreciation of their supporters is not going to change anything fundamentally until and unless the government decides to fix these lacunae’s in the system.
