The apex court’s instructions to the Centre for giving reservation in promotions to people with disabilities at the earliest will benefit the community. The government has been using various delaying tactics to give the due benefits to the disabled community since 1995. Supreme Court in its judgment had said that instructions should be issued in accordance with Sec 34 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016, which provides that every 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 people with disabilities. Once that post is identified, the logical conclusion would be that it would be reserved for the specially abled who have been promoted. The government’s policy of calling persons with disabilities as ‘Divyangjan’ is not going to change anything fundamentally until and unless the government decides to fix these lacunae in the system.
