NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Union
Government’s Department of Personnel and Training to recruit within
six weeks a visually-challenged
man in the Indian Administrative Service.
The Court also imposed a cost of Rs.25,000 on the DoP&T and asked it
to pay the amount to the petitioner.
The petitioner, Ravi Prakash, had sought his recruitment in the
service submitting that there was a backlog of as many as seven
vacancies in IAS for the
visually-impaired; therefore, it should be cleared and he should be recruited.
He had moved the High Court against a judgment of the Central
Administrative Tribunal which had dismissed his petition, allowing
argument by the Centre
that it had started reserving one seat for the visually-impaired in
IAS from 2006 after it decided that the visually-impaired were
suitable for the job.
The High Court allowed his petition rejecting the plea of the
Government. It allowed his contention that the reservation should be
implemented from 1996
when the Government had decided to give reservation to
physically-challenged candidates in the Union Civil Services.
The petitioner through his counsel, visually-impaired advocate S.K.
Rungta, submitted that the law says there will be reservation of 1 per
cent each for
the visually-impaired, the hearing-impaired and the
orthopaedically-disabled in the Civil Services of the total vacancies
each year. But the Government
had instead reserved just one seat in IAS for each category of
physically-challenged candidates, Mr. Rungta said.
But it did not implement that till 2005, creating a backlog of as many
as eight vacancies in this particular category as during the relevant
period 786
persons were recruited into the service, the petitioner submitted.
The petitioner had appeared in the civil services examinations in 2006
and was ranked fifth in the visually-impaired category. The Court also
directed the
DoP&T to clear the remaining backlog of vacancies in the service.
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