T.N. govt. to give 4% quota in promotion to its staff with disabilities
▪ The Tamil Nadu government will provide 4% reservation in promotion to its employees with
benchmark disabilities. It has issued instructions in this regard.
▪ One of the instructions allows the government to exempt any of its establishments from the
provisions of Section 34 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
▪ According to the instructions, the reservation in promotion for persons with benchmark disabilities is “applicable only to the identified posts notified by the government where the cadre strength of a post is more than five.
▪ Such identification shall be made only for posts carrying a pay level up to pay level 25 in each
government establishment”.
▪ The reservation is applicable in promotion as well as in recruitment by transfer (lower pay scale to higher pay scale).
▪ While 1% is reserved for blindness and low vision, 1% is reserved for deaf and hard of hearing.
▪ One percent is reserved for locomotor disability, including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims, and muscular dystrophy.
▪ Another 1% is reserved for autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness, multiple disabilities from among persons under clauses (a) to (b) including deaf-blindness.
▪ However, under one of the provisions, the government shall decide on exempting certain
establishments from the reservation.
▪ The government, in consultation with the State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, “may exempt any government establishment from the provisions of the reservation”.
▪ Section 34 of the Act provides 4% reservation to persons with benchmark disabilities in
appointment.
▪ But, as for promotion, one of the provisions says, “reservation in promotion shall be in accordance with such instructions as are issued by the appropriate government from time to time”.
