{"id":244374,"date":"2021-02-25T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T09:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=244374"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:41:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T06:11:12","slug":"rights-of-persons-with-disabilities-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/02\/25\/rights-of-persons-with-disabilities-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Raj HC | State Govt. to consider whether persons with locomotive disabilities and hearing impairment can avail reservation for the purpose of employment under Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rajasthan High Court:<\/strong> The\u00a0 Division Bench of Satish Kumar Sharma and Indrajit Mahanty, JJ., dismissed the petition remitting the matter to State Government for consideration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The present writ application has come to be filed by the petitioner seeking a direction to the State of Rajasthan to include persons with locomotive disabilities as well as who are hard of hearing (hearing impairment) under the category of reservation for the purpose of induction as employee under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 i.e. PWD Act, 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsel for the petitioners submitted that pursuant to the decision in <em>State of Rajasthan v. Vikas Kumar Agarwal<\/em>, DB SAW No. 1484\/2012, the State of Rajasthan has carried out necessary amendments in the notification and included blind people in the area of reservation for recruitment of Primary School Teachers. It was further submitted that the recent notification issued by the Union of India dated 04.01.2021 notified by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in terms of which identified posts are to be reserved for persons with disabilities after review of such list. It was also submitted that that in so far as serial No. 1520 is concerned, Primary School Teachers, other persons with hard of hearing (HH) have been included for the purpose of consideration for appointment<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counsel for the respondents submitted that in terms of the notification issued by the State of Rajasthan, the petitioner cannot be given the benefit of reservation or consideration of posting under the Act of 2016 since persons with hearing impairment cannot be inducted as Primary School Teachers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court observed that the State of Rajasthan shall consider amending its earlier notification and to bring it in line with the suggestions made by the Union of India to the extent that the State Government shall issue necessary modified notification under the Act of 2016 and shall reconsider the applicability of the notification issued by the Union of India in all the various departments of the State of Rajasthan within a period of three months from the date of the order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court thus held \u201c<em>the petitioner is not entitled to any relief before the decision of the State Government to be taken in light of the said notification dated 04.01.2021 issued by Union of India.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the above, petition was dismissed.[Kaushalya v. State of Rajasthan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/WxXdvll5\"><b>2021 SCC OnLine Raj 176<\/b><\/a>, decided on 16-02-2021]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Arunima Bose, Editorial Assistant has put this story together.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan High Court: The\u00a0 Division Bench of Satish Kumar Sharma and Indrajit Mahanty, JJ., dismissed the petition remitting the matter to State 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