Civil services: 'Explore how specially-abled can be put in different categories'

The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Centre to examine how people with disabilities can be put under different categories in civil servicesA bench of justices S A Nazeer and V Ramasubramanian said sympathy for disability is one aspect but practicality of the decision has also to be taken into accountThe top court shared an incident where a person in Chennai with 100 per cent blindness was appointed as civil judge junior division and the court interpreters got all orders signed by him and was later posted as editor of a Tamil journalYou please examine They may not fit into all categories Sympathy is one aspect practicality is another aspect the bench observedAt the outset Attorney General R Venkatramani appearing for the Centre submitted that the government was looking into the matter and sought timeThe court said it would hear the matter after eight weeksAlso read Supreme Court to hear plea against CJIdesignate Justice D Y ChandrachudThe apex court had on March 25 permitted people with disabilities to apply for the Indian Police Service IPS DANIPS and the Indian Railway Protection Force Service IRPFS provisionally as their preferences in the civil services and asked them to submit their application forms in this regard to the UPSC by April 1It had passed the order while hearing a plea by the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled challenging the Centres August 18 2021 notification on the ground that it has granted a blanket exemption to all categories of posts under the IPS Delhi Daman and Diu Dadar and Nagar Haveli Andaman and NicobarIslands Lakshadweep Police Service DANIPS and IRPFS from the purview of reservation required to be provided thereunderThe plea filed in the apex court has said no information is available in the public domain to be able to discern the rationale for grant of blanket exemption by the notificationIt is submitted that the impugned notification granting blanket exemption to all posts in the IPS DANIPS and IRPFS is unconstitutional contrary to the statute and is legally unsustainable for the following reasons exclusion of PwDs persons with disabilities from occupying even administrative and other noncombat posts in the IPS DANIPS AND IRPFS by way of the impugned notification is manifestly arbitrary it had claimedThe petition had sought quashing of the notification insofar as it grants a blanket exemption from grant of reservation to the PwDs in the IPS DANIPS and IRPFSIt had also sought a direction to the Department of Empowerment for Persons with Disabilities to reserve suitable posts for PwDs in the IPS DANIPS and IRPFSThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever