The freeze on recruitment in state government institutions and departments is vacated, but filling the posts for the disabled is still up on the state government's to-do list.
On March 28, the court had stalled all recruitments in govt institutions until posts reserved for the physically disabled were filled up
The freeze on recruitment in state government institutions and departments is vacated, but filling the posts for the disabled is still up on the state government's to-do list.
Although the Bombay High Court has modified its earlier order and allowed the state government to fill vacant posts in all categories in its departments, it expects the government to finalise its resolution that proposes to notify the recruitment of the disabled.
On March 28, the HC through an ad-interim order had stalled all recruitments in government institutions and departments until vacant posts reserved for the physically disabled candidates are not filled under the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995.
On Thursday, justice JN Patel and justice Amjad Sayed allowed the state government to recruit for posts in its various departments but continue filling the posts for the disabled.
State advocate general Ravi Kadam and associate advocate general Ashutosh Kumbhakoni told the court that only 900 posts reserved for the disabled are left to be filled in the state. However, owing to the previous court order 1,24,550 posts were lying vacant in the state and the Zilla Parishad.
"There is substantial compliance to the court order. Strenuous efforts have been made. Advertisements inviting disabled candidates were issued repeatedly. However, the government did not receive enough applications" Kadam said.
However, the National Association for the Blind contended before the court that in order to fill the posts in the general category the state has on its own introduced a category called 'partially-sighted' among the one per cent reservations for those with visual disabilities, which according to them is illegal.
"There are two categories among the visually-disabled, blind and low-vision. But the state has recruited persons in a category of partially sighted where even bespectacled persons can be passed off," advocate for the NAB, Kanchan Pamnani told the court.
The court has now asked the state to finalise the notifications of the government resolutions related to this case. All the parties have now been asked to come together and discuss various issues and come before the court in eight weeks.
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