Union
Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh yesterday (04.12.15) disclosed that the Department
of Personnel & Training (DoPT) had relaxed the transfer policy in case of
government employees who happened to be the parents or care-givers of a
disabled child. As a result of this, parents of such children would be exempted
from routine exercise of transfer in government service, subject to
administrative constraints.
Elaborating
further, Dr Jitendra Singh said, initially, the Narendra Modi government
provided this relaxation in case of employees who were care-givers of a child
with certain disabilities like blindness or low vision, hearing impairment,
locomotors disability, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, multiple
disabilities and autism, but a recent proposal put up few days back, seeks to
include two more conditions namely, thalassaemia and hemophilia in this
category.
Dr
Jitendra Singh said, another major decision taken by the Government with regard
to Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) is to provide hi-tech latest technology
devices including low-vision aids, hearing aids, special furniture,
wheelchairs, software scanners and other necessary hardware to those of the
employees who are already in the government service. For those of the disabled
youth who are not in government service, a special recruitment drive has been
launched from 22nd May this year to fill up vacancies by February 2016, he
added.
Dr
Jitendra Singh also informed that there is an age relaxation of ten years in
upper age limit for the persons with disabilities to apply for jobs to all the
posts under Central Government. In addition, 3% reservation of vacancies for
direct recruitment is applicable to Group A, B, C & D and similarly 3%
reservation of vacancies is also available for promotion applicable to Group C
& D, he added.
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