RTI reply- eligibility criteria for the job not fulfilled
4 Sep, 2012
During a camp court in Puri, the Disability Commission had directed the district project coordinator (DPC) of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to appoint a few physically challenged persons as Sikshya Sahayaks as per their merit but it has been claimed that they have not been provided with the jobs.
On the basis of a reply to an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, it has been reported that a person with 38% disability got the job in 2006 although the guidelines state that only persons with 40% and above disability are eligible for the job. In this respect, some disabled persons staged a protest near the office of the State Commission for Persons with Disability in Bhubaneshwar, demanding fulfillment of the guidelines and alleging that the government is not committed to providing jobs to them.