GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA
PRADESH
Disabled Welfare - The persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 - Section 33 of the Act - Safeguard against non-implementation of the provisions of the Section 33 of the Act - Furnishing of a Certificate to the Recruiting Agencies while making recruitment to the posts identified as suitable for being manned by persons with disabilities - Orders - Issued.
WOMEN DEVELOPMENT, CHILD WELFARE & DISABLED WELFARE (D.W) DEPARTMENT
G.O. Ms. No. 16. Dated:06.06.2000
Read the following:
l.
F.No.25-A.P./CCD/98/2391, dated: 27-09-1999 from Chief Commissioner for the
Disabilities.
2.
From the Commissioner, Disabled Welfare, Hyderabad, Note.No.C1/5151/99 dated
25.10.1999.
ORDER:
The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Central Act I of 1996 came into force from 07-02- 1996. After the enactment of this Act, it has become necessary that the provisions contained therein relating to filling up of the posts meant for persons with Disabilities, shall be implemented in right earnest. According to Section 33 of the aforesaid Act "every appropriate Government shall appoint in every establishment such percentage of vacancies not less than 3% (three percent) of persons or class of persons with disability of which one per cent each shall be reserved for persons suffering from:
(i)
blindness or low vision;
(ii)
hearing impairment;
(iii) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy in the posts identified for each disability;
In case the appropriate Government having regard to the type of work carried on in any Department or Establishment, by notification subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in such notification, exempt any Establishment from the provisions of this Section.
2. In the reference second read above, the Chief Commissioner for Disabilities has brought to the notice of the Government that several persons who are disabled submitted complaint against the Government Public Prosecutor under training and Autonomous Bodies for not implementing the rule of reservation in appointment up to a 3% in respect of the persons with disabilities as stipulated in the aforesaid provisions of Law. He has therefore, requested to issue necessary instructions making it mandatory for all the Departments to follow the rule of reservation to the disabled persons and to furnish a Certificate, while sending requisitions to the Recruiting Agencies in the State, to the effect that as per the provisions of the said Act relating 3% reservation for persons with disabilities have been followed scrupulously.
3. In the circumstances stated by the Chief Commissioner for Disabilities and in order to ensure strict implementation of Section 33 of the said Act, the Government hereby direct that all the Departments of the Government shall furnish a Certificate while sending requisitions to the A.P. Public Service Commission, A.P. College Service Commission, District Selection Committee, Employment Exchanges etc., that the provisions relating to the 3% reservation towards persons with Disabilities have been strictly followed. If they failed to furnish such information to implement 3% reservation for the appointment of the disabled persons, the Recruiting Agencies shall not accept the proposals from the Departments. (in the absence of 3% reservation Implementation Certificates for disabled).
4. All the Departments of Secretariat are therefore requested to bring these instructions to the notice of all the Appointing Authorities for strict compliance.
(By Order and in the name of the Governor of Andhra
Pradesh)
