Lok Sabha Question No. 313 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-05
Subject: Reservation to Differently Abled Persons
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: KAPIL MORESHWAR PATIL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT (Divyangjan)

## DEPARTMENT OF EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 313 TO BE ANSWERED ON 05.02.2019

## Reservation to Differently Abled Persons

## 313. SHRI KAPIL MORESHWAR PATIL:

## Will the Minister of SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT be

## state: pleased to

- (a) the existing provisions to provide reservation to differently-abled persons in the Public establishments and Public Undertakings;
- (b) the status of the implementation of the aforesaid provisions in the various Government Institutions;
- the percentage of differently abled persons covered SO far out of their total
- (c) population;
- (d) whether the Government proposes to provide any reservation to the differently abled persons in the private sector also;
- (e) if s0, the details thereof and the achievements thereon; and
- (f) the taken / proposed to be taken in this regard in coordination with the Central Departments, State Governments, etc? steps

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT (SHRI KRISHANPAL GURJAR)

(a) to (c) Section 34(1) of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2016 (RPwD Act; 2016) provides for reservation of not less than four percent of the vacancies in Government establishment   including public   undertakings for persons with benchmark disabilities in the category of (a) blindness and low vision; (b) deaf and acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy; (d) autism, intellectual Act, hard of hearing; (c) locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, disability, specific learning disability and mental illness; (e) multiple disabilities

from amongst persons under clauses posts identified for each (a) to (d) including deaf-blindness in the disabilities:

on 15/01/2018 to all Ministries/= instructions provision\_ 'Departments for implementation of this

According to Department of  Personnel & provided by various (DoP&T) , as per  data includes   their attached Ministries /Departments of the Central Government which disabilities and subordinate  offices, the number of appointed through direct recruitment persons with 2014,2015 and 2016 as on 1st January of the years were as under: Training

| As on      | [Number of [Ministries Departments Number who uploaded the information   | of  Persons with havel Disabilities appointed through   |
|------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
| 01.01.2014 | 78                                                                       | recruitment                                             |
| 01.01.2015 | 77                                                                       | 2519                                                    |
| 01.01.2016 |                                                                          | 2059                                                    |
|            |                                                                          | 1767                                                    |

(d) to (9) Section 35 of the RPwD the local authorities, 2016 mandates appropriate Government and within the limit of their economic to provide incentives to employer in capacity and development; cent: of their work force private sector to ensure that at least five per is composed of persons with benchmark disability. Act,

The implements incentive scheme for persons with disabilities in the private providing employment to sector. Ministry