Chizokho Vero
November 28
KOHIMA (MExN): The government has not made a job reservation policy for disabled persons with regard to the first and second classes as stated in the persons with disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995. The state government should reserve 5 percent of vacancies for various posts as per the schedule to the notification meant for direct recruitment in the Government of Nagaland and its public undertakings.
Sources told The Morung Express that the post in respect of the first and second classes are yet to be identified and reservations for disabled persons are yet to be made.
“The notification in nature was discriminatory as it made classification between the first and the second class and the third and the fourth grade. In respect to the first and second class, the government has not made a reservation policy but only for the third and fourth grade”, says advocate Theyo.
He told The Morung Express that “it suffers from what the Act of disabilities envisioned as made very clear according to sections 32 and 33 of the Act to make reservation for all classes of grade of government job”.
Having heard the plea of disabled persons in Nagaland, Advocates R.Iralu and V. Theyo advocated the cause of disabled persons-Victor Vero in Guwahati High Court, Kohima Bench, challenging the notification as it has not been reserved for first and second classes. Victor Vero, having hearing impairment applied for the post of English Lecturer in Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC).
The Guwahati High Court, Kohima Bench passed a judgment and order having been heard a writ petition on October 6, 2005.
Victor, (the petitioner) who has been working as a Lecturer in English in Zunheboto College on contract basis, applied for the post of Lecturer in English and appeared for the personality test in 2001.
Claiming the petitioner is a disabled person within the meaning of the Disability Act, 1995, he has been categorized as a physically handicapped/disabled person by the medical board.
On making enquiry, the petitioner came to know that there was no reservation on the posts of lecturer in English in the colleges, falling under Higher and Technical, has been made, though; according to the petitioner, it was incumbent on the part of the government to make necessary reservation, in this regard, in terms of the Act.
The petitioner, the judgment said, has accordingly approached the court, with the help of the present writ petition, seeking issuance of appropriate writ or writs to the respondents commanding them to consider the petitioners case for appointment as lecturer in English within the reservation quota meant for disabled persons in Nagaland state.
