Notices to colleges for not adhering to disability quota
March 13th, 2010 - 6:30 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, March 13 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Friday issued notices to eight colleges run by the central government for not implementing the disability quota for teachers despite directions.
A division bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Ajit Bharihoke asked the colleges to file their reply by April 16 and state why their orders were not complied with.
Bharti College and Lady Harding Medical College are two of the eight colleges that have not complied with the order.
Colin Gonsalves, counsel for NGO Sambhavana Trust, said: “There are only 39 colleges in Delhi University (DU) that have complied fully with the disability quota, 12 colleges have partially complied and 31 colleges have not complied at all.”
The court was hearing a public interest petition seeking an implementation of the law on quota for disabled candidates for teaching posts.
Sambhavana Trust, a registered society of disabled persons, had alleged that the varsity and its colleges had not implemented the law even 15 years after parliament passed it and six years after the court’s direction in this regard.
It was also submitted that the university, after enactment of the law, had passed a resolution in 1996 to provide three percent reservation for the disabled, out of which two percent was to be given to the visibly handicapped and one percent to orthopaedically handicapped.
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