CHENNAI: The state government has constituted a nine-member high level committee to ensure the implementation of 4% reservation for the differently abled in government departments.
Secretary for the department of differently abled welfare would head the panel, while secretaries of labour, human resource management, TN public service commission, cooperative societies' registrar, director for the department of employment and training, teacher recruitment board and medical service recruitment board would be members. The government passed an order in this regard on June 7.
The committee has been constituted following the plea of the representative of the community to chief minister M K Stalin a couple of days ago. Members of the community said it was their long pending demand for a committee to monitor the implementation of 4% reservation for the differently abled as per section 34 (1) of the Right of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016. It would also keep track of the vacancies reserved for the differently abled candidates and ensure it being carried forward.
Apart from monitoring the implementation of the reservation, the panel would also act to clear 1,095 backlog vacancies reserved for differently abled persons in the government sector. These vacancies, according to authorities, were remaining unfilled for decades now. "The government has formed the panel to live up to its promise in fulfilling social justice to differently abled persons," said an official in the department.
