The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has recently started the process to identify 4% of posts of junior engineers (civil and electrical) to be reserved for persons with disabilities (PwD) as mandated by the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
The central construction agency on May 20 wrote to its regional offices to identify 4% of the posts and places where persons with benchmark disabilities, who are those with more than 40% of a specified disability, can be posted. The CPWD asked the regional centres to also make “appropriate reasonable accommodation” for PwD, as the RPwD Act says.
The Act, which came into effect on April 19, 2017, provided for reservation in jobs and promotions as well as the setting up of an expert committee to identify the posts for PwD. Acting on that, the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry’s Department of Empowerment of PwD (DEPwD) had on January 4, 2021 notified a list of posts in government ministries and departments that are applicable for different benchmark disabilities.
