Haryana Government has decided to launch a special recruitment drive for persons with disability (PwD) and eligible sports persons (ESP) in case of direct recruitment posts in group D in the state.
All the Administrative Departments have been asked to send requisition of PWD and ESP in Group D (except for posts of Sweeper, Chowkidar and Sweeper-cum-Chowkidar) to Haryana Staff Selection Commission.
In case of PWD, the 4 per cent horizontal reservation would be computed cadre wise on basis of total number of posts in the cadre minus existing PWD strength. However, in case of ESP, the requisition would be prepared cadre wise at rate of 10 per cent of total vacancies in each cadre. Both the requisitions i.e. for PWD and ESP vacancies could be sent to Haryana Staff Selection Commission by April 30, said a spokesman of General Administration Department.
The State Government has also issued instructions regarding reservation for persons with disabilities in posts and services under the state.
Under this, four percent of the posts or cadre in case of direct recruitment to group A, B, C and D posts or services would be reserved for persons with benchmark disabilities of which one per-cent each would be reserved for persons with benchmark disabilities like blindness and low vision, deaf and hard of hearing and locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy and one per-cent for persons with benchmark disabilities like autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness and multiple disabilities from amongst persons including deaf-blindness in the posts identified for each disabilities.
The spokesman said that every government department would identify posts in the departments which could be held by respective category of persons with benchmark disabilities in respect of the vacancies reserved. Besides it would constitute an expert committee with representation of persons with benchmark disabilities for identification of such posts and undertake periodic review of the identified posts at an interval not exceeding three years.
Every appointing authority or Department would send annual report regarding representation of Persons with Disabilities, showing position as on first of January every year to the Social Justice and Empowerment Department who would compile the data being the Nodal Department, said he.
While referring to the relaxation in age limit, he said that upper age limit for persons with disabilities would be relaxable by ten years (15 years for Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes) in case of direct, recruitment to Group ‘C' and D' posts by 5 years (10 years for SCs/BCs) in case of direct recruitment to Group 'A’ and Group 'B' posts where recruitment is made otherwise than through open competitive examination and by ten years (15 years for SCs/BCs) in case of direct recruitment to Group 'A' and Group 'B' posts through open competitive examination.