DHC notice to Centre for not giving job to disabled

New Delhi, Aug 4: The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Centre, Staff Selection Comission (SSC) and Employees State Insurance Corporation ((ESIC) to reply by August 17 as to why they had not given a job to a physically handicapped person despite having a reserved category in the government jobs.

Justice Kailash Gambhir took suo motto notice on the newspaper report in which one Ravi Dutt with 75 per cent disability was not given his due by the government in giving him a job under the reserved quota.

Ravi Dutt is a commerce graduate and holds a diploma in Elementary Teacher Education. He also possesses a computer application certificate. He appeared in the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) examination on August 28, 2006 and for the Employee State Insurance Corporation(ESIC) on October 25, 2006 against the reserved seat category. Although he got good marks more than the required cut-off marks, but has not got any job yet.

The court has intervened on its own, to get a job for Ravi Dutt under the Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation Act, 1995.

The Court has appointed advocate K K Sharma as Amicus Curiae in the matter, to help the candidate for filing his papers in the court.

UNI