Provide 3% quota to disabled: SC

Provide 3% quota to disabled: SC
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Provide 3% Quota to Disabled: Supreme Court. The Supreme Court on Friday held that three per cent reservation for differently-abled persons be given in all categories of government jobs including in appointments and promotions to IAS while pulling up the Centre for \"frustrating\" the very purpose of empowering legislation by opposing it.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday held that three per cent reservation for differently-abled persons be given in all categories of government jobs including in appointments and promotions to IAS while pulling up the Centre for "frustrating" the very purpose of empowering legislation by opposing it.

A bench headed by Chief Justice RM Lodha said the disabled persons have not got their due in the last 19 years after framing of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, which was passed in 1995.

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