The Hindu, COIMBATORE, August 20, 2012
NILEENA M.S.
Even as repeated complaints have been registered about flaws in implementation of policies and schemes for differently abled persons from across the country, a Government body under Health and Family Welfare Department has said that it was not given any directions on job reservation for differently abled persons.
In response to a Right to Information application filed by a job applicant, Tamil Nadu Aids Control Society, Chennai, had responded that it was not given any direction on this by its parent body National Aids Control Organisation. According to TANSACS, only HIV/AIDS affected people were given priority during recruitment.
TANSACS had conducted examination to recruit people for the post of counsellors. The applications sent by differently abled Master of Social Work graduates under general category and not as persons with disabilities, said M. Kamaraj, Coordinator of Thiramai, an association for differently abled persons.
R. Dharmaraj from Tiruchy and G. Veeravel from Theni, both Master of Social Work graduates, also have a similar story to tell. “We are orthopaedically disabled and a counselling job would be ideal for us. Even if we have the required qualifications set by TANSACS, we couldn't get the job because we had to compete in the general category.” As per Government policy, three per cent reservation for differently abled persons should be followed in all Government and Governmental undertakings. According to Mr. Kamaraj, for his repeated enquiries TANSACS responded that they did not have provisions to reserve posts for differently abled. TANSACS, in response to another RTI said as of January 2011, there were 65 differently abled persons working as counsellors (14) and lab technicians (51) among 1,971 employees at TANSACS. It responded to the applicant’s queries that they were not recruited because appointments were made based on the marks scored in the recruitment test. Repeated attempts to reach the officials at TANSACS turned futile.
“Many of the Government and Government-aided establishments do not adhere to reservation norms. Most often we had to approach the Court after filing our applications under the general category. In majority of the cases, the complainants were given jobs under reservation category as per the Court judgement,” said Surya Nagappan, president of Caliber Trust, an organisation for differently abled persons.
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