Court stays recruitment process
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court (HC) has stayed
the recruitment process being conducted by the postal department. During the
entrance examination conducted at 26 centres across the state on March 29, some
visually impaired students in Osmanabad were denied entry on the grounds that
they were accompanied by writers/scribe having qualification above std X.
Thereafter, five visually impaired students had approached the court.
In January this
year, the postal department had invited online applications from eligible
candidates for direct recruitment for the posts of postman/mail guard in
postal/RMS divisions.
The
department's notification clearly provided specific reservation for visually
impaired candidates. Accordingly, the eligible visually impaired candidates
applied by January 24 and were provided online admit cards soon.
Lawyer Swapnil
Tawshikar, who filed a writ petition in the HC on behalf of the aggrieved
party, told TOI, "In the list of instructions mentioned on the admit
cards, visually impaired candidates were allowed to take assistance of
scribe/writers for the said examination. However, 25 such candidates, who
reached the exam centre in Osmanabad, were not allowed to appear for the
examination on the ground that the writers brought by them had education
qualification above matriculation."
Vishal Lohare
(24), a native of from Latur district, along with four students decided to
represent the 25 candidates who were not allowed to appear for the examination.
All the five candidates approached the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay HC and
filed a writ petition through lawyers Tawshikar and Anant Devakate. Tawshikar
said the HC bench comprising justices SS Shinde and PR Bora heard the matter on
April 10. The lawyers told the court the guidelines issued by the central
government make it clear that visually impaired people can take assistance of
writers while appearing for any written examination. The guidelines further
mention that there shall be no restrictions on education qualifications, marks
and age of the writer.
Source:-The
Times of India
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