India’s Maharashtra state will soon frame a policy for extending benefit of reservation in promotion to persons with disabilities in Group A and Group B posts, an official informed the Bombay high court.
Additional government pleader AM Deshpande informed the bench of justice Sunil Shukre and justice SM Modak that as of now no policy is in place to provide for reservation in promotion to persons with disabilities in Group A and Group B posts, but soon an appropriate decision will be taken for providing reservation in the promotion to persons with disabilities category in consultation with the Indian government.
He was responding to a petition filed by Ravindra Ukey, who is serving on a Group C post, as an extension officer in Nagpur zilla parishad. He had moved HC seeking orders to the state government to promote him to a Group B post, on the basis of a minimum of 3% reservation prescribed for persons with disabilities under section 33 of the Persons with Disabilities (equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) Act, 1995.
He claimed that in 2016, Supreme Court had recognised the right of persons with disabilities to reservation in promotion, and therefore, he was entitled to promotion to a Group B post.
