4% horizontal reservation has been provided to Persons with Benchmark Disabilities as per section 34 of “Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”. The post is identified suitable for the Persons with under noted categories of disabilities as defined in the Schedule of RPWD Act 2016. The Authorized Certifying Authority will be the Medical Board at the District Level. The Medical Board will consist of Chief Medical Officer, Sub- Divisional Medical Officer.
1. LOCOMOTOR DISABILITIES (LD):
A person's inability to execute distinctive activities associated with movement of self and objects resulting from affliction of musculoskeletal or nervous system or both, including Cerebral Palsy, Leprosy Cured, Dwarfism, Muscular Dystrophy and Acid Attack Victims. Orthopedically challenged persons are covered under locomotor disability with following bench mark:
a. OA - One arm affected (Right or Left)
b. OL - One leg affected (Right or Left)
c. OAL - One arm & One Leg affected
d. BL - Both legs affected but not arms
Persons with OA and OAL category should have normal bilateral hand functions.
a. "Leprosy cured person" means a person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering from:
i. Loss of sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation and paresis in the eye and eye-lid but with no manifest deformity;
ii. Manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity;
iii. extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevents him/her from undertaking any gainful occupation, and the expression "leprosy cured" shall be construed accordingly;
b. “Cerebral palsy" means a Group of non-progressive neurological conditions affecting body movements and
muscle coordination, caused by damage to one or more specific areas of the brain, usually occurring before, during or shortly after birth;
c. "Dwarfism" means a medical or genetic condition resulting in an adult height of 4 feet 10 inches (147 centimeters) or less; An orthopedically challenged persons is one having a minimum of 40% of physical defect or deformity which causes interference with the normal functioning of the bones, muscles and joints and is so certified by a Medical Board appointed by the State Government.
d. "Muscular dystrophy" means a group of hereditary genetic muscle disease that weakens the muscles that move the human body and persons with multiple dystrophy have incorrect and missing information in their genes, which prevents them from making the proteins they need for healthy muscles. It is characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue;
e. "Acid attack victims" means a person disfigured due to violent assaults by throwing of acid or similar corrosive substance.
02. VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (VI): Only those Visually Impaired (VI) persons who suffer from any one of the following conditions, after best correction, are eligible to apply.
a. Blindness:
i. Total absence of sight; OR
ii. Visual acuity less than 6/60 or less than 20/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible correction; OR
iii. Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 20 degree or worse and so certified by a Medical Board appointed by the State Government.
iv. A person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment of standard refractive correction but who users or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of a task with appropriate assistive device.
b. Low Vision:
i. Visual acuity not exceeding 6/18 or less than 20/60 upto 6/60 or upto 20/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible corrections; OR
ii. Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 50 degree, Heminaopia with macular involvement, Altitudinal defect involving lower fields.
03. HEARING IMPAIRED (HI):-
The Deaf are those persons in whom the sense of hearing is non-functional for ordinary purposes of life i.e total loss of hearing in both ears. They do not hear; understand sounds at all even with amplified speech.
a. Deaf: means person having 70 DB hearing loss in speech frequencies in both ears.
b. Hard of Hearing: means person having 60 DB to 70 DB hearing loss in speech frequencies in both ears.
04. ‘d’ & ‘e’:-
Only those persons, who suffer from any one of the following types of disabilities, are eligible to apply under this category:
a. “Specific Learning Disability” (SLD) means a heterogeneous group of conditions wherein there is a
deficit in processing language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself as a difficulty to comprehend, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations and includes such conditions as perceptual disabilities, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia and developmental aphasia.
b. “Mental Illness” (MI) means a substantial disorder of thinking, mood, perception, orientation or memory that grossly impairs judgment, behavior, capacity to recognize reality or ability to meet the ordinary demands of life, but does not include retardation which is a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind of a. person, specially characterized by sub normality of intelligence
c.
“Multiple Disabilities” means multiple disabilities amongst LD, VI, HI, SLD & MI.