Guidelines for providing certain facilities in respect of persons with disabilities who are already employed in Government for efficient performance of their duties.

No.36035/3/2013-Estt.(Res) 

Government of India 

Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions 

Department of Personnel and Training 

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North Block, New Delhi

Dated the 31st March, 2014

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject:  Guidelines for providing certain facilities in respect of persons with disabilities who are already employed in Government for efficient performance of their duties.

A need has been felt to issue guidelines to provide certain additional facilities /amenities to the persons with disabilities (PWD) to enable them to effectively discharge  their duties. The facilities such as identification of jobs, post recruitment and pre-promotion training, assistive devices, free accessibility, preference in transfer/posting,  special casual leave, etc. have been identified as areas which require special attention.  The proposed facility indicated in the guidelines should be applicable in respect of such  employees working in the Ministries/Departments of the Government of India, their  attached and subordinate offices, Central Public Sector Enterprises, Cantonment Boards  etc. 

2. An inter-ministerial committee was formed to finalise guidelines for providing  certain facilities in respect of persons with disabilities, who are already employed in  efficient discharge of their duties. Based on the discussions held with the stakeholders  and suggestion received from the stakeholders, the following guidelines are issued to  provide certain facilities/amenities to the persons with disabilities:- 

A.        Identification of jobs  Each Ministry/Department of the Government of India, their attached and subordinate offices, Central Public Sector Enterprises, Cantonment Boards etc should  identify the types of jobs which could be easily performed by them specially for Group B,  C and D posts where the number of jobs are more. Such persons should preferably be  posted to perform such identified jobs and they be allowed to continue performing such  jobs, as far as possible. If the concerned PWD officer could perform all the jobs as people  without disability or could perform several types of jobs efficiently, no effort should be  made to instruct them to certain types of jobs only. 

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