New Delhi: Recently, the Delhi High Court has issued notices to eight colleges for not implementing disability quota for teachers, despite directions. All of these colleges are run by the central government. A division bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Ajit Bharihoke asked the colleges to file their reply by April 16. Further, the colleges are asked to state the reason why their orders were not complied with.
Colin Gonsalves, Counsel for NGO Sambhavana Trust, has said there are only 39 colleges in Delhi University (DU) that have complied fully with the disability quota, while 12 colleges have partially complied and 31 colleges have not complied at all. Bharti College and Lady Harding Medical College are among the eight colleges that have not complied with the order. The court was hearing a public interest petition seeking an implementation of the law on quota for disabled candidates for teaching posts. Thereafter, the court has decided to issue the notices to the colleges for not adhering to disability quota for teachers.
Moreover, Sambhavana Trust, a registered society of disabled persons, had alleged that the university and its colleges had not implemented the law even 15 years after the Parliament passed it and six years after the court's direction in this regard. It was also submitted that the university, after enactment of the law, had passed a resolution in 1996 to provide three percent reservation for the disabled, out of which two percent was to be given to the visibly handicapped and one percent to orthopaedically handicap.
