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Showing posts with label The Persons with Disabilities Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Persons with Disabilities Act. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Supreme Court of India wants an Expert Panel To Determine What Areas of Medical Practice Can Colour-blind MBBS Aspirants Study based on international best practices [Judgement Included]

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Court: Supreme Court of India Bench: Hon'ble Chief  Justice Dipak Misra, Justice  Amitava Roy  and Justice AM Khanwilkar   Case No:   ...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Gujrat HC Judge, Advocate & Govt Pleader work in tandem to grant appointment to candidate with Cerebral Palsy [Judgement Included]

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Dear Colleagues, A single bench of Gujarat High Court has asked the State Govt. to appoint a man with cerebral palsy on the post of Su...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Right to Dignity - a Consititutional Right of the Female Disabled Employee will Prevail over Employer's Right to Take Work, says Kerala HC [Judgement Included]

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Dear Colleagues, Here is a classic case where the Indian Railways has been wasting the exchequer's money in unnecessary legal batt...
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Friday, January 8, 2016

Kerala High Court insists the 3% reservation computation from 1996 [Judgement Included]

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Court: Kerala High Court Bench: Justice Thottathil B Radhakrishnan and Justice Anu Sivaraman Case No. : Writ Appeal No. 362 of 2015 ( Again...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

SC directs States & UTs to consider Acid Attack Survivors in Disability List [Judgement Included]

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Dear Friends, On Monday i.e. 07th December 2015, t he Hon'ble Supreme Court of India, while hearing WP(C) No. 867/2013 titled  Par...
Friday, September 4, 2015

Supreme Court of India fumes at Several states silent on implementation of Disabilities Act |

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4th Sep, 2015 Bringing into focus the plight of disabled people, the Supreme Court today fumed at several states not filing responses as ...
Friday, October 10, 2014

Chief Commissioner Disabilities directs UPSC to withdraw discriminatory performa

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UPSC asked to withdraw ‘discriminatory proforma’ The Court of Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disability has directed the Union Pu...
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Friday, March 28, 2014

Not providing reservation for disabled in Higher Judicial Service amounts to Discrimination - rules Delhi HC

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A Division bench of Delhi High Court presided by Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Justice R.V. Easwar observed that arbitrary denial of 3% res...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Delhi HC issues notices to Civic Agencies on Barrier Free Pedestrian Infrastructure

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A Division Bench headed by the Acting Chief Justice B. D. Ahmed and Justice Sidharth Mridul of Delhi High Court on 26 March 2014, issued n...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

Denying the disabled

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Indian courts have shown that they are ready for progressive interpretations of the law on the rights of persons with disabilities. Theref...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Visually Impaired Civil Service aspirants await appointments

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No Country for Visually Challenged Persons   The focus of the write-up by Mr. Subhash Ghatage (kafila.org) is the plight of four candi...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Extend legal protetction for impairments not covered under the PwD Act 1995 - mandate of SC

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Please refer to earlier post titled " SC directs the Govt. to give suitable jobs to employees with Mental Illness " dated 19 Aug...
Monday, August 5, 2013

Mechanical and Rigid implementation of Disabilities Act is against the legislative intent

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Dear Colleagues, The cases as below wherein the courts as well as lawyers fail to appreciate the basic intention of the legislature be...

Disabilities can't be restricted to those in the PwD Act 1995

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Dear Colleages, The present medical model of disability in the Disability Act and as understood by the Courts has some serious shortco...