CAT asks railways to appoint visually impaired candidates: Indian Express News
Nearly 10,000 visually challenged candidates appeared for 7,386 vacancies.
Months after Indian Railways rejected a number of candidates for being visually challenged, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has directed Northern Railways to publish a revised merit list and appoint the candidates, who qualified on merit as well as under the disability quota.
Nearly 10,000 visually challenged candidates had reportedly appeared in the examination in November-December 2013 after the railways advertised for 7,386 vacancies. All of them were, however, issued rejection letters before the results were announced for being “100 per cent visually challenged”.
In protest, the applicants filed a petition in CAT, arguing that they are eligible and entitled to be considered for the posts, both on merit as well as under reservation for visually challenged persons.
Arguing for the applicants, lawyer S K Rungta – himself visually challenged – said the Northern Railways’ recruitment cell must file complete results, including the results of 100 per cent visually challenged candidates, so that their merit position could be ascertained.
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