(A) Persons with Benchmark Disabilities:
Under Section 34 of “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”, persons with
benchmark disabilities are eligible for reservation. All the above posts are identified
suitable for the persons under categories of disabilities as defined in the Schedule of
RPWD Act 2016 and notified by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities (Divyangjan) from time to time.
I. “OC” Category: 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 Leprosy Cured, Cerebral Palsy, Dwarfism,
Muscular Dystrophy and Acid Attack Victims. Orthopedically challenged
persons along with the following benchmarks are covered under locomotor
disability:
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 centimetres) or less;
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 characterised 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.
II. “VI” Category (Visually Impaired): 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 3/60 or less than 10/200 (Snellen) in the better
eye with best possible correction; or
iii. Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 10
degree.
b. Low Vision:
i. Visual acuity not exceeding 6/18 or less than 20/60 upto 3/60 or upto
10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible corrections; or
ii. Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 40
degree up to 10 degree.
III. “HI” Category (Hearing Impaired):
a. Deaf: means a person having 70 DB hearing loss in speech frequencies in
both ears.
b. Hard of Hearing: means a person having 60 DB to 70 DB hearing loss in
speech frequencies in both ears.
IV. “ID” Category: Only those persons, who suffer from any one of the following
types of disabilities, are eligible to apply under this category:
a. Intellectual Disability:
i. “Autism Spectrum Disorder” (ASD) means a neuro-developmental
condition typically appearing in the first three years of life that
significantly affects a person's ability to communicate, understand
relationships and relate to others, and is frequently associated with
unusual or stereotypical rituals or behaviors.
ii. “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.
iii. “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.
b. “Multiple Disabilities” means multiple disabilities amongst clause I, II, III
and IV (a) under para 2.4 (B) as mentioned above.
NOTE:
a. DoP&T in consultation with Department of Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities (DEPwD) vide OM No. 36035/8/2023-Estt. (Res-II) dated 19.05.2023
has advised that it may not be appropriate to grant the benefit of reservation in
jobs which are permanent in nature on the basis of temporary certificate of
disability as this will have adverse bearing on genuine persons with benchmark
disabilities with irreversible permanent disability.
b. Only persons with benchmark disabilities would be eligible for reservation.
“Benchmark disability” means a person with not less than 40% of a specified
disability where specified disability has not been defined in measurable terms and
includes the persons with disability, where disability has been defined in
measurable terms, as certified by the certifying authority.
c. A person who wants to avail benefit of reservation will have to submit a permanent
disability certificate issued by a competent authority as per Government of India
guidelines and this certificate will be subject to verification/ re-verification as may
be decided by the Bank.
d. The allocation of reserved vacancies for the persons with benchmark disabilities
will be as prescribed in the “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016” and
as per vacancies prescribed by the Bank.
