CONCESSIONS TO PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES – A SUM UP
Physically Challenged central
Government employees and Disabled Central Government Employees are provided
with various concessions in the form of additional Allowance, leave,
reduced rate interest, out of turn allotment etc.
Those concessions are listed as
follows. Readers are requested to write about additional concessions if any as
comments to this article
1. Special Disability Leave
2. Ad Hoc allotment of
quarter to Handicapped employee
3. Ad Hoc allotment of
quarter to Handicapped employee
4. Reservation for Person with
Disabilities
5. Age Relaxation, Fee Concession,
and exemption from Typing Test while joining Central Government Service
6. Transport Allowance at double the
rates
7. Income Tax Exemption
for Physically Challenged and disabled Salaried Class Employees
8. Special Allowance for child care
for women with disabilities and Education Allowance for disabled children of
Govt. employees
9. Grant of Children Education
Allowance at higher Rates
10. LTC facility for an escort
accompanying single handicapped Government servant
11. Employees can use own / hired
Car for LTC if employee or family member is Physically Challenged and disabled
1. SPECIAL DISABILITY LEAVE
Admissible to all employees- When
disabled by injury intentionally or accidentally inflicted or caused in, or in
consequence of the due performance of official duties or in
consequence of official position.
When disabled by illness incurred in
in the performance of any particular duty, which has the effect
of increasing liabilities to illness of injury beyond the ordinary
risk attaching to the civil post held under the same condition.
The disability should have
manifested within three months of the occurrence to which it is attribute and
the person disabled had acted with due promptitude in bringing it to notice.
The leave sanctioning authority, if satisfied as to the cause of the
disability, may relax the condition and grant leave in case where disability has
manifested more than three months after the occurrence of its cause.
The disability should be certified
by an Authorized Medical Attendant to be directly due to the particular duty.
If it has been contracted during service other than with a military force, the
leave sanctioning authority should be satisfied that the disability is
exceptional in character.
The period of leave will be as
certified by an Authorized Medical Attendant subject to a maximum of 24 month.
It may be granted more than once if
the disability is aggravated or recurs in similar circumstances at a later
date, but the maximum leave in consequences of any one disability should not
exceed 24 months.
It may be combined with any other
kind of leave.
It willas service for pension.
It will not be debited to the leave
account.
The leave salary for the first 120
days will be the pay last drawn and for the remaining period, it will be equal
to leave salary during half pay leave, in such cases, beyond the first 120 days
the official may take half leave (at his credit) for another 120 days along
with the special disability leave simultaneously and get leave salary equal to
that on eared leave. The half pay leave so taken will be debited to his leave
account.
If the official is entitled to any
benefit under the Workmen’s Compensation Act the Employee’s state Insurance
Act. The amount of leave salary will be reduced by the amount of benefit
payable under the above Acts.
Appointing authors are competent to
sanction Special Disability Leave-Rule 44 and 45.
2. SPECIAL CASUAL LEAVE
Special Casual leave not more than
10 days in a calendar year may be granted to attend Conferences/ Seminars/
Training/ Workshop related to Disability and devolvement– related programmers
organized at national and State Level agencies, Absence in excess of 10 days
may be treated as regular leave due and admissible and it can also combined
with regular leave –On dated 14-11-2007.
3. AD HOC ALLOTMENT OF
QUARTER TO HANDICAPPED EMPLOYEE
Ad hoc allotment of quarter to
handicapped employees will be considered in the following cases:-
- The blind i,.e those who suffer
form either of –
(a) Total absence of sight.
(b) Visual Acuity not exceeding
6/90 or 20/200(snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses.
(c) Impression of the field of
the vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse.
- The deaf, having hearing loss of
more than 90 decibels in the better ear (profoundimpairment)or total loss of
hearing in both ears.
- The orthopedicallly handicapped to
the extent of 40% and above disability,
- Mentally handicapped / spastic
dependents
4. RESERVATION FOR PERSON WITH
DISABILITIES
- Categories -
(a) Blindness or low vision;
(b) Hearing impairment;
(c) Locomoter disability or
cerebral palsy. [Includes all cases of orthopedically handicapped persons.]
Reservation is admissible only for
those who suffer form not less than 40 percent of relevant disability.
For Direct Recruitment.-
admissible for all Groups, viz. Group ‘A’ ,Group ‘B’, Group ‘C’, Group ‘D’.
For promotion – Admissible
to Group D and Group c posts only in which the elements of
direct recruitment ,if any, does not exceed 75 percent [(i) within
Group D (ii) form Group ‘D’ and(iii) within Group C].
Percentage of reservation – Three
percent ( 1% for each of the three categories mentioned above). If a candidate
of a particular category is not available or if the nature may be vacancy may
be exchanged for a vacancy against another among the 3 categories.
Carry forward of reservation.-
Unfilled reserved vacancies will be carried forward to the next block in he
same year first .unfilled vacancies at the end of the year will be carried
forward to the three subsequent year.
5. AGE RELAXATION, FEE CONCESSION,
AND EXEMPTION FROM TYPING TEST WHILE JOINING CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Age:
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Central Government Post
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Age Relaxation **
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For Groups ‘C’ and ’D’ Posts/ services
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10 years for
recruitment through
SSC/Employment
Exchange
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For Groups ‘A’ and ‘B’ Posts/services
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10 years for
recruitment through
Open Competitive
examinations
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**5 year in other cases. This age
relaxation is applicable to Disabled and Physically Challenged Candidates
aspiring for Central Government Jobs. In respect of SC/ST/OBS candidates,
this is over and above the admissible relaxation of 5 years for SC/ST and
3 years for OBC.
Fee:
Physically Challenged and disabled
Candidates aspiring for Central Government Jobs are exempted from examination
fee / application fee for competitive examination conducted by UPSC / SSC for
all posts.
Typing Test:
Physically Challenged Candidates are
exempted from passing Typing Test which is mandatory for certain clerical Posts
in Central Government Service, if medical board attached to Employment Exchange
certifies that candidates who seeks exemption from Typing Test are unable to
use typewriting machine.
6. TRANSPORT ALLOWANCE AT DOUBLE THE
RATES
The blind or orthopaedically
handicapped employee in terms of this Ministry’s orders vide OM No
21(1) 97-E-II(B) dated 3.10.1997 shall continue to draw Transport allowance at
double the normal rates mentioned in the table below. It is also specified by
Government that Transport allowance in respect of Physically Challenged and
disabled employees in no case, be less than Rs.1000 per month plus the
applicable rate of dearness allowance.
The Normal rates of Transport
Allowance are as follows.
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Employees drawing grade of pay
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Rate of transport
allowance per month
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13 cities
previously
classified as
‘A-1’1’A’
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Other Places
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Grade Pay of Rs. 5,400
and above
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Rs. 3200+DA
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Rs. 1600 + DA
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(i) Grade Pay of Rs. 4.200
, Rs. 4,600 and Rs.,4,800
(ii) Grade Pay below
Rs.4,200 but drawing
pay in the pay band
equal to Rs. 7,440 and above
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Rs. 1600+DA
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Rs. 800 + DA
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Grade Pay Below
Rs. 4,200 and pay
in the pay band below Rs. 7,440
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Rs.600+DA
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Rs. 400 + DA
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Note: Not admissible to Employees who have been provided with
facility of Government transport.
7. INCOME TAX EXEMPTION FOR
PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED AND DISABLED SALARIED CLASS EMPLOYEES / DEPENDENTS
As per Section 80 U Salaried Class
Employee who are partially or totally blind or physically handicapped a sum of
Rs.50,000 can be deducted from the total income of the assessee, if he is a
person with disability and Rs.75,000 if he is a person with severe
disability.Section 80DD allows a deduction to an individual or HUF if the
person has incurred in the previous year any expenditure
on medical treatment (including nursing), training and rehabilitation
of a dependant with a disability or paid or deposited any amount under a scheme
framed in this behalf by an insurer for the maintenance of a dependant with a
disability.
A person with a disability is one
suffering from not less than 40 per cent of a disability (as certified by a
medical authority working in a hospital or institution notified by the
Government), which could be blindness, low vision, leprosy – cured, hearing
impairment, locomotor disability, mental retardation, mental illness.
Hearing impairment, for this
purpose, means a loss of 60 decibels or more in the better ear in the
conversational range of frequencies.
A person with disability also
includes the one suffering from autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation or a
combination of any two or more. Section 80DD allows a deduction of up to Rs
50,000 a year and if the disability is severe, up to Rs 1,00,000 a year. Severe
disability means a person with 80 per cent or more of the disability.
8. SPECIAL ALLOWANCE FOR CHILD CARE
FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES AND EDUCATION ALLOWANCE FOR DISABLED CHILDREN OF
GOVT. EMPLOYEES
Consequent upon the decision taken
by the Government on the recommendations made by the Sixth Central Pay
Commission for providing extra benefits to women employees with disabilities
especially when they have young children and children with disability, the
President is pleased to issue the following instructions :-
(a) Women with disabilities
shall be paid Rs. 1000/- per month as Special Allowance for Child care. The
allowance shall be payable from the time of the child’s birth till the child is
two year old.
(b) It shall be payable for a
maximum of two children.
(c) Disability means a person
having a minimum Disability of 40% as elaborated in Ministry of Welfare’s
Notification No.16-18/97-NI.I dated 1.6.2001.(Annexure)
(d) The above limit would be
automatically raised by 25% every time the Dearness Allowance on the revised
pay structure goes up by 50%.
9. GRANT OF CHILDREN EDUCATION
ALLOWANCE AT HIGHER RATES
Children Education Allowance for disabled
children of Government employees shall be payable at double the normal rates
prescribed. After DA Crossed 50% Children Education Allowance and Hostel
Subsidy have been fixed as Rs.15,000 and Rs.45,000 respectively. The rest of
the conditions will be the same as stipulated vide OM No. 12011/03/2008-Estt.
(Allowance) dated 2nd September, 2008 applicable in respect of Chidren
Education Allowance.
10. LTC FACILITY FOR AN ESCORT
ACCOMPANYING SINGLE HANDICAPPED GOVERNMENT SERVANT
LTC facility could be allowed for an
escort who accompanies a handicapped Govt. servant on the journey subject to
the following conditions:-
(i) Prior approval of the Head of
the Department concerned is obtained on each occasion.
(ii) The nature of physical disability
of the Govt. servant is such as to necessitate an escort for the journey. In
case of doubt, the decision of the Head of the Department will be final.
(iii) The physically handicapped
Govt. servant does not have an adult family member.
(iv) Any other person who is
entitled to LTC does not accompany the handicapped Govt. servant on the
journey.
11. EMPLOYEES CAN USE OWN / HIRED
CAR FOR LTC IF EMPLOYEE OR FAMILY MEMBER IS PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED AND DISABLED
LTC Rules authorizes the Head of
Department to allow use of own / hired car for LTC journey on account of
disability of the Government servant or dependent family member after obtaining
following documents to avoid misuse of such relaxation:-
(i) Medical Certificate from
competent authority.
(ii) Undertaking from Government
servant that journey in authorized mode is not feasible and he actually
travelled by own car/hired taxi.
