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| Topic | concessions |
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disabilities (1%), persons with locomotor disabilities (1%) and persons with
Pathways to Access (Part III) - Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Miscellaneous) List of Abbreviations: ● DEAR: Disabled Employees Association of Railway ● DEPWD: Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India ● DoPT: Department of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Government of India ● MSJE: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India ● O.M.: Office Memorandum ● PWD Act, 1995: Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 ● Railway Board: Railway Board, Ministry of Railways, Government of India. ● RPWDA: Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 ● SC/ST: Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Framework & Approach: This resource document provides a collated, summarised understanding and analysis of the law, and the efforts made towards realising the rights of persons with disabilities pertaining to issues faced by employees of the Railway Board such as, reservations in employment, promotions, allowances etc. Specifically, this compilation contains orders/circulars/notifications of the Railway Board which have been issued in pursuance to the provisions of the RPWDA. As such, the orders/circular/notifications primarily concern employees in the public sector and cover rights/entitlement/benefits/concessions provided to Government employees with disabilities. The orders/circulars/notifications were included based on their evaluation against the following criteria: a) The order/circular/notification of the relevant Department substantially details or clarifies the scope of a right/entitlement/benefit/concession provided to an employee with disability. b) The order/circular/notification of the relevant Department has been issued to implement such a right/entitlement/benefit/concession provided to an employee with disability. Only those orders which meet one or both of the aforesaid criteria have been included in the present document. 1 This document has been prepared in plain English with due care to ensure that their essence is not compromised. The orders were identified through the website of: a) Ministry of Railways (https://indianrailways.gov.in/) b) DEAR (https://www.dearrailway.in/) The particulars of the order/circular/notification are provided in the table below, and are hyperlinked for the convenience of the reader, to the document containing that order/circular/notification on the website of the relevant authority. Further, to allow easy navigation for readers interested in knowing the position of law on specific rights, entitlements, benefits, allowances or concessions, a set of tags for each entry is provided in the fourth column of the database. Appropriate tags have been identified for each entry by taking into account the specific right/benefit/entitlement/concession that the order/circular/notification relates to. Disclaimers: 1. This compilation is for general informational purposes only and is not intended to serve as an official record of any such orders/circulars/notifications. If readers wish to obtain any further information about the orders/circulars/notifications mentioned in this compilation, they are requested to verify the same from the relevant primary sources. 2. The information contained in this compilation is taken from the websites of the Ministry of Railways and DEAR, published and readily available, as on 31 December 2024. Further developments concerning the orders/circulars/notifications mentioned, as well as orders/circulars/notifications which may be dated 31 December 2024 (or a date prior to the said date), but were published on the said website subsequent to 31 December 2024 have not been incorporated in this compilation. 3. Since the RPWDA came into force in April 2017, replacing the PWD Act, 1995, and reflecting India’s
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