Aided Education Institutions Including Minority Institutions Bound To Provide Reservation In Employment For Physically Challenged Persons: Kerala HC [Read Judgment]

The High Court of Kerala has held that the provisions relating to reservation in employment for physically challenged persons would apply to aided Schools and Colleges including minority institutions.Justice PV Asha was considering with the writ petitions filed by NSS Colleges Central Committee and Consortium of Catholic School Managements in Kerala challenging a Kerala Government order. The High Court of Kerala has held that the provisions relating to reservation in employment for physically challenged persons would apply to aided Schools and Colleges including minority institutions. Justice PV Asha was considering with the writ petitions filed by NSS Colleges Central Committee and Consortium of Catholic School Managements in Kerala challenging a Kerala Government order extending the provisions of Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 and Right of Persons with Disability Act, 2016 to all aided educational institutions getting Government aid such as staff salary and other allowances, maintenance grant, etc, with effect from 07.02.1996 and directed that the concerned administrative departments shall instruct all the appointing authorities of such aided institutions to ensure 3% reservation on appointments in aided schools and aided colleges for the period from 7.2.1996 and to provide 4% reservation on appointments in such schools and colleges for the period from 19.4.2017 for the differently abled. As pointed out by the additional respondents and the petitioners, who represent the beneficiaries of the Act, even without directions from the State Government, it is the duty of the managements of aided educational institutions, to see that the differently abled persons are also given appointment under them against the 3%/4% of the vacancies."