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Under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act of 2016, persons with benchmark disabilities are eligible for reservation in government jobs. The Act specifies five categories of disabilities that qualify for reservation: blindness and low vision, deafness and hard of hearing, locomotor disabilities, intellectual and learning disabilities including autism and mental illness, and multiple disabilities from among those listed. The disabilities are defined as per the 2016 Act.

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Disability PDF

Under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act of 2016, persons with benchmark disabilities are eligible for reservation in government jobs. The Act specifies five categories of disabilities that qualify for reservation: blindness and low vision, deafness and hard of hearing, locomotor disabilities, intellectual and learning disabilities including autism and mental illness, and multiple disabilities from among those listed. The disabilities are defined as per the 2016 Act.

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Reservation for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities

Under section 34 of “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”, persons with benchmark
disabilities are eligible for Reservation. The reserved categories of disabilities mentioned under
this Act are namely:

a. Blindness and low vision;


b. deaf and hard of hearing;
c. locomotor disability including cerebral palsy. leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and
muscular dystrophy;
d. autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness;
e. multiple disabilities from amongst persons under clauses (a) to (d) including deaf-blindness in the
posts identified for each disabilities:

Note: Definition of the above specified disabilities will be as per “THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS
WITH DISABILITIES ACT, 2016”.

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