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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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