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NEW DELHI, MARCH 19. The Supreme Court today directed the Centre and the University Grants Commission (UGC) to provide 3 per cent reservation in identified teaching posts for physically and visually disabled persons. A Bench, comprising Justices S. Rajendra Babu and P. Venkatarama Reddy, gave the direction on a petition filed in 1998 by the All-India Confederation of the Blind, which sought such a quota for the physically and visually handicapped. The Bench also directed the UGC to give a relaxation of 5 per cent marks at the master's degree level to the disabled as was being given to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, namely from 55 to 50 per cent marks. The petitioner contended that though the Disabilities Act provided for reservation to the physically and visually handicapped, the UGC refused to provide it. It was also argued that though the Centre had issued instructions that the relaxation of 5 per cent marks available to the SCs/STs would also apply to the disabled, the UGC was not implementing it. On behalf of the UGC, it was submitted that the physically disabled were not covered under Article 16 of the Constitution and, hence, they were not entitled to any reservation in teaching posts, as sought for by the petitioner, and that the relaxation of 5 per cent marks would not apply to the physically handicapped.
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