Delhi HC directs DOPT to recruit visually impaired in IAS


In a historic decision, Delhi High Court has directed Department of Personnel and Training of Union Government to recruit within six weeks a visually challenged man Ravi Prakash in Indian Administrative Service. Court also fined DOPT with Rs 25000 and asked it to pay to petitioner Prakash who had sought his recruitment in service by saying that there was a backlog of as many as seven vacancies in IAS for the visually-impaired.

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