{"id":166245,"date":"2021-07-14T02:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=166245"},"modified":"2021-07-14T02:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T21:08:49","slug":"pwds-seek-4-job-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/07\/14\/pwds-seek-4-job-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"PwDs seek\u00a0 4% job reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 13 Jul:<\/strong> The Arunachal Handicapped Welfare Society has appealed to the state government to direct all the government departments to implement the 4 percent job reservation for persons with disabilities (PwD) in letter and spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a memorandum to the chief minister, the society rued that some government departments are not implementing the job reservation for the PwDs, despite the departments having such provision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also appealed to the chief minister to ensure that &#8220;disable pensions&#8221; are paid to bona fide PwDs regularly as they are facing financial hardships due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stating that the state&#8217;s advisory board on PwDs remains defunct since its constitution, the society urged the chief minister to reconstitute the board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It appealed for appointment of an experienced and qualified member from among the PwDs as &#8220;assistant disable commissioner,&#8221; in line with various other states, to look after the affairs of the PwDs. The society also sought &#8220;implementation of the national handicapped finance corporations,&#8221; so that the PwDs can avail subsidized loans from micro-financiers or other financial establishments to start small businesses on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 13 Jul: The Arunachal Handicapped Welfare Society has appealed to the state government to direct all the government departments to implement the 4 percent job reservation for persons with disabilities (PwD) in letter and spirit. In a memorandum to the chief minister, the society rued that some government departments are not implementing the job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-166245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}