{"id":281404,"date":"2026-04-20T00:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=281404"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:25:13","slug":"appeal-for-pwbd-medical-verification-before-appsc-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/appeal-for-pwbd-medical-verification-before-appsc-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for PwBD medical verification before APPSC interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am a genuine person with benchmark disability (PwBD) who reached the APPSC 2024 interview stage but was not selected. I accepted it as my own shortcoming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later, I learnt from credible sources that some candidates without 40% benchmark disability secured selection under the PwBD quota using questionable certificates. As per the RPwD Act, 2016, only 40% or above qualifies. A person with one good eye or ear does not meet this. Yet, I met such a candidate in the APPSC 2024 interview, who later made the final list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fault lies not with the APPSC but with misuse of certificates. This also happened in APSSB CSL 2025, where a person who can play football and didn&#8217;t need spectacles for vision got selected under the PwBD (low vision) quota.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I humbly appeal to the APPSC to conduct medical verification of all PwBD candidates before interviews through a specialist board. This will ensure that the quota reaches the truly eligible, uphold fairness, and protect genuine PwBD aspirants who cannot compete with general candidates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This appeal is made with full respect for the APPSC&#8217;s transparent functioning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A genuine PwBD aspirant\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor, I am a genuine person with benchmark disability (PwBD) who reached the APPSC 2024 interview stage but was not selected. I accepted it as my own shortcoming. Later, I learnt from credible sources that some candidates without 40% benchmark disability secured selection under the PwBD quota using questionable certificates. As per the RPwD Act, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-281404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-readers-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281404","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=281404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281410,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281404\/revisions\/281410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}