The Court issued these remarks while withholding its verdict on a petition filed by an entity called the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) challenging the advertisement and a concurrent suo motu public interest litigation on the matter. Upon learning that recruitments had occurred following the advertisement, the Court stated its intention to instruct KVS to address the backlog concerning individuals with disabilities.
“We will direct them to issue a fresh advertisement in respect of backlog vacancies…,” it said.
The legal counsel representing the KVS conveyed that a committee established by the organisation had advised against providing teaching positions to a specific category of individuals with disabilities. Nevertheless, the Court asserted that since the Centre had not granted KVS an exemption from adhering to the disability quota, they were not permitted to deviate from it.