The office of commissioner for persons with disabilities (PwDs) has directed the states department to consider nominating specially-abled persons as members in the panchayati raj bodies on a similar pattern asChhattisgarh.
The disability court made these remarks after the panchayati raj department gave a reply to it that there is no provision in the panchayati raj act to nominate specially-abled persons as members
In Rajasthan, the State Government had already nominated specially-abled persons in the Urban Local Bodies, but it is yet to take a decision on panchayati raj institutions. The state government had amended the Rajasthan Municipal Act last year to introduce this provision of nominating PwDs to the ULBs as members, making it the first in the country.
After amendments in the Rajasthan Municipal Act, now it has become mandatory to keep one post vacant for PwDs in an urban local body.