Eastern Railway
17, N.S.Road
Fairlie Place
Kolkata – 700 001
Date of issue : 04.07. 2012 Closing Date- & -Time: 06.08.2012 – 17:30 hrs.
Closing date for candidate belonging
to Andman, Nicobar & Lakashdweep
Island the last date will be 15 days
beyond the closing date i.e 21.08.12
at 17:30 hrs.
Employment Notice No.1/2012/PWD(ER)
Special Recruitment Drive for Persons with Disability Quota
----- In order to fill-up the quota for recruitment of the Persons with Disability in Eastern Railway, it has
been decided to conduct a special Recruitment Drive (SRD) for Persons with Disabilities by the Eastern
Railway, Personnel Department as per details in the table given below. Applications in the format in
employment notice hereunder are invited from the Persons with Disabilities only from amongst (i) Blind / Low
vision (ii) Hearing Handicapped (iii) Loco Motor Disabled or Cerebral Palsy. Nature or degree of disability
eligible to apply is described below: - Persons suffering from not less than 40% of the disability shall alone
be eligible for the benefit of reservation.
( I )Visually Handicapped (VH)
A) Blindness: (i) Total absence of sight
OR
(ii) Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye
with correcting lenses.
OR
(ii) Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle 20 degree or
worse.
B) Low vision: Impairment of visual functioning even after treatment or
standard refractive correction, but who uses or is potentially capable of
using vision for the planning or execution of a task with appropriate
assistive devices.
( II ) Hearing Handicapped (HH)
A) Hearing impairment: Loss of 60 decibel or more in the better ear in the conversational range of
frequencies.
B) The Deaf: The deaf are those in whom the sense of hearing is non-functional for ordinary
purpose of life. They do not hear, understand sounds at all events with amplified speech. The
cases included in the category will be those having hearing loss of more than 60 decibels in the
better ear (profound impairment) or total loss of hearing in both ears.
( III ) Orthopaedically Handicapped (OH)
A) Locomotor disability : Locomotor Disability means disability of bones, joints or muscles leading
to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy.
B) Cerebral Palsy : Cerebral Palsy means abnormal motor control posture resulting from brain
insult or injuries occurring in the prenatal, post-natal or infant period of development.
C) All the cases of orthopedically handicapped persons would be covered under the category of
“Locomotor disability or Cerebral Palsy.
D) It shall also be indicated that persons suffering from not less than 40% of the relevant disability
shall alone be eligible.
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