Medical Exams To Gujarat IAS Officers Who Got Jobs Under Disability Quota
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has instructed all officers of the All India Services (AIS) of the Gujarat cadre who provided disability certificates for jobs to get a medical reexamination done, sources told Times of India. This move came in the wake of recent controversy by Maharashtra cadre IAS officer Puja Khedkar, whose provisional candidature was cancelled after being charged with providing fake disability certificates.
As per the reports, at least four IAS officers of Gujarat will have to get their disability certificates re-checked.
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“All IAS, IPS and IFS officers in the state who have submitted disability certificates will be required to get a re-examination done at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad. They will be required to send reports of the re-examination of their ‘disability’ to UPSC,” top government sources told TOI.
Four IAS officers in Gujarat had come under the scrutiny after the state government’s General Administration Department (GAD) found that their disability certificates needed careful examination.
“On the basis of the preliminary examination, we have shortlisted four IAS officers which merit a closer scrutiny,” sources told TOI.
However, there is no exact information, as of now, on how many officers posted in Gujarat have entered into the services by providing disability certificates.
The disability certificates of four IAS officers are being checked and it includes a senior officer and three junior-level officers. The senior officer cited ‘visual impairment’ as a disability, and the three junior officers had referred ‘locomotive disability’ as their reasons. But, as per reports, three junior officers, do not encounter any difficulty in moving limbs.
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Following the Khedkar row, there is increasing demand in the state bureaucracy stressing GAD to monitor disability and caste certificates of all state government employees.
Sources also add that if any document submitted by the officers is found to be fake, the Gujarat government will hand over the findings of the report to the UPSC which allotted cadres to officers to decide future course of action.
