Screening Paper I · 2 Constitution, Polity, Social Justice & International Relations · APPSC Group 1
2.6.3 Disability and vulnerable groups notes
4 notes, in reading order.
- 2.6.3.1Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016: specified disabilities, benchmark disability and reservation
The RPwD Act 2016 replaced the 1995 law, widened the list of disabilities from 7 to 21, and moved India from a charity approach to a rights approach, with 4% job reservation for persons with benchmark disabilities.
Advanced · 9 min · Full course - 2.6.3.2Disability institutions and schemes: UNCRPD, Sugamya Bharat, UDID, National Trust and Mental Healthcare Act 2017
Around the RPwD Act stand an international treaty (UNCRPD), special laws (National Trust Act, RCI Act, Mental Healthcare Act) and schemes of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities such as Sugamya Bharat, UDID and ADIP.
Advanced · 9 min · Full course - 2.6.3.3Transgender persons: the NALSA judgment, the 2019 Act and SMILE
The Supreme Court recognised transgender persons as a "third gender" with a right to self-identify in NALSA (2014); Parliament followed with the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act 2019, and the SMILE scheme funds shelters and livelihoods.
Advanced · 9 min · Full course - 2.6.3.4Denotified and nomadic tribes, manual scavengers, bonded labour, trafficking and beggary laws
Some groups are vulnerable because law or custom marked them out (denotified tribes, manual scavengers, bonded labourers, trafficked persons, beggars), and each has a specific law and remedy.
Advanced · 10 min · Full course
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