The Tamil Nadu government will provide 4% reservation in promotion to its employees with benchmark disabilities.
The reservation applies only to the identified posts notified by the government where the cadre strength of a post is more than five.
Such identification shall be made only for posts carrying a pay level up to pay level 25 in each government establishment.
The reservation is applicable in promotion as well as in recruitment by transfer (lower pay scale to higher pay scale).
While 1% is reserved for blindness and low vision, 1% is reserved for the deaf and hard of hearing.
1% is reserved for locomotor disability, including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims, and muscular dystrophy.
One of the instructions allows the government to exempt any of its establishments from the provisions of Section 34 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.