Reservation policy of the Government of India is applicable to UGC-NET. According to this, in the Central Universities and Institutions which are deemed to be Universities, 10% of the seats are
reserved for the category General-Economically Weaker Section (GEN-EWS), 15% of the seats are
reserved for the category Scheduled Caste(SC), 7.5% for the category Scheduled Tribe(ST) and
27% for the category Other Backward Classes belonging to the Non Creamy layer”(OBC-NCL).
Each category will have 4 (four)% reservations horizontally for Persons with Disabilities(PwD)
as defined in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPwD Act,2016) (source-Press
Release by UGC).
Section 2(r) of the RPwD Act, 2016 states the following:
Persons with benchmark disabilities (PwD) means a person with not less than forty percent (40%)
of a specified disability where specified disability has not been defined in measurable terms and
includes a person with disability where specified disability has been defined in measurable terms,
as certified by the certifying authority.
“Specified Disability” means the disabilities as specified in the Schedule of the RPwD Act 2016.The
categories of disabilities are:
(i) Blindness and low vision
(ii) Deaf and hard of hearing
(iii) Locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims
and muscular dystrophy
(iv) Autism, intellectual disability, specified learning disability and mental illness, and
(v) Multiple disabilities from amongst persons under clauses (i) to (iv)
(vi) Other ‘specified disabilities’ mentioned in the Schedule of the RPwD Act 2016.
Please refer to Office Memorandum issued by Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment dated
29 August 2018 (F.No.34-02/2015-DD-III), guideline IV, second paragraph.
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