Visually Impaired Boy From Haryana Finally gets into IAS

Ajit Kumar (32) from Mahendragarh (Haryana) this week became only the second “100 per cent visually impaired” person to be accepted into the IAS.

Four years after Kumar was declared successful by the UPSC, the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT) finally relented this week and Kumar received the formal communication, asking him to report on February 20 for induction into the elite All India service.

He had secured an impressive 208 rank among the 791 candidates who qualified in the Civil Services examination held by the UPSC in 2008. But while the rank was good enough for induction into the IAS, the DoPT offered to absorb him in the Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS).

Stung, Kumar filed a case against discrimination at the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), which ruled in his favour in 2010 and directed DoPT to comply within eight weeks. But more than eight months went by and yet nothing moved.

Despite the order of CAT, and although the SC had ruled in 2010 itself in favour of the first completely visually impaired person to be inducted into the IAS, Ravi Prakash, the DoPT remained unmoved.

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Courtesy: tribuneindia.com