The Supreme Court has sought the Centre's response on a plea seeking initiation of contempt proceedings for not complying with an earlier order of three per cent quota in jobs to persons with disabilities. The bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi and R F Nariman issued a show-cause notice to the Secretary of the Department of Personal and Training (DoPT).

The bench was hearing the plea filed by an NGO for the blind. The NGO said, DoPT had issued an office memorandum for providing three per cent reservation to persons with disabilities. The plea said this amendment in the office memorandum was not in accordance with the direction of the court. It said the DoPT also did not take steps for filling up vacancies to be calculated against the reservation for persons with disabilities, adopting the manner of computation in terms of court's directions within a period of three months.

Last October, the court in an order had provided separate one per cent reservation for each of the three categories of persons with disabilities. These are persons suffering from blindness and low vision, persons suffering from hearing disability and those suffering from locomotors disability or cerebral palsy.