The Supreme Court today stayed the Delhi High Court order directing the Centre to provide three per cent job reservation for persons with disabilities mandated under a special legislation which includes one per cent for visually-impaired candidates. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and Deepak Verma clarified it was not staying the Disabilities Act under which three per cent jobs should be reserved for disabled persons, including one per cent for visually-impaired candidates. It also said the interim directions passed by it earlier would prevail. The apex court had directed the Centre to file a detailed status report regarding the extent to which the posts had been identified and filled up and also what steps had been taken to fill up the vacancies that had arisen since the Act has gone into force in 1996. The Bench refused the plea of National Federation of the Blind that the High Court order be allowed to operate.<br/>