Three years after he cleared the Civil Services Exams, a visually impaired man Ravi Prakash Gupta is all set to join the Indian Administrative Services with the Supreme Court today directing the Centre to grant him posting within eight weeks.<br/><br/>A Bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and Cyriac Joseph also directed the Centre to pay a cost of 20,000 rupees to Gupta who had successfully argued his own case in the apex court. The apex court passed the direction in a judgement upholding the findings of the Delhi High Court that the government was under an obligation to fill up the seven posts lying vacant since 1996 reserved for persons with disabilities under the Disabilities Act.
News On AIR | July 7, 2010 7:56 PM
Visually impaired Ravi all set to join IAS