There is a gap between the mandated reservation percentage for disabled persons and the actual numbers

• Reports suggest that Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi may have been in violation of disability reservation provisions in student selection and faculty recruitment.
• In government jobs and higher educational institutions, where the total seats offered are fewer, disability reservation takes a back seat.
• The argument often given by authorities is that due to the paucity of seats, the disability reservation cannot even be calculated.
• Many premier educational institutions and various State governments have been in violation of the prior Persons with Disabilities Act of 1995 and of the RPwD Act, 2016.
• The system is designed such that disability is seen as the inability of a person and therefore many differently abled candidates are not recruited, additionally contributing to the mounting huge backlog of vacancies.

Source: The Hindu