Welfare of Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), Women and other Weaker Sections

The Ministry of Mines, its attached office, subordinate office and the Public Sector Undertakings under its administrative control, have always strived to fulfill Government’s commitment for upliftment of weaker sections of society. 

PSUs under the Ministry identify and implement a number of programmes in the peripheral areas of their units/ locations. These include community education programmes, facilitating availability of drinking water, repair and development of approach roads of surrounding areas, arranging health awareness programmes, and medical camps in rural areas for upliftment of the community in and around their townships as part of their social responsibility.

For the welfare of persons with disabilities in the Ministry, due attention was given to Section 33 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation), Act, 1995, which provides that every appropriate Government shall appoint in every establishment such percentage of vacancies not less than three per cent for persons or class of persons with disability, of which one per cent each shall be reserved for persons suffering from (i) blindness or low vision; (ii) hearing impairment; and (iii) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy; in the posts identified for each disability

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