Posts suitable for persons in MTS cadre with new benchmark disabilities - DOP

Posts suitable for persons in MTS cadre with new benchmark disabilities (defined in Section 34 (1) of Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016)

Department of Posts letter No. 12-10/2017 –SCT dt 01.04.2019

Name of the Post (1)	Physical Requirement (2)	Categories suitable for jobs (3)	Nature of duties in brief (4)	Remarks /Recommendations of the Committee in the meeting held on 07.02.2019 (5)
MTS	S,ST, W, RW, SE ,C, H, BN, CL and L	Low Vision (LV), Hard of Hearing (HH), One Arm (OA), One leg (OL), One Arm and One Leg (OAOL), Cerebral Palsy, Leprosy cured , Dwarfism Acid attack Victim, Specific learning disability. Multiple disabilities from amongst disabilities mentioned above.	Messenger, Handling Dak weighing Dak, Dispatch etc.	As MTS performs multiple tasks in Post Offices and offices including lifting of weights etc., Blindness, Deaf, muscular dystrophy and autism, intellectual  disability and mental illness may not be found suitable for the post.

Abbreviations used: 

S –  Sitting , ST – Standing , W – Walking , RW – Reading  & Writing, SE - Seeing, C - Communication , H – Hearing, BN - Bending, and CL – Climbing and L - Lifting