The court docket slammed Delhi transport physique for appointing colourd blind colour-blind particular person as a driver.
New Delhi:
The Delhi Excessive Courtroom has requested town transport company to clarify the way it appointed a colour-blind particular person as a driver and allowed him to drive its buses for 3 years.
Justice Chandra Dhari Singh stated the matter was extraordinarily critical because it concerned public security and it was “very disheartening” to witness the “negligence” on the a part of the Delhi Transport Company (DTC).
Lamenting the “sorry state of affairs”, Justice Singh requested the DTC chairperson to file a private affidavit after due investigation and state the main points of the officer accountable for the recruitment made in 2008.
The court docket handed the order on a petition by the DTC in regards to the companies of the colour-blind driver who was terminated in January 2011 as a consequence of an accident.
Color-blind individuals are unable to distinguish between colors, particularly inexperienced and purple.
“The petitioner authority should have acted with due care and caution in ensuring that its driver is fit in all aspects to be appointed to the said position. Hence, this Court wants to now apprise itself of the fact as to why and under what circumstances, the petitioner department had appointed the respondent without considering the public safety since such actions may cause serious implications to the public safety,” the court docket stated in a latest order.
“It is a very appalling situation that the respondent was appointed as driver with the petitioner department as well as allowed to drive the buses of the petitioner department since his appointment in the year 2008 till 2011 i.e. for 3 years,” the court docket remarked.
On being requested as to how an individual affected by color blindness on the time of recruitment was appointed as a driver, the court docket was knowledgeable it was achieved on the idea of a medical certificates issued by Guru Nanak Hospital.
It was added that greater than 100 individuals affected by color blindness have been appointed, prompting structure of an impartial medical board in 2013.
The court docket stated the company’s resolution to depend on a medical certificates submitted by the candidate was a “wrongful action” and opposite to the medical check certificates issued by its personal medical division.
“The petitioner department has unfortunately not taken into account whether the respondent is medically fit for the position for which he was employed for and did not even take any action against the respondent and other 100 persons who were appointed on the basis of the report of the Guru Nanak Eye Centre,” the court docket stated.
“This Court observes that it is a sorry state of affairs that the petitioner woke up only in the year 2013 from its deep slumber and finally constituted an independent medical board on 13th April, 2013 for examination of the medical fitness of the respondent,” the court docket stated.
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