Karnataka Rights of Persons with Disabilities bill 2025
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- The State government has released a draft of the Karnataka Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Employment and Education Bill, 2025, proposing 5% reservation for persons with disabilities in all private establishments with 20 or more employees.
- The draft also mandates that educational institutions earmark 10% of seats in every course for students with disabilities, one of the most expansive attempts to overhaul inclusion in employment and in higher education.
- The draft sets out a phased introduction of the 5% job quota across the private sector.
- Companies must distribute these posts across disability categories based on a formula prescribed by the proposed State regulatory authority, file annual compliance reports, and can carry forward unfilled posts for up to three recruitment cycles.
- Exemptions will be granted only when essential job functions cannot be performed even with reasonable accommodation.
- For education, the Bill makes 10% reservation course-specific, not institution-level, preventing colleges from averaging seats across programmes.
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