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V. KAMESWAR RAO, ANOOP KUMAR MENDIRATTA
Raju Ranjan – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
JUDGMENT
V. Kameswar Rao, J. (Oral)--The present petition has been filed by the petitioner challenging two orders, which are dated March 13, 2019 and May 2, 2019, passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal Principal Bench, New Delhi (`Tribunal', for short) in Original Application No.1821/2015 (`OA', for short) whereby the OA and Review Application (`RA', for short) filed by the petitioner herein were dismissed.
2. The case of the petitioner before the Tribunal was that in June 2009, Employees Provident Fund Organisation (`EPFO', for short)/the respondent No.2 had issued an advertisement for recruiting Social Security Assistant (`SSA', for short). He applied for the same and he qualified in the written test (on September 06, 2009), so as to enable him to appear in the skill test. The skill test, as specified, is typewriting test with a speed of minimum 5000 Key Depressions Per Hour (`KDPH', for short). The petitioner being a Person with Disability (`PwD', for short) had on January 19, 2010 applied for exemption from appearing in the skill test on account of his disability of 40% with regard to one arm. However, the exemption was denied and the petitioner was called to appear in t
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