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Section Section-2: Definitions

The Uttar Pradesh Public Services (Reservation for Physically Handicapped, Dependents of Freedom Fighters and Ex-Servicemen) Act, 1993State Act of Uttar Pradesh · Act 4 of 1993

[(a) blindness refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely :

i( i ) total a absence of sight; or

(ii) visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (sneilent) in the better eye with correcting lenses; or

(iii) limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse;br

(aa) cerebral palsy means a group of non-progressive conditions of a person characterised by abnormal motor control posture resulting from brain insult or injuries occurring in the pre-natal, pen-natal or infant period of development ; ]

(b) dependent with reference to a freedom fighter means,

(i) son and daughter (married or unmarried).

[(ii) grand son (son of a son or daughter) and grand daughter (daughter of a son or daughter) (married or unmarried).]

(c) ex-serviceman means a person who has served in any rank, as a combatant Or noncombatant, in the Indian Army, Navy or Airforce, and--

(i) has retired from such service after earning his pension, or

(ii) has been released from such service on medical grounds, in accordance with the requirements of such service, or because of circumstances beyond his control and has been granted medical or disability pension, or

(iii) has been released, otherwise than on his own request, as a consequence of reduction in the establishment of such service, or

(iv) has her n released from such service after a fixed specific period, but has not been released on his own request or has not been dismissed or discharged on account of misconduct or inefficiency and has been granted gratuity; and includes the following categories of territorial Army person' who

(i) get pension for continuous embodied service,

(ii) have become medically unfit owing to military service, and

(iii) are winners of 'gallantry award.

(d) freedom fighter means a person domiciled in Uttar. Pradesh who had participated in the freedom struggle of India and had

(i) laid down his life; or

(ii) undergone sentence of imprisonment for a period of at least two months; or

(iii) been detained in prison as an undertrial or a detained for a period of at least three months ; or

(iv) been sentenced with at least ten canes ;or

(v) been .declared as an absconder ; or

(vi) sustained bullet injuries ; or

(vii) participated in 'Peshawar Kand'; or

(viii) been a member of Indian National 'Army, or

(ix) been a certified member .of India Independence League ;or

(x) been released under the Gandhi Irwin Pact'.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Uttar Pradesh Public Services (Reservation for Physically Handicapped, Dependents of Freedom Fighters and Ex-Servicemen) Act, 1993
SectionSection-2
Marginal noteDefinitions
JurisdictionState of Uttar Pradesh
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted. Subs by sec 2(a) of U.P. Act No.-6 of 1997 (w.e.f 09-07-1997)
  • substituted. Subs by sec 2 of U.P. Act No.-6 of 2015 (w.e.f 07-04-2015)

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