Hello Aspirant,

The PWD Act, 2016 was legislated to provide persons with disabilities various equal rights.

The Act has the following specified disabilities:-

Physical Disability

Locomotor Disability

Leprosy Cured Person

Cerebral Palsy

Dwarfism

Muscular Dystrophy

Acid Attack Victims

Visual Impairment

Blindness

Low Vission

Hearing Impairment

Deaf

Hard of Hearing

Speech and Language Disability

Intellectual Disability

Specific Learning Disabilities

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Mental Behaviour (Mental Illness)

Disability caused due to Chronic Neurological Conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease

Blood Disorder-Haemophilia, Thalassemia, Sickle Cell Disease

Multiple Disabilities

Chronic Neurological Conditions

For example -

Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia

Parkinson’s disease

Dystonia

ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease)

Huntington’s disease

Neuromuscular disease

Multiple sclerosis

Epilepsy

Stroke

So, epilepsy does come under this act after the 2016 amendment. There is a 5% reservation in seats in Government and Government benefited academic institutions for persons with benchmark disabilities. There is a 4% reservation in Government jobs for specific individuals or classes of individuals with benchmark disabilities.

Regards.