SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 19 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 1 of 100

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 10 September 2026.

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In which of the following years was the Right of Persons with Disabilities Act passed?

(a)2010
(b)2002
(c)2016
(d)2019

Answer

Why

Correct — C. The statute the paper calls the "Right of Persons with Disabilities Act" is the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

Parliament passed it in December 2016 and it received presidential assent on 27 December 2016. It was brought into force on 19 April 2017.

It repealed and replaced the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
2010 — 2010 is the year the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act came into force. It is a rights statute of the same era, but it is about schooling, not disability.
(b)
2002 — No disability legislation belongs to 2002. The law in force before 2016 was the 1995 Act, and the National Trust Act for autism and cerebral palsy dates from 1999.
(d)
2019 — 2019 carries the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act. It is a rights law of that year, which is what makes it an attractive wrong answer here.

Concept

The 2016 Act is India's domestic answer to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which India ratified in 2007. A convention binds the country; it does not by itself change Indian law, so a statute has to follow.

The 2016 Act widened the recognised conditions from 7 under the 1995 Act to 21, and raised reservation in government jobs for persons with benchmark disabilities from 3% to 4%.

It also shifted the framing from welfare to rights: the duty is on the State and on establishments to remove barriers, not on the individual to prove deservingness.

The stem asks for the year of passage. None of the four options is 2017, so the passed-against-commenced pair does not decide this item — but hold both dates anyway, because a year question can be about either.

The live near-miss on this list is 2019.

Key facts

The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 received presidential assent on 27 December 2016.
It came into force on 19 April 2017.
It recognises 21 disabilities, against 7 in the 1995 Act it replaced.
Reservation in government jobs for persons with benchmark disabilities rose from 3% to 4% under this Act.
India ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007.

Study next

What the 1995 disability Act contained and what the 2016 Act changedThe National Trust Act, 1999 and the bodies it createdIndia's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Common traps

Reaching for 2019 because it also carries a rights statute, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act.
Reading the question's singular "Right" as the title of some other statute.

SSC sets social legislation by year and by the one clause that changed, exactly as it does with the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 on 9 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.8.

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