Chennai (PTI): The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Tamil Nadu Government to keep three posts of Post Graduate Assistants (Commerce) vacant on a petition seeking a direction to the government to include visually impaired graduates/post graduates in Commerce for recruitment to teachers post in higher secondary schools.

The above direction was given by Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar while hearing the petition filed by three visually impaired candidates, who had done their Post-Graduation in Commerce with B Ed.

The petitioners contended that "number of visually impaired graduates and post-graduates with B Ed, M Ed and M Phil qualification in commerce, ecomonics, music and political science are waiting for employment opportunity for several years after registering their names in employment exchanges."

The petitioners submitted that "the College Students and Graduates Association of Blind, which reports the problem of the blind graduates and post-graduates to the government, had failed to enclose the list of blind candidates in other subjects for the teachers post. They maintained the list of candidates in Tamil and History alone."

"The commerce post-graduates with B Ed, M Ed and M Phil qualification are not provided with teachers post for the decades together," they added.