IAS officer Pooja Khedkar given 2 disability certificates in 2018 and 2021, says IRS; Held for extra in Pune in 2022. Pune information

Pune: Probationary IAS officer Pooja Khedkar Application for disability certificate for locomotor disability was made simultaneously in August 2022 District Civil HospitalAundh, and Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial SanatoriumNisha Nambiar and Swati Shinde Gole, each in Pimpri, Pune.
She did this despite obtaining disability certificates for low vision in 2018 and psychological depression and coffee vision in 2021 from the Ahmednagar District Health Centre. The District Civil Hospital in Aundh had negatived her application due to “double submission”. Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Sanatorium (YCMH), Pimpri provided 7% locomotor disability certificate due to torn ACL tear.
As of 2022, she was an Indian Income Tax (IRS) officer, posted as Executive Director Sports Authority of India (SAI) from 2021. He has been selected for IRS under OBC section and PWBD (Low Visual). However, when Khedkar wrote the UPSC exam again at that age, he was selected for IAS under OBC and PwBD (MD), which means multiple disability/category. It seems that three other disability certificates helped him get IAS grade under MD quota, but still get OBC quota with non-creamy layer certificates.
Dr Nagnath Yempalle, civil surgeon, District Civil Sanatorium, Aundh, told TOI on Monday, “Khedkar obtained a 7% disability certificate for locomotor disability from YCMH on August 24, 2022. On October 11, 2022, we rejected her August 23, 2022 application on the grounds that the Unique Disability ID (UDID) website showed the presence of two concurrent applications. He had applied for the certificate twice. “As a result, we rejected his application.”
In 2019, in her Civil Services preliminary examination, the IAS trainee had registered herself as Khedkar Pooja Diliprao, and her appointment at SAI was also in the same name as Benchmark Persons with Disabilities (PwBD) (LV) – OBC. However, in her 2022 service allotment by the Central Public Service Commission (UPSC), where she was selected for IAS, she went by the name of Pooja Manorama Dilip Khedkar under PWBD-Multiple Disability. (MD) Section. In the series dated February 23, 2023 of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Mumbai Bench, she was named as Pooja Manorama Dilip Khedkar as the applicant.
TOI repeatedly sent text messages to Khedkar on Monday shouting at him to search for his model on the field. He did not give any reply till the time of writing the news. Dr Rajendra Wable, dean of the postgraduate institute at YCMH, Pimpri, told TOI that he has qualified Pooja Khedkar as having 7% locomotor disability. “We believe that her online application at Aundh hospital was automatically canceled as the certificate was already prepared at YCMH,” he said.
The YCMH disability certificate states, “The diagnosis in her case is a chronic ACL tear with left knee instability. As per guidelines she has 7% permanent disability with respect to left lower limb.
In Pune, 9 centres, including Sassoon Basic Sanatorium, District Civil Sanatorium, Aundh, YCMH, Pimpri and Kamla Nehru Sanatorium, have been designated for behavioral testing to certify a person’s condition, after which a disability certificate is prepared. Is.
Meanwhile, Ahmednagar District Civil Surgeon Dr Sanjay Ghogre on Monday submitted a report to the Ahmednagar Collector, giving details of the two certificates issued so far in 2018 and 2021. Reports revealed that Khedkar was diagnosed with 40% visual impairment; And in 2021, he was awarded the certificate for depression and coffee scene with auto-generated disability assessed at 51% by the Civil Health Centre, Ahmednagar. He discussed that the Collector will submit the report to the Divisional Commissioner and Size Commissioner.
The file said, “On April 25, 2018, Pooja Khedkar was examined by an ophthalmologist for vision problem and she was found to be suffering from BE high myopia with myopic degeneration with 40% permanent disability. Accordingly, he was issued a SADM (Software for Assessment of Disability) Disability Certificate on April 25, 2018. These details are available at Civil Hospital, Ahmednagar.
“He was examined for mental illness by psychiatrists on January 18, 2021,” the file said. As assessed by the Indian Disability and Assessment Assessment Scale, she was found to be suffering from depression.
According to the UDID, a certificate was issued to her on January 18, 2021, indicating low visibility in both eyes (40% disability) and psychological illness, mental depression (20% disability), the file said , and the automatically generated disability was 51%. Khedkar had submitted clinical status certificate along with Nomadic Tribe-3 certificate under OBC category for admission to his MBBS level course at Smt. Kashibai Navale Clinical School in 2007.
(With inputs from Geetesh Shelke)