{"id":92173,"date":"2021-06-28T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=92173"},"modified":"2021-06-28T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T17:57:11","slug":"blind-athletes-protest-for-getting-quota-based-government-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=92173","title":{"rendered":"Blind athletes protest for getting quota-based government jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Athletes-main-1.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>KARACHI: Blind athletes held a protest here outside Press Club against Sindh Government while demanding government jobs as per a five percent quota for disabled persons.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blind cricketers Abdul Malik, Muhammad Shuja, and Sher Ali Chachar, blind cyclist Muhammad Aqeel, Olympic participants in Javelin Throw Sajid Afridi, and Qurban Ali were among the protestors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Athletes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-228565\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Athletes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The athletes said they are jobless despite vacant space up to 8,000 seats in government departments as per the job quota for disabled persons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are finding it too hard to meet ends without a job. There are vacancies in job quota for disabled persons but we can&#8217;t find any way to get it. I appeal to the Sindh government to provide us jobs and help us run our homes,&#8221; blind cricketer Abdul Malik said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-228566\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/20th-national-netball-championship-kicks-off-in-islamabad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20th National Netball Championship kicks off in Islamabad<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>KARACHI: Blind athletes held a protest here outside Press Club against Sindh Government while demanding government jobs as per a five percent quota for disabled <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=92173\" title=\"Blind athletes protest for getting quota-based government jobs\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92175,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92173\/revisions\/92175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}