No establishment shall directly or indirectly discriminate against any person with disability in any matter relating to employment including but not limited to recruitment, promotion and other related issues arising in the course of or through the length of employment in any establishment 27
Her eyes are set on a goal ‘ making visually impaired self-reliant. On her noble journey, Jyoti Parmar, 45, has taught 30 such persons how to write their name. Besides, she has been teaching English and social studies since 18 years at Braille Bhawan, Jamalpur. And while treading this path, she has not let her handicap be a barrier ‘ she had lost her vision when she was eight.
Accessibility is a human right issue and requires deep understanding and strong specific action. Every human being including persons with disabilities and reduced mobility have right to equal access to sites, services and facilities including information and communication.
The National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO) invites applications for the following posts to be filled from amongst Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes/ OBC and Persons with Disabilities
A young entrepreneur who prefers action to words, Pavithra Y.S. (27) is the managing director of Vindhya E-Infomedia Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore — a business process outsourcing company offering IT and IT-enabled services — which gives employment preference to differently-abled people (orthopaedically challen-ged, hearing impaired and dyslexics). A commerce graduate of the garden city’s KLE College, since promoting Vindhya E-Infomedia in 2006 with a workforce of five differently-abled people, Pavithra has grown the company’s workforce to 200.
Recruitment of persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a sound business decision. Strange as it might sound, this was the consensus at a seminar at a top management school in the city on Friday.
The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability. People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities.
Differently abled or disability is defined as limitation of a person’s ability to carry out the activities of daily living, to the extent that he or she may need help in doing so. The American Disabilities Act of 1990 defines disability, as ‘physical or a mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of life abilities’.
Job fests for the differently abled are all the rage amongst corporations out to act on their corporate social responsibility mandates. Few applicants benefit from these drives, and many others find themselves short sold. Jobs offered to them at these events that are commensurate with their educational qualifications.
The Regional Employment Officer Special Employment Exchange for differently abled persons