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Govt hosts roundtable with corporates; comprehensive support for Persons with Disabilities on agenda

Published: Sep 22, 2023

By TIOLCorplaws News Service

NEW DELHI, SEP 22, 2023: THE Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), in collaboration with the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India, organized a Roundtable Meet for Corporate to 'Support, Activate and Build Assured Livelihoods (SABAL) for Persons with Disabilities under CSR Actions'.

Rajesh Aggarwal, IAS Secretary - DEPwD, Dr. Sunil Shukla, Director General, EDII, Dr. Raman Gujral, Director, Department of Projects (Corporate) at EDII, senior officials from DEPwD as well as National Institutions under DEPwD and CSR leaders from leading corporate entities including PNB, XIAOMI, NHPC, Delhi Metro, BHEL etc attended this ground breaking Meet. The ‘Meet' took up the agenda of sensitizing society at large and instituting interventions and measures that ensure establishment of 3000 new enterprises by Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), including 1500 technology driven and 1500 general enterprises.

This pivotal Roundtable Meet brainstormed on creating a better world for PwDs through an effective synergy between Government, Corporate and Institutions. The discussions revolved around the specific objectives of ensuring empowerment of PwDs through sustainable enterprise creation; creating a set of best practices in the context of infrastructure, perception, environment, security and other facilities to promote their complete inclusion in society; floating ways to ensure an integrative working environment; deciding on an inventory of business opportunities that PwDs could tap into to create own enterprises; aligning the project and its interventions with sustainable development goals and breaking the professional segregation in society that relegates disabled to lower paying jobs.

Based on the tangible discussions and takeaways, the participating Corporate identified some primary areas of cooperation. Some of the activities identified to achieve the goal of creating 3000 PwD led enterprises included: Awareness Campaign to Ensure Community Integration of PwDs; Immersive Life Skills for Adolescents with Disabilities; Sourcing Business Opportunities for PwDs; Sensitization workshops for PwDs; Credit Linkage Support; Entrepreneur Growth-cum-Counselling Programme (EGCP) to Support PwD-led Enterprises and Micro Skill preneurship Development Programme (MSDP) to enable unemployed PwDs to set up their business

Secretary, DEPwD Rajesh Aggarwal started his speech with the message that India has reached the moon but there are many challenges that persons with disabilities are facing today. In India, our attitudes are inclusive but infrastructures are yet to be inclusive. He opened up the conversation for supporting Divyangjan through various initiatives including donations through CSRs in providing aids and assistive devices, up skilling, providing loans and mentorship to PwDs, mapping of jobs following the 'cool ability factor', providing reasonable accommodation, providing leaves for health issues and spreading the message across distribution networks of the companies and hiring PwDs. He also stressed upon the attitudinal changes of the society at large towards Divyangjan.

Kishor B. Surwade,Deputy Director General  DEPwD spoke about various initiatives and schemes of the Department including National Action Plan for Skill Development of Pwds, Assistive devices, Scholarship to Divyangjan and rehabilitation services.

A video was screened explaining the features of newly launched DEPwD PM Daksh portal for skilling and employment of Divyangjan.

Dr. Sunil Shukla, expressed, "It is high time that we, as a society, think about inclusive development wherein empowering PwDs must be high on our priority. On a regular basis, we need to curate sustainable business opportunities, viable entrepreneurial prospects and ensure that the PwDs get suitably trained and handheld. It is also important to establish best practices at workplaces and at various levels of the social framework to foster equality and inclusivity at all levels.

Dr. Raman Gujral, discussing the various projects undertaken by corporate to empower PwDs, said that EDII has so far 8,533 PwDs through 266 skill training programs, leading to the establishment of 1,247 enterprises. EDII houses the Centre for Empowerment of the Differently Abled (CEDA), supported by the Department of Social Justice & Empowerment, Directorate of Social Defense, Gujarat State Handicapped (Divyang) Finance & Development Corporation, Government of Gujarat, on its campus.

A brainstorming session was held between the officials and corporate leaders present in the conference room. The one hour long round table discussion included topics related to accessibility, aids and assistive devices, AI for PwDs, Job mapping, entrepreneurship opportunities and disability sensitization.

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