Nasscom plans to create 2,000 IT, BPO jobs for persons with disabilities
Nasscom Foundation, the social development arm of IT-BPO association Nasscom, is initiating a recruitment drive for people with disabilities. It aims to create over 2,000 IT-BPO jobs for people with disabilities in the next two years.
Though corporates in general are still largely insensitive to the employment needs of the disabled, some are now recognizing the benefits of a diversity policy and are onboarding people with disabilities.
It is estimated that India has 5.5 million disabled youth in the 12-24 years age group. But only a few corporates have taken initiatives to create workplaces that recruit and welcome people with disabilities.
Nasscom Foundation would be conducting job fairs for people with disabilities. The job fair held recently in Mumbai attracted over 100 people with disabilities and dozens of corporates. A few dozen people were hired by leading IT-BPO companies in Bangalore as well. Similar job fairs are planned for Delhi and Hyderabad.
They are expected to concentrate on six cities initially, and would repeat job fairs in these cities to make it convenient to the disabled talent before they expand to other cities.
The fairs are conducted in association with the Vocational Rehabilitation Centre of various state governments and Wadhwani Foundation.
Nasscom's HR Summit 2012 would address issues like ensuring an innovative, inclusive and diverse workforce, improvement in accessibility and assistive devices for people with disabilities at the workplace, understanding of the untapped segment of people with disabilities and preparing HR managers towards finding, training and retaining people with disabilities.
