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Job portal for disabled

Staff Reporter

Bangalore: Finally, a job portal for persons with disabilities. The Department of Welfare of Disabled and Senior Citizens in collaboration with Partners in Change (PiC), a non-governmental organisation, has developed a website that will enable persons with disabilities to look for employment opportunities in various sectors.

Speaking to presspersons here on Saturday, M.V. Vedamurthy, Director, said: “Around 36,000 persons with disabilities have enrolled themselves with the employment exchange and the department is collecting their details and will put this up on the website. Companies willing to recruit disabled persons can visit the website and get information on eligible candidates.”

The website, www.karnatakapwdjobs.com will allow persons with disabilities to hunt for jobs anywhere in India and provides for companies to post their jobs free of charge.

Mr. Vedamurthy said the department was implementing the rural rehabilitation scheme that would provide jobs to 5,828 persons as well as enable persons with disabilities to avail themselves of all the schemes and benefits they were entitled to from the different departments at their doorstep through the rural rehabilitation workers at the gram panchayat level. The government had sanctioned Rs. 5.92 crore for this programme, he added.

Manasa Kendras, short stay homes for mentally ill persons, would also be set up in Bangalore, Belgaum, Shimoga, Bellary and Koppal. “They can stay there for a few months while they are recuperating from their illness,” he said.

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