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More than 100 physically challenged men and women attended “Physically challenged people still unaware of avenues to right jobs” TAMBARAM: They are the young, bright minds from a prestigious institution, who will be travelling places once they complete their engineering course. The students of the technical institution that nurtured former President A.P.J.Abdul Kalam came together under an initiative to reach out to the underprivileged. Student members of the Rotaract Club of Madras Institute of Technology, Chromepet, conducted ‘Dimensions 08,’ a daylong job fair for the differently abled at the college on Saturday. More than 100 physically challenged men and women attended the interviews conducted by human resource personnel of Healthsoft India, Spencers’ Retail, LCS Chennai, Padma Vertical Solution and Fenner India. The requirements of these companies varied, and based on the skills and abilities, the differently abled would be given chances, representatives of the firms said. Bhoomadevi Rajan, Rehabilitation officer, Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped, which functions under the Ministry of Labour and Employment, said the physically challenged people were still unaware of the avenues to find the right jobs. Job fairs conducted by students—that too in a technical institution—was one of its kind, and such events could help to encourage the physically challenged people to exploit the chances for landing good jobs in the private sector, she said. G. Seetha, orthopaedically handicapped, waiting to be interviewed by one of the companies, said she was a teacher in a private school and trying to get a better job. More such job fairs, with the participation of more private companies, would boost the chances of those with disabilities, she said. D. Kanagasabapathy, Dean, MIT, said the college students had demonstrated their commitment to social causes by conducting the job fair. Student volunteers said they took turns to read out notes to the visually impaired students so that they could write them in Braille. The job openings for the disabled people in Saturday’s fair included customer service executives in retail showrooms and call centre companies, data entry operators in medical transcription and machine operators in engineering companies. Besides the five companies that took part in the fair, an equal number had agreed to receive resumes from people with disabilities.
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