Sampy, Ravindra, Manoj, Vishal and 16 other professionals need a special pat on their backs as they set a benchmark despite being a bit different from others and will lend their services to one of the biggest telecom firm of the country soon. Beating all odds these “intellectually disabled” adults have proven their mettle and have given several reasons to rejoice to both their parents and mentors shattering all social taboos.
It’s hard to imagine an “intellectually disabled” person using computer and entering data without any support or technical assistance. However, this is a reality now, 20 “intellectually disabled” adults will start their professional journey soon. After undergoing a rigorous training successfully for two years, all of them will work as computer data operators for a renowned corporate brand.
Boosting the temperament of these talented “intellectually disabled” pupils, Deepshikha, Institute for Child Development and Mental Health in collaboration with AMBA Centers for Economic Empowerment of Intellectually Challenged, popularly known as AMBA CEEICS took the responsibility to engage these people with special need in a productive training programme in order to link them to the mainstream.
“With the purpose to make them financially independent the step has been taken. There were several constrains, from getting network connection to making them understand the basics, it was tedious but we successfully managed it. IQ level of these candidates is below 65. Interestingly, one candidate can feed 40-50 data on computer at a time. Earlier, few of them were even not familiar with the alphabets and numbers but now all are well verse with computer operations. All of them will carry on their work from the institute itself,” said Director, Deepshikha Institute for Child Development and Mental Health, Alka Nizamie.
This is first of its kind professional training programme designed for intellectually differently abled adults. “Deepshikha is the first Institute in the State to initiate this specific programme for people with special need. The programme is designed by AMBA and ensures cent percent accuracy while the data is being entered by them. The first batch has been made industry ready,” added Nizamie.
The training programme is recognized by United Nation as well. The data will be provided to AMBA by the concerned company and through outsourcing, the work will be completed here. All the trained differently abled personnel are above 16 years and will be paid per application data entry.
MS Bhatia, Principal Secretary, Social Welfare Department distributed merit certificates to all the successful 20 candidates on Tuesday in the presence of their guardians. Bhatia was inspired by the institute efforts and appreciated the attempt of all “intellectually disabled” people for achieving this goal. He has ensured all assistance to the institute guiding people with special need in all major endeavors.