The Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Handicapped (VRCH) of Union Ministry of labour & Employment would organise a Career Counselling & Job Fair for Persons with Disability (PWDs) on October 16 at 9.30 am at VRC, Gandamunda, Pokhariput here.
The programme is being organised with support of the Directorate for Welfare of PWDs, Government of Odisha, and the National Handicapped Finance Development Corporation (NHFDC), Government of India. The Sarthak Education Trust and V-shesh are assisting in bringing some potential employers.
VRCH Assistant Director Ram Kishor Sharma on Monday said that about 136 PWDs would be provided self-employment tool kits and assistive divisions sponsored by Nalco, DWPD and NHFDC.
Government institutes like ORMAS, KVIC, NHFDC, Odisha Rural livelihood Mission, RUDSETI, AlIMCO, State Institute of Disability Rehabilitation (SIDR) would participate in the programme.
Sharma also said representatives of private employer placement agencies like Fast Track Career, MAK-Talent Search and PNV Venture, Edu-Tech, Dr Reedy Foundation and Mission Employment would select PWDs for employment and self-employment-oriented training.
The Regional Institute of Education (RIE) would a put up a career exhibition and its trained counsellors would provide career counselling. The AlIMCO and international NGO sight savers would exhibit the assistive devices used by PWDs.