Union Labour and Employment Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor (AS and FA) Sibani Swain visited the National Career Service Centre for Differently-Abled (NCSCDA) here on Saturday.
She distributed self-employment toolkits and laptop to 20 trained Persons with Disabilities (PwDs).
The toolkits included eight sewing machines sponsored by the Paradip Port Trust, 10 beauty parlour kits given by the Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC), a vending cart and a laptop with JAWS software provided by the SSEPD Department.
The Union Social Security and Empowerment of PwDs (SSEPD) Department and the Odisha Skill Development Authority (OSDA) are jointly imparting free residential training, for two to six months in 11 skill trades, to about 1,000 unemployed PwDs at the NCSCDA.
Sibani said that in order to set up 107 Model Career Centres, Rs 5,00,00,000 has been given as financial assistance to the State Government’s Employment Exchangesby the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment during 2017-18.
This year, about 100 Model Career Centre would be granted and some of them would be set up in Odisha, she added.
Among others, SSEPD Under Secretary Ambika Prasad Patnaik, Regional Labour Commissioner Dr Tapas Kumar Panda, Assistant Welfare Commissioner SK Mohanty, NCSCDA Assistant Director Ram Kishor Sharma and NCSCDA MCC young professional J Padmanav Rao were present.