- A job portal exclusively for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) has been launched to assist differently-abled person in getting a job.
- Through the National Job Portal, PwDs will be able to avail the different facilities such as
- self employment loan,
- education loan,
- skill training,
- link to scholarships and information about jobs in a single window platform.
- “Government has given very high priority to skill training programme for persons with disabilities and has a target for skilling five lakh persons in next three years.
- The skill training will be provided by a network of 200 clusters of ‘Training Partners’ with financial assistance from government.
- A time-bound action plan has been prepared for this purpose, the government will also pursue private sector for providing them job after the training
- He said assistance for education and medical treatment has been given a big thrust by government
- Recently, a scheme has been launched to plant an especial device for assistance to deaf and dumb children.
- So far, within one and half months, 305 children have been provided this device.
- The Minister also said that government is also working on universal ID programme for persons with disabilities so that they can get facilities across the country on the production of the ID.
- The job portal Index, will go a long way to empower persons with disabilities by providing them all desired information for employment opportunities at one platform, Gehlot said.
- He asked the industry to support government initiatives and especially look at providing assistive devices and medical assistance for PwDs.
India and Japan today signed the civil nuclear agreement during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Tokyo. A landmark deal for a cleaner, greener world! PM @narendramodi and PM @AbeShinzo witness exchange of the landmark Civil Nuclear Agreement The deal would allow Japan to export nuclear technology to India, making it the first non-NPT signatory to have such a deal with Tokyo Japan is a major player in the nuclear energy market and an atomic deal with it will make it easier for US-based nuclear plant makers Westinghouse Electric Corporation and GE Energy Inc to set up atomic plants in India Other nations who have signed civil nuclear deal with India include the US, Russia, South Korea, Mangolia, France, Namibia, Argentina, Canada, Kazakhstan and Australia. Source:- India becomes first non-NPT signatory to ink landmark civil nuclear deal with Japan
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