- 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.
Chandrakant Raghunath Patil, MP from Navsari, adopted Chikhli. Chikhli seen improvement in Sanitation and road renovation under SAGY. The infrastructure is improved.It is emerging as the template of village development. Patil completed the task in just three months. 380 toilets were built in Chikhli, many of them in the two slums life has become better after construction of toilet in their houses regular affair during the monsoons. A huge Shiva statue built six years ago by an NRI on the river bank had lost its colour and texture. The MP built a protection wall all along the riverbank and renovated a temple and the Shiva idol. renovation of road circles in a public-private partnership putting waste collection bins around the village, procurement of a diagnosis machine for the Rotary Eye Hospital (in the nearby Navsari), a library in the village panchayat office, gas-based cremation at the village crematorium, a modern aganwadi centre and a bus stop.
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