Half of the population of disabled in India that can be used: Report

New Delhi: The right policy and strategic shifts can increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities with about half of them in India that have the potential to be used, according to the Uneatsinighigi market intelligence company.
According to a report released by Uneathinighsight, India has nearly 3 crores, the population of people with disabilities (PWD) in which around 1.3 crores can be employed but only 34 lakh of those who have been employed in all sectors held and self-employed.
“This country has potential worker bandwidth of 3.4 lakh non-technology graduates, polytechnic and diploma holders that can be skilled and brought to the mainstream service sector and the knowledge industry to encourage per capita income,” the report said.
About 17,000 PWD students pass in the field of engineering or computer science and alignment, where the IT service sector employs around 8,000 PWD employees while software products have around 5,500 and alternative technology talents.
“Technology and Retail lead in skills and creates job opportunities for a collection of PWD talents.
Organized retail sector employs more than 13,000 PWD professionals while more than 8,000 PWD professionals are employed by the technology sector,” the report said.
In the technology sector, TCS and Accenture are employers who are greater than PWD talents in the Indian IT service sector while SAP and Microsoft lead high-tech pwd talenta in the software product industry in India.
The banking and financial services sector is an employer who emerges for PWD talent where SBI is the biggest PWD employer in back-office work and the front office, he added.
UNATHINIGHSIGHT Founder and CEO of Gaurav Vasu said that the contemporary business strategy for the expansion of a collection of talent focused on realizing the ideals of diversity and inclusion at work.
“There is a long way to go, because India sits in a large PWD talent pool that can play an important role.
With the right strategy policy and change, there is a real chance that we work to increase the level of work between the PWD population” Vasu said.