Social Justice and Empowerment minister, Thaawarchand Gehlot has launched an exclusive job portal for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs). The PwDs can 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 through this National Job Portal. The minister has said the 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 3 years. The skill training will be provided by a network of 200 clusters of “Training Partners’ with financial assistance of 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 month 305 children have been provided this device. Encouraging results have been seen and many of these children are now able to speak and hear like normal children.

Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India has entrusted National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation (NHFDC) to develop a National level Job portal for the persons with disabilities (PwDs). A disabled-friendly National level Job portal, www.disabilityjobs.gov.in, will a long way for empowering persons with disabilities by providing them all desired information for employment opportunities at one platform.