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Job avenues for differently-abled persons
Chennai-based, Shashaank Awasthi and P Rajasekharan started V-Shesh, impact enterprise in 2008 to provide job access to three different types of people; with the disability, living in non-metro areas and people from difficult socio-economic backgrounds, by teaching them English language and various other skills to get a job.
Chennai-based, Shashaank Awasthi and P Rajasekharan started V-Shesh, impact enterprise in 2008 to provide job access to three different types of people; with the disability, living in non-metro areas and people from difficult socio-economic backgrounds, by teaching them English language and various other skills to get a job.
One of the founders, Shashaank Awasthi, who was in the city, shared their activities across India with The Hans India. “Getting a job is extremely difficult for persons with disabilities, people living in non-metro areas and people from difficult socio-economic backgrounds.
Differently-abled people need a complete re-orientation to understand the issues, train and find suitable job placement. We work for persons with disabilities and others in education, training and in securing jobs. We also work with organisations for disability inclusion,” said Shashaank Awasthi.
“Our main aim is to work with individuals to get a job and keep it forever. In education, we work with deaf students and teach them English language. The majority of our work is for job seekers among the deaf, and people who were orthopedically impaired.
We also recently started working with persons with an ‘Intellectual disability’. After the training, we will also provide post-training facility to get them a job. Our main aim is that a person with a disability must have an equal opportunity like normal people,” adds Shashaank Awasthi.
“Till now we have trained more than 1,500 candidates with different disabilities in the last five years. Our 400 candidates are placed in various companies like Accenture, Bank of America, Barclays Bank, HDFC Group, Cognizant, Indigo, IndusInd Bank, ITC Hotels, JP Morgan, Mercer, Royal Bank of Scotland and more,” shares Shashaank Awasthi.
He also said that training in a group is working more than individual training for the differently-abled people. He also said that 40 per cent of their staff are with disabilities and that helps them to understand the exact situations of similar people. The V-Shesh team has four training centers in India at New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru. The team is also working with schools in rural Tamil Nadu and Karnataka states.
“We already worked with IIM Ahmadabad, Bengaluru, Indore and Calcutta. We worked closely with Vocational Rehabilitation Centers (VRC). Last year in December we were recognised with a National Award for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities by the President of India. We worked with VRC Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai and Delhi,” concludes Shashaank Awasthi.
By V Sateesh Reddy
