Rehabilitation Scheme for the Differently Abled candidates since 2016. The department has framed this new scheme which articulates a holistic framework for achieving the goals of social inclusion and equality of opportunity for all citizens with disabilities.The scheme comprises of four components

  • Vocational and Career Guidance

  • Capacity Building

  • Coaching classes for Competitive Examinations.

  • Interest free Loan for Self Employment Ventures.

I) Vocational and Career Guidance

Through this component, career guidance classes, motivation, information regarding career opportunities and information regarding services and benefits for physically challenged are imparted to homogeneous group of candidates selected from the registrants of Employment Exchanges. The above services will also be given in co-operation with services of Special Schools, Non-Governmental Organizations and other institutions for physically challenged candidates.

II) Capacity Building

This programme intends to empower the candidates to face the challenges in the path of competition for a suitable career and to reach their goal. This also includes soft skill training to make them employable. Training is also given to develop entrepreneurship among the candidates for Self Employment ventures.

III) Training for Competitive Examinations

This programme includes training for Competitive Examinations for job opportunities notified by Government, quasi government and public undertakings. This is conceived as a continuing training programme from the start, ie, from the stage of applying for the vacancies up to placement stage. They are given a helping hand for applying for examinations, then training for competition and finally for placement. Refresher courses are also offered before two or three days of the competitive examinations.

IV) Self Employment Ventures

Eligibility

    • The candidates should be registrants of Employment Exchange.

    • Age – Between 21 and 60

    • The annual family income of the applicant should not exceed ₹2,00,000 (Rupees Two Lakh only)

    • In cases where the beneficiary, owing to the severity of the disability, is unable to  manage the enterprise  independently,  the loan may be sanctioned with the inclusion of a close relative,  namely the mother,  father, husband, wife, son, or daughter, as a co-beneficiary

Candidates who avail of self-employment loans are ineligible for benefits under the Unemployment Assistance Scheme; however, they remain eligible for nomination to regular vacancies through Employment Exchanges

Other Details

    • Self Employment Loans are primarily provided for individual enterprises; however, joint ventures may also be undertaken where feasible. In the case of joint ventures,  each beneficiary shall be eligible for the maximum permissible loan amount and the corresponding subsidy

    • Each beneficiary shall be eligible for a maximum loan amount of ₹50,000 (Rupees Fifty Thousand only). Additionally,  loans up to ₹1,00,000 may be sanctioned, subject to the viability of the project.

    • Fifty per cent of the sanctioned loan amount is granted as a subsidy.

No interest shall be charged on the amount sanctioned under the scheme. Application forms may be obtained from Employment Exchanges and can also be downloaded from the Department’s website

AT A GLANCE

    • An Employment Rehabilitation Programme for the Differentially abled persons

    • The scheme started in the year 2016

    • The scheme comprises of four components; Vocational and career Guidance, Capacity Building, Coaching classes for Competitive Exams, Interest free Loan for Self Employment Ventures

    • Age limit should be between 21 and 60

    • These beneficiaries are also eligible for nomination of regular vacancies through Employment Exchanges

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