How tapping just 10% of India’s persons with disabilities can generate ₹4.5 trillion
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How tapping just 10% of India’s persons with disabilities can generate ₹4.5 trillion

Live Mint  

Facilitating entrepreneurial ventures of just ten per cent of India’s one crore people with disabilities could generate ₹4.5 lakh crore annually. This massive opportunity to empower PwDs in the employable age, who are left behind in the job market, is yet to be tapped, according to Thilakam Rajendran, the recipient of this year’s National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People Helen Keller Award for Lifetime Achievement. The initiative aims to support nano-entrepreneurs among PwDs, who lack the knowledge, skills, financial support, and market access, to build sustainable businesses via a structured programme. It introduced the NCPEDP – Helen Keller Award for Role Model Entrepreneurs in 2021, enabling visibility to entrepreneurs with disabilities, in sync with the nation’s entrepreneurship push under Viksit Bharat and Make in India programmes.

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Steps to foster entrepreneurial culture among students in Kerala
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Steps to foster entrepreneurial culture among students in Kerala

The Hindu  

The Department of Industries and Commerce organised a meeting of coordinators of Entrepreneurship Development Clubs in educational institutions across the State, in Kochi on Monday. Industries Minister P. Rajeeve inaugurated a new online portal to streamline the activities of the clubs and launched the ‘Dreamvestor’ project, which aims to nurture innovative entrepreneurial ideas among students and help them start new …

International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2022: Disability Inclusion Through Better Employability a Key Need
2 years ago

International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2022: Disability Inclusion Through Better Employability a Key Need

News 18  

On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, celebrated on December 3, the topic of ‘disability inclusion’ was in the air. According to the report, out of a population of 1.3 billion, India has an overall PwD talent of 3 crores, around 50 per cent of which i.e nearly 1.34 crore is employable. And while society is becoming more ‘accepting’, …

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