(Left) Ram Kishor Sharma, Assistant Director (Employment), NCSC-DA, Directorate General of Employment (NCE) and Chiden Yaden, Director, Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Department, Nagaland displaying the MoU for setting up the NCSC-DA in Dimapur on January 29. (Morung Photo)
MoU signed for setting up NCSC-DA in Dimapur
Morung Express News
Dimapur | January 29
Things are looking bright for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in Nagaland. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a National Career Service Centre for the Differently Abled (NCSC-DA) has been signed between the Union Ministry of Labour & Employment and the Nagaland State Government.
The deal was put to ink on January 29 in Dimapur where Ram Kishor Sharma, Assistant Director (Employment), NCSC-DA, Directorate General of Employment (NCE) and Chiden Yaden, Director, Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Department, Nagaland signed the deed on behalf of the Union Employment Ministry and the Nagaland Government, respectively.
The Centre will be set at the Industrial Training Institute campus at Khushiabill, Dimapur. The Director of Employment and Skill Development Department, Chiden Yaden informed at a press conference today that the Centre will temporarily function from the existing buildings, while the permanent infrastructure will be built within the campus itself. According to Yaden and Sharma, the permanent structure for the training centre will be disabled-friendly.
Yaden added that the paperwork to lease out 2.87 acres of land to the NCE for the purpose was under process.
“Knowing the urgency of the matter, the government has gone all out to make sure that the MoU is signed today itself. Starting from today, I think all systems will be activated,” he said.
This will be the 22nd such Centre in the country since the inception of the NCSC-DA (erstwhile known as Vocational Rehabilitation Centres for the Handicapped) in 1968. At present 21 other NCSC-DAs are in operation in 20 states.
Empowering Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) is the mission objective of the programme through vocational guidance, career counseling, skill development and other rehabilitation support. Identifying the needs of PWDs, creating community awareness and social responsibility on the problems of the PWDs, demonstrating their abilities and providing professional guidance based on their residual functional abilities are the core objectives.
According to Ram Kishor Sharma, Assistant Director (Employment), DGE, the programme is designed to serve as a residential training centre, the costs sponsored by the Union Employment Ministry, including stipends to the PwD trainees.
India has an estimated 2.68cr PwDs in the country. In Nagaland, as per the 2011, the number is tipped at over 29,000.
