GUWAHATI: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Labour and Employment, Santosh Kumar Gangwar on Friday inaugurated the office building of ‘National Career Service Centre for Differently Abled’ at Gopinath Nagar, Guwahati.
Gangwar said, ‘Specially abled people do not seek sympathy. All they want is opportunity to scale the heights of life.’
He stated that 3% of the total population of the country were specially abled. ‘However, they are highly spirited and their energy should be channelised by skilling them in different trades that can make them self-reliant’, added the Gangwar.
Assam’s Minister for Skill, Employment & Entrepreneurship, Chandra Mohan Patowary said that a society can be termed developed only when the specially abled ones are included in the developmental agenda. Minister Patowary, who is also the Transport Minister, said that a special employment drive would soon be undertaken by the department for the specially abled people.
Minister for Labour, Pallab Lochan Das said that departments like Industry & Commerce, Transport, Skill, Labour and Employment must work in tandem for overall development and growth of the specially abled people.