COIMBATORE: Disability seems not to be a challenge for R. Chandramohan, D. Mohankumar and N. Devaraj, employees of Roots Industries India Limited, when it comes to work.
All three have won awards for the good work they did for the firm recently. Mr. Mohankumar and Mr. Devaraj were given the Kaizen award, in recognition of the small contributions that helped the Roots in a big way. Mr. Chandramohan won the cent per cent attendance award.
“Employees are encouraged to give and implement small improvements – Kaizens – which are recorded. When implemented, it leads to improvement in quality of work, increase in performance, improvement in safety standards, etc.,” said S. Sudhakar, Head of the Human resource Department of the firm.
The annual attendance award is given to employees who are present on all working days except their weekly offs and national holidays.
For Mr. Chandramohan, the award is not new. “He has been bagging the award for the last 10 years consecutively,” Mr. Sudhakar says.
Mr. Chandramohan has completed eighth standard, and works as an operator in the Coil Winding Division. He lost his ability to speak when he was three years old.
The other two awardees, Mr. Mohankumar and Mr. Devaraj, too, are differently-abled.
The three men could perform well despite their disabilities partly due to the training they received from organisations that help the differently-abled to get employment.
Training
Surya Nagappan of Caliber, an organisation for the challenged, said his group and another NGO, the UDIS Forum, joined hands last year to train the differently-abled and get them employed in industries.
The NGOs train challenged people to adapt themselves to a working environment. They are also told to overcome their fears. “The challenged nurture a fear and believe that they will not be able to work because of their disability. Breaking this complex is a challenge,” Mr Surya said.
The organisations also told the employers to tweak their workplace a little to accommodate the differently-abled as employees. The two organisations had so far placed 570 persons in various industries, Mr. Surya said, adding, on behalf of the employers of the physically challenged, the Union Government paid the employers' Provident Fund contribution.
http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/22/stories/2011022250350200.htm
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