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22nd March, 2016

Employing people with disabilities Sustainable Development of persons with disabilities

Presenter

Guneet Sethi

Director (HRD & CSR)

Gilard Electronics Pvt Ltd

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Disability- an illness, injury or condition that makes it difficult for someone to do the things that other

people do illness, injury or condition

An Inclusive SocietyA world that welcomes and includes everyone who is different.

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Disability

- differently abled

“Disability is not the inability to do things, but the ability to do things differently.”

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They are not just numbers .. They are

people.

26.8 million,Census 2011 –

2.21% PwDs in India

50% of PwDsare below age 30 and 70%

live in rural India

Only 1%PwDs employed in

mainstream jobs

* PwD - Persons with disabilities

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Est 1961

Gilard Electronics Pvt LtdManufacturing Plant at Mohali

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This is Ritu Sharma.

She’s been associated with Gilard for more than 3 years.

Ritu has lower limb disability due to polio.

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Ritu working as document control executive.

Ritu working as production engineer in the Gilard’s stamping shop.

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Ritu performing on-line inspection.

Ritu is awesome. Be like Ritu.

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Manish Kumar

Mandeep Kumar

Amrit Pal Singh

Jaswinder Kaur

Rishi Kumar

Ritu Kumar

Rishi Kumar

Quality Engineer

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Mandeep Kumar

Assembly Operator

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Manish Kumar

Assembly Operator

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Benefits of hiring differently abled

✤ More focused

✤ Low Absenteeism Rates

✤ Long tenures

✤ Loyal, reliable and hard working

✤ Diversification of work settings which leads to an overall positive work environment

“Everyone of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more

different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we

can do the same thing they can, just differently.”

–Marlee Matlin

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Marlee MatlinAcademy Award winning Actress & Activist

Won the Academy award for Best Actress in a leading role

for “Children of a lesser God”

Till date, she remains the youngest to win this award. She

was 21.

She’s the only deaf performer to win this award.

“My disability is just one part of who I am. At work, it’s what people can do that

matters.”

– NDEAM Theme 2015

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Manish Kumar

Mandeep Kumar

Amrit Pal Singh

Jaswinder Kaur

Rishi Kumar

Ritu Kumar

THANK YOU