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Meenakshi Balasubramanian: Driving force

Meenakshi Balasubramanian has been working as Director, National Job Development Centre (N.J.D.C.), the Spastics Society of India, Mumbai.

Over the last eight years, she has been responsible for assessment and admission of students, selection of an appropriate area of training, evaluation and certification, finding suitable jobs in alternative students models of employment, finding avenues of training to much new employment opportunities, upgrading training models to suit technology and raising sponsorships for the cost of training of needy students.

Under her leadership, N.J.D.C. has created training facilities in high technology areas like web designing, desktop publishing and multimedia to enable disabled people to secure jobs in the open market. N.J.D.C. has been able to train over 700 students with disabilities, out of whom nearly 400 have been able to get employment in the corporate sector. Self-employment and sheltered employment in the community ranked next in order amongst the alumni.

Meenakshi networks with the corporate world, both public and private sectors, to educated them on the capabilities of persons with disabilities, the advantages to the organisation in particular and to society as a whole in employing them, and how employment can be made more feasible through a more positive attitude.

Meenakshi has received an award for social awareness called Key to Competitiveness–Service Excellence presented by the Institute for Research & Development in Service & Management.

Phone: 022-551 9413, 558 5267
Fax: 022-556 6810
E-mail: meenakshi@netscape.net

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