To further drive the inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) into the mainstream workforce, Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace, signed an MoU with the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE) and Skill Council for Persons with Disability (SCPwD).
The MoU was endorsed within the sight of Secretary of DEPwD Ms Anjali Bhawra at Pt. Deendayal Antyodaya Bhawan in New Delhi.
As a feature of the three sided arrangement/MoU, Flipkart will work with DEPwD and SCPwD to make organized expertise advancement intercessions and empowering components for carrying PwDs into the standard economy and online business area specifically throughout the following two years mutually. Flipkart will give simple admittance to learning open doors for PWDs to gain important abilities through the National Skill Qualification Committee and abilities for store network tasks through Flipkart’s Supply Chain Operations Academy. In its obligation to building a comprehensive production network, Flipkart today utilizes more than two lakh labor force with an organized variety program that incorporates utilizing ladies and People with Disabilities (PwDs). With a few drives to drive their incorporation and advancement, Flipkart has been perceived as a top fair work business by Fairwork Foundation for quite some time.
Remarking on this event, Shri Virendra Kumar, Hon’ble Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment, said, “Divyangjan or Persons with Disabilities need support and not compassion. This MoU between DEPwD, SCPwD and Flipkart will open up open doors for themselves and assume a significant part in outfitting them with the right ranges of abilities to improve their employability.”
Rajneesh Kumar, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Flipkart, said, “As a serious corporate resident, Flipkart is centered around building a comprehensive store network labor force by including individuals from various different backgrounds. We are glad for the way that we have men, ladies and individuals with incapacities cooperating in our inventory network, helping break the shame around their support in the standard labor force and we are focused on expanding their interest. Our MoU with the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities and Skill Council for Persons with Disability will empower Flipkart to utilize its ability and learning throughout the years in upskilling PwDs and making a biological system for their business.”
Through its drive Ekartians with Disabilities (EDAB), what began in 2017, Flipkart has set out work open doors for great many individuals with incapacities (PwDs) for changed jobs across its production network. It means to give profession amazing open doors to PwDs in its production network for reasonable financial development and contribute emphatically to society. In July last year, Flipkart laid out the very first PwD-run conveyance center point in New Delhi, oversaw start to finish by PwDs, working in different jobs, including conveyance chiefs, clerks, and group pioneers. Flipkart today utilizes near 1,500 individuals with handicaps across its inventory network.
Representatives are given preparation in work processes, including refinement meetings, unique study hall preparing and on-work preparing with the assistance of communication via gestures translators. Representatives in shopper confronting jobs, like wishmasters (conveyance chiefs), are given client cooperation cards to assist any consultation disabled workers with speaking effortlessly. While conveyance leaders have SOS-empowered cell phones and exceptional identifications and cheat sheets to speak with clients, workers with incapacities on the distribution center floor are related to a separated variety coat as a safety effort. Flipkart likewise gives communication through signing preparing to its current representatives to cause the PwDs to feel great.
