Bareilly: In a unique initiative in Bareilly, a Delhi-based Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is all set to hire physically disabled persons for its Bareilly-based call centre under corporate social responsibility (CSR).Chief development officer (CDO) Satyendra Kumar said that the company wanted to hire 200 people.“Under CSR, there is a provision that a company can hire 0.5% differently abled persons of its total employees’ strength. The district disabled welfare department has been instructed to provide block-wise data of such people,” Kumar said.Welcoming the drive, 32-year-old Rakesh Singh said, “We have little opportunities for jobs in private sector since the companies consider us as a liability more than an asset to them. It is the first time when I came to know that some private companies are interested in hiring physically-disabled people. If more companies join hands in this noble cause, hundreds of differently-abled people in every district will be able to live with dignity.” Singh is a graduate and runs a ration depot in Sahukara in old city.CDO says, since BPOs require certain level of ability to work on computers and operate telephones, visually impaired, and deaf and mute cannot be hired under this drive. He said that all physical- disabled persons will get SMS on their mobile phones whose numbers were registered at district disabled welfare department. “Interested people can contact on 6395913920. Besides, in a day or two we will issue another WhatsApp number on which people can drop their queries,” he said.The data related to physically-disabled persons from all 15 blocks in the district is being collected. The candidate should be below 35 and have a minimum qualification of class XII.“At block level, we will be screening the applications before forwarding them to the BPO company to ensure minimum rejection of applicants. We have a good number of vacancies for such people. If all vacancies are filled up, it will certainly be a good achievement for us,” Kumar said.Caption: Rakesh Singh, physically disabled man who runs a ration depot. Credit: Rakesh Kashyap.

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