IL&FS Skills and Wadhwani Foundation join hands to empower the disabled

IL&FS Skills and Wadhwani Foundation join hands to empower the disabled IL&FS Skills Development Corporation (ISDC) and Wadhwani Foundation and have partnered to train and place 13,500 disabled across the country. The three-year advocacy initiative aims to enable those with disabilities to gain mainstream employment in the formal sector and thus foster their greater social acceptance. Wadhwani Foundation is supporting IL&FS Skills in placement-linked training of persons with disabilities between the ages of 18 to 32 years. The goal for IL&FS Skills is to use its extensive network of franchisees, partners, training providers and corporations in order to mobilise, train, mentor and place a minimum of 1,500 trainees in the 1st year, 5,000 in the 2nd year and 7,500 during the 3rd year. Furthermore, Wadhwani Foundation's Opportunity Network for Disabled (OND) will work towards raising awareness of the contribution of the disabled towards accelerated economic growth of India. The joint effort commenced from September 2012.