Interview
Volume 5 Issue 2 - January 15, 2007
"We are an equal opportunity company": Niranjan Khatri
Niranjan Khatri,
General Manager of WelcomEnviron Initiatives, I.T.C. Welcomgroup, was recently awarded the N.C.P.E.D.P. – Shell
Helen Keller Award. In an interview with Chitra S. Shankar, he speaks about I.T.C. and
its innovative approach in employing disabled people. This interview is the
third in the series starting
The scale of challenge is very large and a very humble beginning has been made. We still have a long way to go.
3. What is the status of employment of disabled people
in terms of their representation in the total workforce?
Right now the figures are miniscule. In 11 months, we have managed to employ 34 disabled people and 6 more have been shortlisted. They are likely to join us in the first week of February. Through our stakeholder engagement, another 25 have been employed.
4. What is your role in I.T.C.'s
inclusive growth policy?
5. Are you considering
new strategies or technologies for greater inclusion of disabled employees in
your group?
- Sharing our best practices with chambers of commerce so that scaling up the inclusion of disabled people takes place as soon as possible by the industry to innovatively address attrition, a win win approach.
- Sharing the importance of making work place barrier free, use of existing work place innovatively to overcome the existing barriers, and use of assistive technology for creating enabling environment for disabled people.
- Many articles have been featured in trade magazines, newspapers, and television channels to demystify this sector for faster “unlearning by the abled”!
- Sharing with H.R. community that inclusion should be made a mainline activity as opposed to a corporate social responsibility activity.
- Observing different areas for inclusion of disabled people in the work force safely and productively: e.g., painting jobs for hearing impaired people, placing food in the food trays in the flight catering business, and so on.
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Interview
- "We are an equal opportunity company": Niranjan Khatri
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