Monthly Archives: November 2018
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An IT company with ‘special’ agenda
25 physically challenged graduates land jobs with VGS
His joy knew no bounds when Kondapu Appala Reddy has been told by his friends that an IT-enabled services (ITES) company wants to recruit physically challenged graduates as its employees.
“I had my own doubts but I was jubilant when I got selected for the job under a pilot project launched in March, 2018 with just two employees,” Mr. Reddy, a deaf and dumb youth in early 20s who did M. Com.
He says the warmth with which he was greeted by other employees of the Visakhapatnam-headquartered firm — Virtual Guard Services (VGS) — was really very touchy.
Same is the feeling of Sagi Pavan Kumar Varma, who did MCA. “I almost lost hope of getting a decent job. However, on knowing about VGS’ commitment to provide livelihood to physically challenged unemployed youth, I applied for it and subsequently got the offer letter,” he says.
“Being a challenged person became hindrance for my getting a job. However, VGS management gave me an opportunity to prove myself that I am an able person just like others. Now my confidence level has gone up and my family is very happy that I have become financially independent,” he points out.
A dream come true
The company has so far provided jobs to 25 persons, including 14 speech and hearing challenged. All of them never dreamt that they could find jobs in an ITES company located at Tech Hub on the compound of Tech Mahindra.
VGS is the Indian arm of Pro-Vigil, an American company offering video monitoring and surveillance on real-time basis for clients in the United States and the United Kingdom. It also offers services like auto dealer and parking lot security to detect theft of tyres, tailgates and even vehicles, monitoring revenue audit, quality audit, IT and software maintenance support to its clients.
‘No easy task’
For training the special employees is no easy task. Process trainer Taninki Sreevani says she is very happy with the response from their new employees and all of them are performing well after undergoing special classes on how to rise to the occasion on their job requirements.
VGS has its R&D unit in Hyderabad. It has about 400 employees in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam units.
VGS Centre Head Kishore Dasari has told The Hindu that the organisation conceived idea to act differently by extending its support in the form of permanent jobs to physically challenged youth under CSR to prove the fact that they are as abled as others provided they are given the right support and training.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States / by Santosh Patnaik / Visakhapatnam – November 28th, 2018
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Skater Rana’s marathon reaches Vizag
‘Indian Golden Quadrilateral’ aims at raising money for girl child education
Noted skater Rana Uppalapati, who has taken up the task of covering the 6,000-km Golden Quadrilateral to create awareness and raise money for girl child education, reached Visakhapatnam on Thursday.
The ‘Indian Golden Quadrilateral’ programme, being funded by the Titan Company Limited in collaboration with the Tata Group, was flagged off at Hosur in Karnataka on September 5 and he had so far covered Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha.
The 37-year-old skater, who covered about 4,500 km and reached his home town after 70 days, was given a warm welcome by the denizens, skaters and friends, at the VUDA Children’s Arena in Siripuram.
Money mobilised so far
He is accompanied by a six-member logistic team, who travel in a car ahead.
“In the last 70 days, we have interacted with at least 5 lakh people across various parts of the country and raised ₹3.60 crore, which would be enough for educating close to 10,000 girls. But our target is to provide education for 25,000 girls and I am sure in the next 30 days, we would achieve it,” Mr. Rana Uppalapati said.
Earlier he undertook two such skating trips to create awareness on health issues.
The longest trip he had taken up was from Vizag to Chennai, around 800 km.
Covering 6,000 km now was definitely a tough task, “but it will be a milestone if I can achieve it,” he said.
“In the first 30 days, due to bad roads, high temperature and a few other hassles, we would cover around 12 km per day, starting at 4 am. But later we started to cover close to 50 to 60 km, on a daily basis. Today, I skated from Tagarapuvalasa to Lankapalem, covering almost 67 km in just two and half hours. When we show people the amount of difficulty involved in our journey, the message reaches in a strong way,” said Mr. Uppalapati.
He said his journey would end by meeting kids, communities and other people in schools, colleges, meeting halls etc every day.
“Apart from educating underprivileged girl children, we are also creating awareness among children on safety, especially on good touch and bad touch.”
The mission is expected to end on December 18 at Hosur. A grand event is being planned in Bengaluru.
Managing Director of the Titan Company Bhaskar Bhat, AVP & Head, Corporate Sustainability Titan NE Sridhar, family members, city-based skaters, athletes and others were present.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> States> Andhra Pradesh / by Harish Gilai / Visakhapatnam – November 22nd, 2018