Hiring of Persons with Disabilities in the Indian Private Sector: An Overview

Abstract

Disability hiring in India across organisations has increased gradually and remains differentiated depending on the nature of the organisation. Effective hiring of people with disabilities has occurred where there has been a planned effort to map jobs to specific disabilities and have scaled-up inclusion programmes. Challenges persist for firms on how to manage disabled employees, especially when there are performance management issues, and also at times on operational levels. There are also challenges for firms to balance the agenda of hiring disabled people with agendas focused on gender and LGBTQ equality.