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Dilip Deshpande: Trail-blazer
An
engineer (B.E.Mechanical) by training, Dilip Deshpande is an industrial safety
consultant, well known in Maharashtra and Goa. He is also a qualified Chartered
Engineer.
In the course of his profession in industrial safety, Dilip came across various cases of victims of industrial accidents which had resulted in severe disabilities to the workers.
Realising that the victims of such accidents were exports in their respective trades, but unable to work only due to their disability, Dilip decided to somehow, utilise their expertise. After discussions with managements, workers, unions, NGOs and disabled persons, he developed a rehabilitation project known as Entrepreneurship Development and Rehabilitation Centre for the Handicapped (E.D.A.R.C.H.). This was a unique scheme whereby a heterogonous group of disabled people were established on a commercial footing in the production and supply of industrial products by imparting on-the-job vocational training.
Such a group, comprising of people with visual, hearing and mental impairments and orthopaedic disabilities, has already supplied more than 15,000 V.R. Lever Assemblies to Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd., Pune, according to their exact specifications and quality standards.
Two other groups are currently undergoing on-the-job training in Tata Safari car door plastic components, and Tata Sumo and other vehicular stepney covers. Another is involved in the production of industrial plastic caps.
For their untiring efforts to rehabilitate disabled persons, E.D.A.R.C.H. has received the National Award for Outstanding Placement Agency for the disabled from the Prime Minister of India.
Phone: 020-445 7636
Fax:020-445 5697
E-mail: edarch@ pn2.vsnl.net.in
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