By providing ample employment opportunities, Apna Rozgaar Scheme (ARS) has helped unaided, disabled people to gain a respectful position in the society.
Why a person should avail ARS and how ARS stands apart from others can be understood through the following points:
Why Choose ARS?
- To avail ample scopes of enhancing income.
- To get exposed to the unlimited choice of trades.
- To induce a feeling of self confidence, worthiness.
- To be gainfully occupied as unemployment breeds exploitation.
- To reduces mental stress, depression, frustration.
- One should choose ARS because there are negligible job opportunities for the disabled
- One should choose ARS because the transport system for disabled are very limited and the daily transport system proves difficult for them.
- Because the disabled face architectural barriers en route work place and at work place.
- In order to avoid long distance commuting.
- To minimise exposure to injuries/trauma which the people with disabilities are more prone to.
- To save substantial money on transport.
- To make available family support.
- Most of all, to become a useful member of the society.
Apna Rozgaar Scheme has three-pronged approach- alleviation of poverty, reduction of unemployment and mainstreaming of the disabled people.
Benefits:-
The entrepreneurs who have already availed this facility can now afford better life and are earning on average approx Rs 3000-10000/ month. Fallowing benefits will accrue over a period of time.
- Self-employment and developing earning capacity of approx Rs 5000/ month and do some savings (Many of the entrepreneurs have opened an account in bank / post office or are saving money in other schemes)
- Bringing sense of competence, dignity and standing
- Enabling them to enter into a married life wherever applicable.
- Provide themselves better food & clothing.
- Ability to have better medical facilities/ aid & appliances. (One of them has recently bought a motorised tricycle worth Rs. 60,000/- from his savings)
- Better education to their children
- Raising their standard of living considerably. (A few of them now own colour TV, cooler, refrigerator, cell phone, etc).
- Fulfilled their responsibilities of getting their children married.
- Have capacity to give housing to self.
Through ARS they have been able to identify and excavate their hidden potentials. They themselves are amazed and amused by their success. ARS has induced self-confidence and self-esteem in them. From being no one they have become the one who can provide himself and his dependants basic amenities of life and sometimes a little more.