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New Delhi, May 2

There is need for partnership to ensure `affirmative action' to empower marginalized people to play their role in the development of the nation, said the Minister of State for Industry, Mr Ashwini Kumar.

Addressing a meeting on `Disability: Mainstreaming the marginalized', organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry and IBM here on Tuesday, the Minister said such action would be served by voluntary compliance rather than enforcement. He asked the corporate sector to go beyond mere commitments.

He stated that poverty, illiteracy and disease were the main causes of disability. Empowering the marginalised sections of society was not only a Constitutional but also social responsibility.

Meanwhile, Mr Sujit Gupta, CII Core Group on Disability, said that though disabled people constituted 7 per cent of the country's population and despite the Government's stipulated 3 per cent job reservation for them, only one per cent found employment and that too at the lowest level. Corporate companies such as IBM and Infosys presented the initiatives they have taken in employing the differently-abled in their organisations.

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