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Enable India — Assistive Technology Employment Programme

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 82% 52/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Since 1999, Bengaluru NGO Enable India has trained blind, visually impaired and other people with disabilities in assistive technology and digital skills, placing thousands into jobs with corporate partners including IBM, Accenture and Goldman Sachs.

4,500+ people
People placed in jobs (cumulative, by 2016) (by 2016)
600 companies
Companies employing placed candidates (by 2016)
1,300+ candidates
Annual virtual job fair — candidates
100 recruiters
Annual virtual job fair — recruiters (from 40 companies)
~130,000
Cumulative people impacted (organisation's 2016 press estimate)
~500,000
Cumulative people impacted (organisation's current website claim)
Enable India — Assistive Technology Employment Programme

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Enable India
Period
1999–present
Keywords
disability employment, assistive technology, digital skills training, vocational rehabilitation

Context

Enable India is a Bengaluru NGO founded in 1999 by Shanti Raghavan and Dipesh Sutariya to train people with disabilities — including blind and visually impaired people — in assistive technology and digital/computer skills, then place them into competitive employment with corporate partners.

Activities

The organisation delivers assistive-technology and digital-skills training linked directly to a corporate hiring pipeline, including an annual virtual job fair for disabled candidates. Independent press describes named corporate partners such as IBM, Goldman Sachs, Accenture, Café Coffee Day and Thomson Reuters, and quarterly job fairs running since 2007 drawing trainees from as far as Kerala and Assam.

Results

The Christian Science Monitor (2016) independently documented more than 4,500 people placed into jobs across 600 companies, and an annual virtual job fair drawing 1,300+ candidates and 100 recruiters from 40 companies. Cumulative reach figures vary substantially between sources — roughly 130,000 people impacted per 2016 press coverage versus close to 500,000 on the organisation's current website — without an external audit reconciling the difference.

Conclusions

No independent, third-party impact evaluation of Enable India was found; reported outcomes rely on press corroboration of placement and reach figures rather than a formal evaluation design.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
Founders Shanti Raghavan and Dipesh Sutariya, Assistive-technology and digital-skills trainers / job-placement staff (not individually itemised in sources)

Conditions for success

  • Corporate hiring partnerships (IBM, Accenture, Goldman Sachs, Café Coffee Day, Thomson Reuters)
  • Annual virtual job fairs connecting trained candidates with recruiters
  • Assistive-technology and digital-skills training tailored to blind/visually impaired candidates

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Philanthropic / foundation funding

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