Assam rehab centre launches hospitality training programme for differently abled

GUWAHATI Shishu Sarothi, a Guwahati-based centre for rehabilitation and grooming for aggregate disabilities, has launched a certificate people successful hospitality for the otherwise abled, the archetypal of its benignant successful the northeastern region.

The certificate programme successful hospitality training, successful collaboration with the Gateway Institute of Hotel Management (GIHM), has been designed for a maximum of 40 candidates with antithetic types of impairment. They see those with cerebral palsy, locomotor disability, debased vision, and humor disorders specified arsenic haemophilia, thalassemia, and sickle cell.

“We person near retired the visually impaired due to the fact that we are not equipped with circumstantial Braille learning. The people is for candidates betwixt 18 and 40 years of age,” Saswati Saikia, the programme manager of Shishu Sarothi’s accomplishment improvement programme, told The Hindu.

“We expect candidates from crossed Assam, provided they person cleared Class 12 and tin negociate accommodation wrong a monthly stipend of ₹5,000. However, astir of the candidates are apt to beryllium from Guwahati and adjoining areas,” she said.

LIC Housing Finance Limited is supporting the six-month programme nether its Sarthak Project. The people includes a period of internship with large organisations successful the hospitality assemblage successful Assam.

According to GIHM’s centre head, Pallav Baruah, the people has been certified by the Assam Skill University.

“The candidates volition beryllium trained successful beforehand bureau management, housekeeping, integer literacy, and nutrient and beverages. The enactment to beryllium provided includes afloat sum of the people fee,” helium said.

Established successful 2017, the GIHM was adjudged the champion edifice absorption institute successful Guwahati by Merit Awards and Market Research successful Noida connected December 20, 2025.

Shishu Sarothi, founded successful 1987, presently has implicit 100 students taught by trained peculiar educators and a squad of parents and volunteers. The centre caters to children with antithetic developmental disabilities successful Assam and beyond.