Swarajability: India’s first AI-based job platform for persons with disabilities.

Why in news?

• The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Hyderabad)has launched the beta version of ‘Swarajability’, a job portal powered by artificial intelligence that helps people with disabilities acquire relevant skills and find jobs.
• The platform will analyse the profiles of the job seekers and suggest the skills they would require to become eligible. A platform that addressed this challenge would help this vulnerable section of the population.
• The institute has developed the platform in association with Youth4Jobs, Visual Quest and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.
• While IIT-H offers its expertise in AI, Visual Quest India has developed the platform. Youth4Jobs provides skilling services to job seekers.
• The project is funded by Kotak Mahindra Bank.
• There are 21 million persons with disabilities in the country. About 70 per cent of them are either unemployed or underemployed.