The National Career Service Centres (NCSCs) for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (erstwhile NCSC) operate three courses, namely Special Coaching Scheme, Computer O Level Training, Computer Hardware Maintenance Training. The scheme was launched in 1969-70 in 4 Centres on a pilot basis. Keeping in view the success of the scheme, it was extended to another nineteen States in a phased manner. At present, twenty Five National Career Service Centres for SCs & STs are functioning in twenty Five States/Union Territories. These centres provide Occupational Information, Individual Guidance and organize Confidence Building Programmes for the benefit of the job seekers belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and review the Old cases. The applicants are provided guidance at the time of their registration with the Employment Exchange and also when they are sponsored against notified vacancies. The Centre also follow up with the employers for placement against vacancies reserved for the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates.
The Director General of Employment (DGE), Ministry of Labour & Employment launched the scheme of the setting up of NCSC (National Career Service Centre) for DA with the assistance of the USA in 1968. At present, there are 24 NCSC for DA in the country, which evaluate the residual capacities of the handicapped (referred to as persons with disabilities also) in the categories of Locomotor, Visual & Hearing impaired, Mild Mental Retardation, and Leprosy Cured and provide them adjustment training, to facilitate their early economic rehabilitation. No formal job-oriented skill training is provided at these centers. Further rehabilitation services are extended to persons with disabilities living in rural areas through mobile camps. These 24 NCSCs for DA are located at Agartala, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Dehradun, Delhi, Dimapur, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Patna, Puducherry, Ranchi, Shillong, Sri Nagar, Trivandrum, Una, Vadodara. Out of these Vadodara is exclusively for women.
