For
successful contributions towards empowering persons with disabilities
through participative inclusion in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Scheme (MnreGS)
Dr
S Vijayakumar, an IAS officer of the 1993 batch of the Tamil Nadu
cadre, has a distinguished record with enviable acumen in public
administration. He is known for proficiency in giving shape and
structure to government schemes and policies such that they are
optimised in accomplishment of their objectives. As the Commissioner,
Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Dr Vijayakumar was instrumental in
conceptualising and initiating efforts to include Persons with
Disabilities (PwDs) under the MNREGS. While the MNREGS guidelines
indicated providing equal and suitable opportunity for employment of
PwDs, its implementation suffered due to factors such as lack of
clarity, barriers in attitude, availability of suitable work and
services, and so on. 
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