Dr Jayaraj MK is an expert in the areas of education, employment, and rehabilitation for people with intellectual challenges. He is currently the Director of the ULCCS Foundation, the social responsibility wing of the Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society. He was appointed as the one-man commission by the Government of Kerala for the study of intellectually challenged individuals in 2013. Dr. Jayaraj, who has worked as the Director of the State Institute for the Mentally Challenged and as the Janashiksha Samsthan Co-ordinator of the Ministry of Central Human Resource, is now an active member of the Central Social Justice Department’s Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) Committee and RCI Zonal Co-ordination Committee as well.
Differently Abled: Shortfalls in Our Collective Consciousness