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Blue Dart Expands Inclusive Workforce, Hiring 200+ Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) Across Mainstream Roles
Blue Dart, South Asia’s premier express air and integrated transportation & distribution company, announced a significant milestone in its inclusion journey with the onboarding of over 200 Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) across core operational and support functions. The newly hired employees are now contributing in full-time mainstream roles across sorting centres, customer experience, warehousing, and last-mile support.
This initiative is part of Blue Dart’s long-term commitment to building an inclusive organisation that drives equal opportunity, sustainable livelihoods, and dignity at work. The company has partnered with trusted ecosystem enablers such as Sarthak Educational Trust, leveraging skill development, workplace assessments, infrastructure alignment, and ongoing support to ensure seamless integration
Speaking on the milestone, Balfour Manuel, Managing Director, Blue Dart, said “For us, inclusion is not a programme – it is a principle. True progress begins only when everyone has the opportunity to participate and belong. Every individual brings distinct strengths and perspectives, and when Persons with Disabilities join us in mainstream roles, they are not being accommodated at the margins – they are shaping the core of our business. We are creating pathways to confidence, independence and dignity, backed by clear goals and measurable outcomes. At Blue Dart, inclusion is deliberate, accountable, and central to the way we move forward.”
As part of this programme, Blue Dart has introduced sensitisation workshops, sign language training, customised workplace adaptations, and role-based enablement frameworks ensuring every employee is equipped, empowered, and set up for success. The organisation will continue to strengthen its hiring pipeline and expects this number to grow further in the coming year.
Reinforcing the company’s commitment, Beena Jacob, CHRO, Blue Dart,, shared: “Every hire represents progress. When we integrate diverse talent into core business functions rather than symbolic spaces, we shift the focus from sympathy to merit from accommodation to empowerment. We are proud of the inclusive culture our teams are nurturing, where every individual is respected, enabled, and valued for their potential.”
Partnerships with Sarthak Educational Trust and other ecosystem organisations have enabled accessible recruitment processes, job-readiness programmes, and continued workplace support.
Dr. Jitender Aggarwal, Founder, Sarthak Educational Trust, added “Blue Dart is a benchmark example of what real inclusion looks like — equal opportunity, equal dignity, and equal expectations. Their approach proves that when organisations lead with intent and empathy, society moves forward.”
About Blue Dart Express Ltd:
Blue Dart Express Ltd., South Asia's premier express air and integrated transportation & distribution company, offers secure and reliable delivery of consignments to over 56,400+ locations in India. Blue Dart is a provider of choice for its stakeholders due to its customer centric approach and aims to further strengthen this partnership. As part of DHL Group’s DHL eCommerce division, Blue Dart accesses the largest and most comprehensive express and logistics network worldwide, covering over 220 countries and territories, and offers an entire spectrum of distribution services including air express, freight forwarding, supply chain solutions, customs clearance etc.
The Blue Dart team drives market leadership through its motivated people, dedicated air and ground capacity, cutting-edge technology, wide range of innovative, vertical specific products and value-added services to deliver unmatched standards of service quality to its customers. Blue Dart's market leadership is further validated by its position as the nation’s most innovative and awarded express logistics company for exhibiting reliability, superior brand experience and sustainability which include recognition as one of ‘India's Best Companies to Work For’ by The Great Place to Work® Institute, India, ranked amongst ‘Best Multinational Workplaces in Asia’ by The Great Place to Work® Institute, Asia, voted a ‘Superbrand’ and ‘Reader’s Digest Most Trusted Brand’, and has achieved the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. It has also been listed as one of Fortune 500’s ‘India's Largest Corporations’ and Forbes ‘India's Super 50 Companies’ to name a few. Blue Dart’s Diversity and Inclusion initiatives have also led to it being recognized as one of India’s ‘Best Workplaces for Women’ in 2021 and ‘Best Organisations for Women’ in 2025 for the 4th time by the ET Now. Furthermore, Blue Dart was awarded the ‘Best In-House Legal Team’ award in the logistics category at The Economic Times Global Legal Awards 2024-2025.
Blue Dart fulfils its social responsibility through its Go Programs namely Go Green – Climate Protection, Go Help - Drinking Water, Livelihood, Health, Disaster Management and Go Teach -Education.
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Dated : January 22, 2026.
