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Despite the People with disability have valuable skills to offer organizations, and show commitment and loyalty and the constitutional mandates, people with disabilities continue to be neglected in the workforce due to the attitude of employers. Majority of the companies are not willing to make any investment in modifying their infrastructure or policies to suit disabled people. Though the Differently abled employees are having lot of difficulties in the workplace, they neither disclosing nor asking reasonable accommodation due to various reasons. This paper aims to study the awareness of differently abled employees about reasonable accommodation and its availability at the work place and their constitutional rights on claiming the same and to trace the reason for not asking the reasonable accommodation from the employer. This study also analyse the impact of reasonable accommodation on the job performance of the differently abled employees. This study would change the perceptions of employees as well the attitude of employer in availing and providing reasonable accommodation that may yield mutual benefit for both.