Govt to launch employment programme for urban youths
Friday, 01/03/2019
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Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday announced his government’s decision to launch a New Employment Generation Programme for urban youth, to be titled, ‘Mera Kam Mera Abhiman’, to ensure dignity of labour. He was speaking here at the culmination of the fouth Job Fairs, and congratulated the 265 youngsters who got their job letters as part of the 10-day long job fairs held in all 22 districts under state’s ambitious Ghar Ghar Rozgar and Karobar mission. They had got recruited or placed in different Government and private sectors out of total 40517 selected for jobs during this phase of the job fairs. Giving details of the State Level Mega Job Fairs, the Chief Minister said that under the Rozgar Mission the state government was facilitating 808 youth per day in getting jobs and this number would be increased to 1000 per day soon. The aim of this mission is to provide one job for each family in a time bound manner and the scheme would certainly reach out to every household, he added.
The Chief Minister said that the state witnessed only five percent placements during its maiden job fair held in August-September 2017, with placement of 19,415 followed by 16 percent in February March 2018 with placement of 11,821 youngsters. The Chief Minister said that in the third Job fair the placement percentage jumped to 21 percent with 18672 placements and now in the fourth mega job fair the rate of placement was
55 percent. He said that out of the total 1.13 lakh jobs offered in this 10-day long job fair held at 54 venues, as many as 41878 placements were secured while 4370 aspirants were facilitated for self-employment.
The Chief Minister also pointed out that a unique initiative to provide jobs to at least 10 poor jobless youth of every village had been undertaken to ensure universal reach of the Scheme. Appreciating the efforts of Employment Generation Department, its Team and District Employment Bureaus, the Chief Minister said that till date a total of 5.76 lakh youth had been facilitated in getting employment in Private / Govt. Sector or Self-Employment ever since March 2017 with 40213 Government recruitment, 1.71 lakh Private Placement and 3.65 lakh facilitates for Self-employment.
