Punjab to launch job generation prog for urban youth
Punjab Government is all set to launch a new employment generation programme — Mera Kaam, Mera Abhimaan — for the state’s urban youth.
Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, speaking at the culmination of the fourth job fair on Thursday, announced the government’s decision to launch the new employment generation programme to ensure dignity of labour.
He also congratulated 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 40,517 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 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. 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.
He added that out of the total 1.13 lakh jobs offered in this 10-day long job fair held at 54 venues, as many as 41,878 placements were secured while 4370 aspirants were facilitated for self-employment.
The Chief Minister also pointed out that Ghar-Ghar Rozgar – Poor First was prioritizing the poor in skill development and provision of employment. He said that under it, 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.
50 COLLEGES IN PUNJAB IN NEXT 3 YEARS
Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday ALSO announced that the State Government would accomplish the target of establishing 50 colleges in the next three years.
The Chief Minister, after laying the foundation stone of Degree College for Girls at the local Boota Mandi, said that they had initiated the process for setting up 17 colleges in just two years of the Government while the previous Government had made only 30 colleges in its decade-long regime.
“The SAD-BJP Government has made an announcement in 2008 to establish a college here but there was no development in this regard and it was just a namesake announcement – not meant to be fulfilled,” he said.
Talking about the Degree College to be constructed at Boota Mandi, the Chief Minister said that it was a decade-old demand of the area, which has first raised the issue in 1992. This College would also be completed in one and half years at a cost of Rs 13 crores as the three-acre land needed for it had been transferred by Mandi Board to Higher Education Department, he said.
Capt Amarinder reiterated that the Congress Government would open the new degree colleges in those assembly constituencies which did not currently have degree colleges – to impart quality education to all needy sections of Punjab. He said that Jalandhar would get two Colleges - one at Boota Mandi and another at Shahkot.
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