Tarun Karthick
Port Blair, 18 February 2023
The Model Career Centre (Employment Exchange), Directorate of Employment & Training, organized a ‘Rozgar Evam Swarozgar Mela’ in the community hall of Gram Panchayat Guptapara recently. Mr. B. S Jaglan, IAS Secretary (Labour, Employment and Training), also attended the programme. While addressing the gathering, Mr. Jaglan elucidated that the main objective of the ‘Rozgar Evam Swarozgar Mela’ is to provide a platform to private employers and jobseekers and also to disseminate information about various self-employment schemes being implemented by different departments for the benefit of unemployed youths.
He instructed the officials of Dept. of Employment to keep a record of the participants willing to take up self-employment schemes and provide skill-oriented training to the youths.
Mr. Venkatesh Ch., Principal, ITI, highlighted various skill development training schemes which are being imparted to the unemployed youths under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana-PMKVY in these Islands and also emphasised on the need for soft skills training and technical skill up gradation for the rural youths to enable them to get gainful employment.
Earlier, Mr. Durlav Das, Pradhan, Gram Panchayat, Guptapara welcomed the gathering and appreciated the efforts of the Department for organizing the Rozgaar and Swarozgaar Mela and appealed to the gathering to utilize the opportunity. Mr. Prakash Adhikari, Member, Zilla Parishad, also spoke on occasion and requested to set up a training center offering tailoring and beautician courses for the benefit of rural youths of Guptapara village. Mr. Nirmal, Samity Member, was also present on occasion. Altogether 150 prospective rural unemployed youths of Guptapara and nearby villages benefited from the programme and 17 unemployed youths were shortlisted for employment.