Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh recently ordered for filling 1.2 lac job vacancies in various sectors of the government. He mentioned that firstly the vacancies of health, education and medical education and research departments will be focused to be filled. The directive came during a high-level meeting to review the progress of the state government’s flagship ‘Ghar Ghar Rozgar and Karobar Mission’ scheme.
During the meeting, the Chief Minister asked Chief Secretary Karan Avtar Singh to work out the modalities for filling up the vacancies in government departments. He also directed the top bureaucrat to hold a meeting of administrative secretaries to work out the number of vacancies to be filled in various departments.
Mr. Singh also called for more technical training and vocational guidance programmes to help the local youth acquire skills needed to be gainfully employed in the domestic industry.
Amarinder Singh underscored the need for better coordination and synergy between the state’s skill development mission and the department of employment generation and training (DEGT) to bridge the gap between skill training and the required job profile.
Further Technical Education and Employment Generation Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said 30,000 youth had applied for placements in foreign companies at the ‘Overseas Employment Camp’ organised by the DEGT. Several foreign companies participated in the camp to select aspirants for 5,000 job openings, but only around 500 were selected, which showed that there was a gap between the skill training and the job qualification of the candidates.
The Minister added that CM also asked the finance department to make a budgetary provision of Rs. 23 crore in the next fiscal. Amarinder Singh was informed that 4.53 lakh youths had been provided jobs under the government’s ambitious scheme.
The Chief Minister also gave the nod to holding a state-level mega job fair in February.
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