As a part of their social initiative wazifa, a scholarship programme for the deserving and needy families of the Delhi Police, Police Families Welfare Society (PFWS) in association with Kaira Enterprises organised the first ever mega job fair on Wednesday at Kingsway Camp in the national Capital.
This was the first ever platform of PFWS where a unique opportunity was given to the wards of police personnel, retired police personnel and general public to apply for various vacancies at a single forum.
One of the most valuable effort of the job fair was the mandatory counselling sessions which were held from November 25 to November 27 at various districts. This helped in the alignment of thought process of the job aspirants. About 70 well-known national and multi-national companies from various sectors like automobile, IT, Software, insurance and retails among others participated in the fair.
Out of 7,000 registered candidates of police families, the eligible candidates were offered job letters by a number of companies.
Total 58 companies participated and as per figures provided by 46 companies till now 687 candidates have been shortlisted. 66 candidates have been given offer letters and two retired police personnel including an ACP and ASI have also been shortlisted.
The mega job fair was inaugurated by Commissioner of Delhi Police Alok Kumar Verma.
He applauded the efforts of PFWS and Kaira Enterprises on organising such a wonderful event, which have not only helped many deserving and eligible members of police families but has succeeded in bringing forth a sense of belongingness.
Eligible wards of police personnel were felicitated as a part of the ongoing process of wazifa initiative.
During the fair 41 divyang children were felicitated with Rs 50,000 each for their better future as help. Seventeen families of deceased police personal who died during their duties were helped with Rs 1 lakh each.
36 wards of police personnel were awarded with Rs 20000 each for their achievements in sports
The second edition of “Koshish-Ek Asha” the biannual PFWS newsletter was released by Verma and Patnaik in the presence of senior members of PFWS.
Vice President, PFWS, Dr. Sushi Singh touched upon the highlights of achievements of PFWS within a shortest span of time in the history of any organization and became emotional while giving the formal vote of thanks.
Total registration in the fair was 4858 on Wednesday out of which 4202 belonged to police families and 656 belonged to general public.