At a time when the State and the Central Governments lay stress on skill development and employment, the Baleswar Employment Exchange’s performance has been below expectation.
One of the vital organs of employment, the exchange is reeling under staff shortage which is the key reason of its poor work style.
Besides its headquarters at Baleswar, sub-offices have been established in Jaleswar and Nilgiri to cater to the need of registration of rural pockets.
Sources said the headquarters office while is crippled owing to want of adequate staff members, the branches at Jaleswar and Nilgiri are functioning for the namesake due to the very reason.
The main office while should have a strength of 15 staff members, currently there are only six, including the district employment officer and two data entry operators who are managing the office.
Again these staff members have to move to the branches once in a week to carry out registration.
More so, the unemployed youths, who come to Baleswar for online registration with documents and testimonials, don’t get their registration number on the same day. Rather they are being asked to come after a month.The district employment officer while should conduct employment fair in the headquarters and blocks till date this year no fair was conducted. Above all, whenever employment fair was organized in the past, they didn’t yield desirable result.
The companies and organisations who come for offering employment hardly take any professionally qualified persons. Most of the employments restricted within security guards, supervisors and ITI passed jobs etc are offered.
More so, those who get job in the companies outside the State return to the base due to various difficulties. The employment office doesn’t make a follow -up in the post employment phase with the recruiting companies.
The unemployed are forced to migrate outside the State through the touts without considering the safety and security aspects. Most of them face exploitation and torture of various natures. Those who register with the employment exchange hardly find any job opportunities even after years and the statistics show that only nearly 30 per cent of the registered got job. When contacted, district employment officer Shankar Charan Murmu for all these difficulties blamed inadequate manpower