The State Government has decided to appoint 50 professional youths at least in 18 departments both at the State and district levels.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik approved a proposal to this effect on Thursday. The move is being taken up to promote educated youths as part of the Government’s Young Professional Programme (YPP).
These young professionals would help the departments in preparing plans and budgets, implementation of programmes, monitoring, evaluation and several other important works.
Their professional skills are expected to bring about an
efficient work culture, apart from inducing a need for dependency on technological application.
These young professionals would be appointed for a period of five years.
However, the Government would assess their work every year before their services are renewed.
The professionals to be eligible for the posts need to have basic qualifications like Masters Degree or BTech, CA, llB, MBBS and MBA. They would be entitled to receive a salary of Rs40,000 per month.
The departments in which the professionals would be appointed are School and Mass Education, Higher Education, Housing and Urban Development, Rural Development, Revenue and Disaster Management, Agriculture.
Some other departments in which youths will be appointed are Fisheries and Animal Husbandry, Women and Child Development, Information and IT, Water Resources, Works, Finance, Planning and Coordination and General Administration.
While 32 of the
professionals would be appointed in these departments, the remaining 18 would be engaged at the district
level, the official sources said.