The Employment and Technical Education and Training (ET&T) Department would organise a four-day special recruitment drive for technical and management students from September 17 in Bhubaneswar.
Students having BTech, MCA, MBA and Pharmacy degree could participate in the drive to be organised for the first time. Interested students would have to register with the department in order to participate in the recruitment drive. The registration is expected to start from next week, official sources said.
Attending a meeting with officials at the Secretariat, ET and T Minister Sanjay Dasburma said the State Government has formed a committee under the chairmanship of the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) Vice-Chancellor to finalise the modalities for the recruitment drive.
Dasburma said the Government would talk with about 300 companies to participate in the job fair and recruit the eligible candidates for their companies.
Notably, 10,95,151 youths had registered themselves in employment exchanges of whom 10,42,826 were educated. During the past 14 years, as many as 42,222 persons have been recruited by different organisations and individuals. Of them, 35,849 youth have got jobs in the Government sector, said the official sources.