Haryana Government has set for itself a target to provide employment to two lakh youths in the State under the Saksham Yojana, Chief Minister, Manohar lal Khattar announced in Karnal on Saturday while presiding over a review meeting of the development works with officers in Karnal District.
He said efforts would be made to ensure that no educated youth remains unemployed.
Khattar said officers had been directed to appoint youth under the Saksham Yojana in various departments where there is shortage of employees. Apart from the Government offices, the youth would also get job opportunities in industrial units.
Plans have been drawn to set up a trauma centre every 60 kilometres to provide instant medical facility to those sustaining injuries in road accidents on national highways, and work in this direction had already started.
later, the Chief Minister inaugurated and laid foundation stones of various development projects costing Rs 115 crore in different parts of the district.
He said a sum of Rs 325.16 crore would be spent in Karnal under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT). This amount would be spent on sewerage and drainage, urban transport and development of green spaces and parks. About Rs 84.50 crore would be spent on the drainage of rain water whereas Rs 160 crore would be spent on laying sewerage lines.
The Chief Minister said out of the 3,500 announcements made by him in the entire state, 2,100 had either been executed or were nearing completion. Work on the remaining would be completed by the end of this year.
At the review meeting, Khattar directed the Director, Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College, Dr. Surender Kashyap, and the Civil Surgeon, Dr. Yogesh Sharma, to start OPD in old building of the general hospital until the new building is constructed, so that patients did not face any inconvenience.
The Chief Minister was told at the meeting that rural areas had been made 100 per cent ODF under the Swachh Bharat Mission and urban areas would soon be made ODF.