Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Wednesday launched “Sahyog Club” to which students of engineering and polytechnic colleges of the State would be registered as its members and entrusted the task of development and cleanliness of village ponds.
“The registered students would visit the ponds and assist the concerned Ponds Development Authority in the state,” said the Chief Minister while addressing the entrepreneurs of the state at the inauguration t of I–Tech (Industry Technical Excellence Changing Haryana) organised at Government Polytechnic, Manesar in district Gurugram.
This would be done under the ambitious Swachchh Bharat Internship Scheme (SBIS) launched by the Central Government recently to make Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan a big success.
On the occasion, Manohar lal accepted that there are around four to five lakh unemployed youth in the State and providing jobs to them is the biggest challenge.
About two lakh youth are unemployed every year in the state but Government jobs are only available to 20,000 people. Therefore, there is dire need to develop the skill of these youth, said he.
He said that the State Government has recently advertised 54,000 government jobs. Apart from this, the process of inviting applications for 38,000 grade-D jobs is also in progress, said the Chief Minister.
He urged the entrepreneurs to train the youth of Haryana as per their industries’ requirement so that they could avail of maximum employment opportunities.
The Chief Minister also assured that the government would facilitate in creation of more employment opportunities for the youth and would make every effort to bridge the gap in providing skilled youth to the industry.
The State Government has initiated various schemes to enhance their skill including “Saksham Rozgar Yojna” under which every unemployed youth are given 100 hours of work for three years, and honorarium of Rs 9,000 and Rs 7,500 is being given to them as per their qualifications. Till now, 35,000 to 40,000 youths have benefitted from this scheme, said he.
Earlier, the Technical Education Minister, Ram Bilas Sharma said that the Technical Education Department had dedicated this year to children and assured the industry and entrepreneurs that they would be able to provide potential students as per their need.
On this occasion, Additional Chief Secretary, Technical Education, Jyoti Arora, said that over one lakh children are studying in various engineering colleges of the state and the Technical Department updates the syllabus periodically.