Punjab Government would provide jobs to about 8,500 state’s youth during the “first-of-its-kind” International Job Fair in the country, scheduled to be held on July 30.
Announcing this after holding a joint review meeting of Employment Generation and Technical Education Departments regarding the arrangements for the job fair on Thursday, the state Technical Education and Employment Generation Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said that the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh would inaugurate the event and hand over appointment letters to the selected students.
Job Fair would be organized at Mohali’s Government College, Phase-IV on July 30.
“Earlier, there was offer of about 5,000 international jobs from various countries but now the number has gone up to 8,500 and it is likely to increase in the coming days. Representatives from six-seven countries would be participating in the job fair to provide jobs to the state’s youth,” said Channi.
The Minister directed the officers of the Technical Education Department to start publicity of the event to make job aspirants aware about this opportunity to work abroad without paying any fee to any of the agents.
He also said that online registration of job aspirants would start within few days on the Punjab Government portal, and appealed that the job seekers should carefully submit all their details on the portal to be eligible for the interview.