To ensure adequate employment opportunities to the youth of the State, Punjab Government was committed to create one lakh jobs, both in Government and private sector, claimed Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Friday.
Addressing the youth after Punjab Youth Development Board chairman Parambans Singh Romana took over the charge, Sukhbir said as far as Punjab Government was concerned, there would be massive employment in the State in the next one and a half years.
“Besides recruitment in the Government, we are also creating job opportunities for youth in the new Sewa Kendras (12,000 jobs) besides private sector opportunities in IT, agro processing and manufacturing units coming up in the State,” he said.
Sukhbir told the youngsters present that they were the party’s backbone and their enthusiasm and commitment would be the game changer in the 2017 assembly elections.
He also appreciated Students’ Organisation of India (SOI) on the occasion saying that its landslide victory in Panjab University elections would serve as a spring board for the party in Punjab. “Due representation would be given to youth candidates by the SAD,” he said.