With a view to widen the scope of ‘Saksham Yuva Scheme’ and generate more employment opportunities for the educated unemployed, Haryana Government has decided to involve private sector in effective implementation of this ambitious scheme and give opportunity to the science graduates to join the scheme from April 1 onwards.
The State Government would also organise an employment fair on March 27 during the 5-day Haryana Industrial Trade Expo (HITEX)-2017 to be organised in association with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry at Faridabad from March 24.
The Chief Minister Manohar lal, who reviewed the functioning of the ‘Saksham Yuva Scheme’ in a meeting with Minister of State for labour and Employment, Nayab Saini and senior officers, here said that the State Government would be a facilitator and the private sector could engage the best available capable youth to meet their requirement.
There is a lot of demand for educated youth in the private sector and the scheme could prove very useful to cater their need, he added.
The Chief Minister said that as many leading entrepreneurs would participate in the job fair, it should be ensured that maximum youth registered on the ‘Saksham Yuva’ portal get employment.
He also directed the Employment Department to evolve an online mechanism at headquarter level to provide prompt approval to the requisitions of various departments sent by the respective Deputy Commissioner under the scheme.
The Chief Minister also asked the officers to ensure that in case a Department has engaged the required number of youth, the ‘Saksham Yuva’ already enrolled would be given employment in other departments upto three years or till he or she attains the age of 35 or till they, of their own, leave the job.
He also directed that the respective Deputy Commissioners would ensure the joining of ‘Saksham Yuva’ in the respective departments by seventh of every month. However, they should not be allowed to join after 15th, he added.
It was informed in the meeting that the scheme has got overwhelming response as 21,896 applicants have so far registered themselves on the web-portal by March 15. Various state government departments like Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Panchayats, Industries, Election, Horticulture, Elementary Education and offices of Deputy Commissioners have requisitioned Saksham Yuva for work and 7,858 youth have so far been deputed to work.
While an allowance of over `4.97 crore has been disbursed among the approved applicants from the month of November 2016 to February 2017, over `97 lakh has been disbursed as honorarium from December 2016 to February 2017.
Under the scheme, unemployment allowance at the rate of `3000 per month and honorarium upto `6000 per month in lieu of 100 hours of work are given to eligible and registered unemployed post-graduates under the age of 35 years.