After launching ‘Saksham Yuva Scheme’ to give employment opportunities to post graduate unemployed youth, Haryana Government is now planning to give honorarium of Rs6000 to XII pass youths for three years.
The Chief Minister Manohar lal announced this while inaugurating a session on ‘youth empowerment, enhancing job opportunities in Haryana’ at Haryana International Trade Expo (HITEX) in Faridabad on Monday.
The five-day event, being jointly organised by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC), will conclude on March 28.
The businessmen from six countries are participating in the event and exhibiting their products. Besides, job fairs are also being held for the unemployed youth and interviews are being conducted. In the last two days, more than 200 youths got job offers.
The Chief Minister gave offer letters to 11 youths on Monday, the second day of the event.
HITEX is laying stress on providing employment to the unemployed youth besides popularising the Enterprise Promotion Policy of the State Government. At the expo, key points of the policy were highlighted and people were told why Haryana had become the preferred choice for investors.
The Chief Minister lauded the effort and said that such job fairs should be organised in every district of the state to make job opportunities available to the youth nearer home.
The State Government is working on skill development in addition providing qualitative and employable education to the youth. Skill Development Mission has been set up the state and work on setting up Skill Development University has been started in Palwal district. The Government is contemplating to add courses in the curriculum in the final year to make the students eligible for employment, he said.
Under ‘Saksham Yuva Scheme’, each youth enrolled gets Rs 9,000 per month, including Rs3,000 as unemployment allowance and the remaining amount is paid as honorarium in lieu of 100 hours of work, he added.
Earlier, presiding over the program,Vipul Goel, Minister of Industries and Commerce, said the State Government had created business-friendly environment to promote industry in the state.
As a result, during last year, Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit which was held at Gurugram fetched MoUs worth Rs6 lakh crore against the target of Rs1 lakh crore. Out of these, work has already been started on MoUs worth Rs1.5 lakh crore, he added.