With the aim to develop technical temper among the educated youth, the Uttar Pradesh government plans to introduce an internship scheme in which the trainees will be linked to technical institutes to get vocational exposure as well as a siphoned of Rs 2,500 per month.
"Under this scheme, students of classes 10 and 12 and those pursuing graduation will be linked to various technical institutes and industries. Each youth will do internship for six months to one year and will be given Rs 2,500 as honorarium every month.
Out of this amount, Rs 1,500 will be given by the Central government and Rs 1,000 by the state government," Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said.
The chief minister was addressing a job fair organised by the Labour Department and Employment Exchange at Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay University in Gorakhpur on Sunday. "After completion of internship, the government will also arrange placement for the youth. A HR (human resource) cell will be created for this," Yogi said.
"Our effort is to open an ITI and a skill development centre in each tehsil of the state, to give a platform to the youth for development of skills," he said. The chief minister said that after the
formation of the Bharatiya Janata Party government in UP in 2017, the skill mission programme was accelerated.
"Through the Labour Department and Employment Exchange, we have done three times more work in just three years than the previous governments were able to do in five years," he said.
"The BJP government ended the process of interview for non-gazetted posts of classes IV, III and II," he said.
The chief minister said that Uttar Pradesh was the first state in the country which had succeeded in giving government jobs to more than 2.5 lakh youth within three years. "With an investment of more than Rs 2.5 lakh crore through Investors' Summit, 35 lakh youth have been linked with jobs and employment," he added.
Besides, the chief minister said, the government had made it mandatory to reserve 20 per cent posts in the police force for girls so that they could play a bigger role in the security of the state.
The chief minister said that after coming to power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi kept the youth of the country on priority and launched programmes like Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, Startup India, Standup India, Make in India and Mudra Yojana in the country. "All these schemes are going to provide employment to the youth," he added.
The chief minister said that the world's largest DefExpo 2020 was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 5 in Lucknow. "This expo was an opportunity to connect with the glorious moments of India's valour and military history. In this event, through their participation, the defence ministers, defence chiefs and ambassadors of 70 countries have proved that India will now become not only an importer but also an exporter in the field of defence, the focal point of which will be Uttar Pradesh," Yogi said.
He said that many companies in the country and from abroad had signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for investment in the Defence Manufacturing Corridor. "This will bring investment of Rs 50,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh and five lakh youth will get jobs," the chief minister said.