An Employment-cum-Career Mela (Madai) for the year 2013-14 has been organised under the aegis of directorate of Employment and Training of the Manpower Planning Department here on Sunday. MP Vishnu Deo Sai was the chief guest of the function.
Twenty private sector institutions had installed their stalls to give employment to the educated unemployed youths of the area, whereas, different government departments and vocational training providers from private sector had put up 20 stalls to impart training to the youths in various trades.
Addressing the function chief guest Vishnu Deo Sai said that the state government so far had provided job to lakhs of unemployed persons. Educated unemployed could get jobs in the private institutions, according to their eligibility. They should take benefit of the occasion, he added.
Sai said that the State Government has organised this employment mela to provide employment opportunity to the educated unemployed of the district. He said that employment mela had started in the State in 2010-11. Thousands of people got opportunity to get employment in these Melas.
Over the programme, Jashpur MlA Rajsharan Bhagat said that it was our first priority to give employment to all, in accordance to the thoughts of chief minister of the State.
Former chairman of Tourism Board Krishna Kumar Rai, senior social activist Naresh Nande, elected peoples’ representatives, eminent citizens, collector Himshikhar Gupta, CEO district Panchayat JP Maurya, additional collector DK Singh and others officers and employees were present on the occasion.