Tuesday, June 05, 2007

AP Government to launch website for job hunters

The State government will soon launch a new website for job hunters displaying vacancies in industry and training available in various institutes. The list of vacancies will be updated weekly.

An employment generation board with Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy as chairman and the chief secretary as vicechairman will also be estab lished. The board will have secretaries of various departments as its members.

The Chief Minister, who presided over a meeting on the employment generation attended by government and private industry representatives, set a target of creating one million jobs for the next two years and asked for coordination of the industry and various departments to achieve the target with support of training institutions and professional colleges.

Towards this goal, the Chief Minister sanctioned Rs 20 crores for training and Rs 10 crores for modernisation of training institutes and professional colleges, particularly in rural areas which are in a mess.

There are 86 government and 460 private ITIs in the State.

The Chief Minister wanted a focused approach and an umbrella for coordination between different departments such as labour and employment, technical education, industry, textiles and information technology.

Lack of coordination between various departments and industry also cropped up at the meeting.

The Chief Minister was informed that there were 217 industrial estates and 1.48 lakh small scale industries, most of them around Hyderabad which have a job potential for 2.8 lakh people.

The Chief Minister agreed to allow the industry professionals to take up special coaching in the professional institutions, both government and private to help students to gain professional knowledge.

The information technology and communications department in collaboration with industry and other stake holders aims to impart training for two lakh graduate students belonging to technical and other streams this financial year and another three lakh students next financial year.

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