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Wednesday, Aug 04, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

New job schemes announced

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, AUG. 3. The Government has announced its plan to establish an `employment facilitation board' to provide increased number of jobs, both in the public and private sectors, to the unemployed youth in the State and come out with some new schemes to achieve the goal.

The board will be formed with the Finance and Labour Ministers as Chairman and Vice-Chairman and the Principal Secretary and the Commissioner, Labour Department, as Secretary and Convener respectively. Vested with statutory powers, the board will find vacancies wherever available in the sectors and absorb `idle hands' in them by a system to be evolved. It would oversee training programmes, where required, to place the right man at the right place. The board will also take care of all the job schemes, existing and new, the Labour Minister, G. Vinod, announced at a press conference here today.

The most striking of the new schemes were `Ajay', under which the Government would act as an agency to send people for overseas employment, including the Gulf, and `Bhavishyathu', through which coaching in TOEFL, GRE and GMAT would be offered from September 10 in Hyderabad, Tirupati, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada on the lines of private institutions.

To check fake agencies

Under Ajay, the Government would take the full responsibility not only to provide jobs, if available, but also to ensure payment of salaries and safety to travel documents, thereby ending the menace of fake agencies playing havoc on the gullible people eager for Gulf jobs. The `Bhavishyathu' would offer coaching for three months at Rs. 2,000 compared to Rs. 7,000-9,000 charged by private institutions.

Mr. Vinod disclosed the Government plan to do away with the requirement by those who enrolled themselves at employment exchanges to renew their candidature. A representation was made to the Union Government for this and "we go ahead" once a green signal came in. For now, 26 lakh candidates were on the live registers of these exchanges.

`Career-on-wheels'

The third scheme would be `career-on-wheels' covering daily rail commuters between two cities under which subjects such as personnel management, law and English would be taught on the moving train by special teachers for upgrading of skills.

The South Central Railway agreed to provide coaches with special facilities such as speakers, RPF police and the like. On a pilot basis, it was implemented on the Vijayawada-Gudivada route and arrangements were under way to extend this to the Anakapalli-Visakhapatnam and Mahabubnagar-Hyderabad routes which were identified under a survey.

There were some other schemes for women, those preparing for competitive exams, children of fishermen, village youth and unskilled persons.

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