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Training for economically weak jobseekers

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Joint effort by School Education Department and District Employment Exchange

TIPS ON TRAINING: The former Vice-Principal of St. Joseph's College G. Balakrishnan addressing the meeting in Tiruchi on Monday. — Photo: R. Ashok

TIRUCHI: The School Education Department and the District Employment Exchange will together offer training to economically backward jobseekers holding Plus Two qualification.

The training is aimed at making them physically and mentally fit for uniformed services through weekend trainings at five centres.

In anticipation of large-scale openings in uniformed services, the training will be imparted at Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School, Puthur, Government High School, Lalgudi; St. Andrews Higher Secondary School, Manapparai; Boys' Government Higher Secondary School, Musiri, and Zamindar Boys' Higher Secondary School, Thuraiyur.

Starting January 21, service-minded schoolteachers will guide several hundreds of prospective candidates though the training will prepare them to face other competitive examinations as well, according to P. Suresh Kumar, Assistant Director, District Employment Exchange.

Inaugurating an orientation programme at the District Employment Exchange here on Monday for a group of schoolteachers, the Chief Educational Officer R. Muthukrishnan requested them to be agents of change by harnessing human resource potential.

The former Vice-Principal of St. Joseph's College G. Balakrishnan and The Additional Superintendent of Police, S. Santhi, also spoke.

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