(News) 10,000 youths in Bundelkhand to get jobs in rural schemes

10,000 youths in Bundelkhand to get jobs in rural schemes

To open up job avenues for the youths of Bundelkhand region, State Minister for Rural Development Daddu Prasad has asked his department to take the educated rural youth on board in the technical structure of schemes like Swarnjayanti Grameen Swarozgar Yojna (SGSY) and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS).

The department has also been asked to train the youth in tasks pertaining to the monitoring and implementation of these schemes.

The decision is an extension of Chief Minister Mayawati’s announcement made in Jhansi on January 29, 2008, seeking the provision of vocational training to the unskilled educated youth throughout the state to make them job-ready.

With nearly 10,000 youths completing various training programmes, the government is now looking at enrolling them under the said schemes. “After the chief minister announced that unemployed youths will be turned into skilled labourers, we started vocational training programmes, with Bundelkhand being our focus area. Now, we have over 10,000 youngsters who have received training that enable us to employ them in schemes like SGSY and MNREGS.”

Adding that jobs like rozgar mate and rozgar sewaks under MNREGS have now been opened for these skilled youngsters, Prasad said: “The rozgar mates and rozgar sewaks form an important part of the implementation of MNREGS.

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Courtesy: Indianexpress.com