17,000 jobs to be offered to Ludhiana district youth at fair

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 18

Deputy Commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma on Wednesday said the district administration would hold the seventh state-level job fair from September 9 to 17 under the Ghar-Ghar Rozgaar Mission of the Punjab Government. He said 17,000 jobs will be offered to the youth of Ludhiana.

He said four job fairs would be held virtually and physically in the separate locations of the district. He said on September 9, first fair would be organised on the Government ITI Gill road, second on September 13 at the Gulzar Group of Institutes, Khanna, third on September 15 at SRS Government Polytechnic College for Girls and last fair on September 17 at CICU Focal Point. The Deputy Commissioner said the fairs would be held from 10 am to 4 pm.

He said leading companies would be visiting these fairs to provide jobs to the unemployed youth. He said all unemployed youth who have done matriculation, 10+2, ITI, diploma, graduation or postgraduation must participate in the job fairs. He called upon the youth to register themselves on www.pgrkam.com for jobs.

In a unique step aimed at helping the drug addicts to lead a normal life by bringing them into the mainstream, the district administration on Wednesday organised a job fair in the office of the District Bureau of Employment & Enterprises (DBEE) for the youth undergoing treatment at local Outpatient Opioid Assisted Treatment (OOAT) centres under the Mission Red Sky.

Punjab Backward Classes Land Development and Finance Corporation (Backfinco) vice-chairman Mohammad Gulab inaugurated the job fair in which 142 addicts under treatment participated, out of which 109 were selected by nine companies.

Gulab said the Punjab Government has launched the Mission Red sky for the rehabilitation of drug abuse victims through skilling and employment.

109 drug addicts under treatment get jobs

In a unique step aimed at helping drug addicts to lead a normal life by bringing them into the mainstream, the administration on Wednesday organised a job fair in the office of the District Bureau of Employment & Enterprises for the youth undergoing treatment at local Outpatient Opioid Assisted Treatment centres under the Mission Red Sky.

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