ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki reviewed his ambitious scheme of opening employment avenues for youths, with officials of Employment Generation and Skill Development Councils, in the backdrop of experiences gained in the last six months.
Taking into account the hurdles experienced in providing gainful employment to jobless youths, Tuki during a meeting yesterday, directed modification in the government's strategy to ensure that the success rate was close to 100 per cent, official sources said in Itanagar today.
Accordingly, a detailed programme has been chalked out to train about 8000 youths in the current financial year.
As per feedback received from training institutes, several candidates dropped out at the last moment to pursue further studies while some dropped out during training due to various reasons.
Mr Tuki felt that a different and student specific strategy had to be incorporated by the government to make the novel programme a success.
Earlier, the state government had embarked upon the ambitious skill development programme to provide employment opportunity to youths, particularly matriculates and school and college drop outs.
A first of its kind anywhere in the country, Job cum Skill Development Selection Rally was organised from August 30 to September 1 last year at Indira Gandhi Park in state capital which was attended by more than 12,210 youths from different parts of the state.
Thirty-three reputed Vocational Training Providers (VTPs) from different parts of the country participated in the Job Fair to sensitise, counsel and select candidates for different training programmes.
In the last six months, 2,625 youths have been deputed for training out of which 1, 073 have completed their training. Altogether 1038 youths have been offered placement, sources said.
