Uttar Pradesh has witnessed long queues of youth waiting to register themselves at employment exchanges to avail of the doles for the unemployed handed out by the Samajwadi Party government. The queues are back again, but with a difference: This time they are not for the doles, but jobs.
As many as 7,000 youths armed with ITI diplomas from the six districts under Lucknow division queued up at the Aliganj ITI compound this week trying to be one of the 1,200 who would land up a job at the Rozgar Mela organised by the state government and the industry body, CII. Tata Motors, Hero MotoCorp, L&T, Shubham Goldie Masale, Eldeco Housing and Industries, Mahakaleshwar Smile Parks Enterprises, Yash Papers and PTC Industries were the eight companies that participated in the recruitment drive.
While talking to FE, most of them expressed the desire to have a proper job than to be paid an allowance.
Dinesh Kumar Yadav of Jaunpur, who has applied for the vacancy of an electrician with Mahakaleshwar Smile Parks, said, ?A job gives me and my family the self respect and money to lead a life with dignity while a dole is just pocket money to tide over the difficult time till a job.?
UP labour & employment minister Waqar Ahmad Shah praised the CII?s ability to bring in industry leaders for recruitment and apprenticeship opportunities for the state?s youths and hoped such meets would be organised at regular intervals.
Jayant Krishna, co-chairman, CII Northern Region?s Special Task Force on Skill & Education and regional head of Tata Consultancy Services said CII would do everything possible to facilitate the process of UP reaping the rich demographic dividend through skill development and meaningful employment opportunities. He also added that this Rozgar Mela was organised in order to establish an effective link between industry and the talent pool.
Speaking about the huge opportunities and possibilities for both the recruiters as well as job hunters in the state, L&T Construction wing?s HR executive Shubham Pratap Singh said with construction and automobile business seeing an upswing companies are in need of skilled and semi-skilled labour to fill vacancies of motor mechanics, diesel mechanics, electricians, masons, fitters, plumbers, painters, carpenters, bar benders, automobile mechanics and surveyors. ?The turnout here today is more than what we had expected and our recruitment is not just limited to our work in UP but for the entire country,? he said.