Lucknow, May 24 (FN Agency) The Uttar Pradesh government will provide employment to over 26,000 youths in a week through ‘Mega Job Fairs’. Under Mission Rozgar, mega job fairs are held in 14 divisional headquarters of Uttar Pradesh from May 23. Over 26,000 youths will get employment through these job fairs. In the job fairs being organised in urban and rural areas, youths having a technical education background and otherwise will be provided job placements. More than 315 companies are invited to employment fairs and their representatives will provide employment opportunities to jobless youth in these fairs.
In the job fair organised in Gorakhpur on Monday, as many as 1,406 candidates were provided employment by around 24 companies including prominent ones like L&T and Ashok Leyland. The Job Fairs will be held till May 30 at various locations in the state. The objective of such employment fairs is to provide a platform to communicate between the employers and the youths. Through such fairs skilled youth, local youth, children of farmers will get employment opportunities in a hassle free manner. The state government is also mulling to make the ‘family card’ of each family in the state to fulfil its commitment of giving employment or self-employment opportunities to at least one person in every family in the next five years.