Metro India News | amaravati

Andhra Pradesh Housing and Information and Public Relations Minister Kolusu Parthasarathy inaugurated the 'Mega Job Mela' at IIIT Nuziveedu on Friday along with Eluru District Collector K. Vetriselvi. He told Friday that Chief Minister N.Chandrababu Naidu is working towards bringing world-class technology to the state and providing a golden future to the youth by giving top priority to education, employment and employment generation. “In the next 5 years, job opportunities will be provided to 20 lakh youth in the state, and a special industrial policy is being formulated to create an entrepreneur from every household.

He told that like the population census, a 'skill census' is being conducted to take a census of the skills of the youth in each household. “In addition, steps are being taken to ensure that world-class companies establish industries in our state, and steps are being taken to provide skill development training to our youth in the desired field and provide job opportunities in the respective industries.” he said. 

The minister said that skill hubs are being set up in 175 constituencies of the state and the youth are being provided with skill development training in all sectors and job opportunities are being created.

The minister said that skill development and job creation for the youth have been given priority in the 2047 Swarna Andhra Action Plan. He gave few examples of big industries which are proposing to invest in Andhra Pradesh like NTPC , Mittal Steel, 500 compressed biogas units to be setup by Reliance Group, etc. He said that special attention is being paid to creating awareness among the poor about the development and welfare programs being implemented by the central and state governments and ensuring that they take advantage of them. 

She said that the Swarnandhra Action Plan also gives special importance to skill development and creation of job opportunities for the youth. Nuzvidu Sub-Collector Smrana Raj, Triple IT VC Amarendra Kumar, DRDA Project Director Vijayaraju, Skill Development Officer Jitendra Kumar, and others participated in the program. The minister instructed the officials to set up more help desks for them. Later, he met the candidates applying for the job fair and inquired about their pr.

Blurb: District Collector K. Vetriselvi said that 8 skill hubs in the district are providing training in skill development to the youth and providing them with job opportunities.