| Manohar inaugurates 2-days Employment Fair at Phinter, Billawar | | | Early Times Report
Kathua, Nov 20: Minister of State for Fisheries and Cooperatives, Dr Manohar Lal Sharma inaugurated a 2-day Employment Fair organized by District Employment and Counselling Centre, Kathua here at Phinter Ground in Billawar today.
The Minister after inaugurating the employment fair visited the stalls and inspected the exhibits of various departments. Stalls drawn from different departments including Agriculture, Horticulture, Sericulture, Floriculture, Fisheries, Industries, Handloom, Cooperatives, and Animal husbandry, Sheep Husbandry, Rural Dev. Deptt, DRDA, Social Welfare, Health, education, labour, JKEDI, Handicraft, Khadi Village Industrial Board, Employment & Counselling Centre and bankers were installed.
The stall of progressive farmer namely Sanjay Kumar remained the attractive stall during the first day of the fair.
Member Parliament ChLal Singh, MLC Subash Gupta, DDC Kathua, Jitendra K Singh, Deputy Commissioner Excise Mushtaq Ahmed, SSP Kathua, Mohan Lal SDM Billawar Deep Raj, SDPO Basohli Rafiq Manhas were among the present on the occasion. Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma on the occasion said that Youth shoud avail the benefits of state and central sponsored employment schemes viz PMEGP, SKEWPY, UDAAN and UMEED. He said Billawar has diverse climatic conditions which is ideal for multi cropping and multi trade farming. He said youth should come forward to adopt bee keeping, fish farming, dairy farming and flower growing besides contemporary crops to get sufficient earning.
He said the purpose of the Employment Fair is build awareness among unemployed educated youth about the existing government sponsored schemes implemented by different departments and agencies for establishment of income generating units. He said employment deptt is shouldering responsibility to reach out to the unemployed educated youth to provide the benefits of various schemes and make them become self-reliant.
MP Ch Lal Singh while speaking on the occasion said that Government of India has formulated scheme for skill development of the youth by sponsoring their pursuit of professional education. He said PRI's bear responsibility to make aware the people about the schemes / programmes of the government. He added that government of India is providing agricultural implements, high quality seeds and fertilizers at subsidized rates to raise the socio economic status of the farmers.
MLC Subash Gupta while speaking on the occasion appealed the youth to come forward and avail the benefit of various self employed scheme to become self-reliant.
Leaflets, literature and pamphlets of schemes and programmes of different departments were distributed among the visitors in the fair. |
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