Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Jan 14: Two days Employment cum Awareness Fair has been inaugurated by District Development Commissioner, Samba, Mubarak Singh.
The Fair was organised by District Employment and Counselling Centre, Samba.
All the departments dealing with employment generation schemes and the financial institutions participated in the fair, displayed their products/ schemes in the stalls. The experts of different departments were also available at the fair to guide the unemployed youth for setting up their own income generating units.
About 30 stalls were set up by different departments and banks to provide information to the unemployed youth regarding various schemes.
Addressing the Youth, District Development Commissioner, Samba asked them to take optimum benefit of Sher-i-Kashmir Employment and Welfare Programme for Youth (SKEWPY), which is an innovative employment generation scheme devised by the Coalition Government to address the un- employment problems in the State.
The scheme on one hand envisages to non-refundable fund up to 30% of the project cost for setting up of a venture, besides Voluntary Service Allowance (VSA) to the un-employed educated youth. He said this unique self employment scheme has been acknowledged at the national level and some States of the country are also keen to introduce it for tackling their un-employment problems.
He called for a change in the mind set of the un-employed youth towards entrepreneurship to become job providers instead of job seekers. He said effective implementation of various self employment programmes under Central and State sectors was the key to address the challenge of un-employment and to enable youth to earn a dignified livelihood.
Earlier, Assistant Director, district employment and counselling centre, Samba, presented a resume of activities of the District employment and Counselling Centre Samba.
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