Employability enhancement receiving fillip: Omar

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said enhancement of employability of youth through wide-ranging skills development programmes is receiving considerable fillip to expand job market reach for them.

”We have focused on tackling unemployment crisis through a multi-pronged strategy where under raising of employability of youth is on priority,” he said, adding that besides creating maximum possible jobs in government sector, endeavours are on to upgrade the skills of youth ensuring their absorption in open market.
Mr Abdullah said more than 50 ITIs and 30 Polytechnic Collages have been sanctioned to give new dimension to the skill development programme and train the youth of Jammu and Kashmir in modern trades and technology opening venues of substantial employment for them in the industrial and other sectors.
Speaking to various deputations at weekly Public Mulakat here, the Chief Minister said his government has also sanctioned 23 new Degree Colleges where modern subjects would be made part of the curricula for widening the job spectrum for the youth.
”While my government is concentrating on consolidation in health and education sectors, it is paying due attention for universalising medicare and educational facilities in the state.
”Our endeavour is to make people across the state accessible to these facilities,” he said, adding that the placement of proper faculties and necessary paraphernalia in institutions is also on priority list.
Mr Abdullah said imparting technical education to youth through a network of industrial training institutes and polytechnics is imperative to ensure their job security and provide them a level playing field to prove their mettle and achieve new highs in the field of science and technology.
He asked the youth to get best advantage of the packages and programmes launched by his government for large scale skills development in the state.
The Chief Minister said his government flags unemployment crisis as one of the top most concerns and devotes fullest attention to defuse it through various measures.
He said new trends in the education are being introduced and modern concepts nurtured to produce a educated generation of young educated persons capable of competing at all levels and making their mark in the open job market.