Gujarat Chief Minister disburses contract letters to 2,300 youth at industrial job fair at Surat

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Government has decided to create employment opportunity through job placement under apprenticeship schemes, providing gainful employment to the youth as per their talents and trade skills, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said at a job fair at Surat today.

Speaking at the function to mark disbursement of apprentice contract letters to 2,259, he said the success of biennial Vibrant Gujarat Summits has thrown open the doors of investment in the state. Gujarat alone has created one lakh jobs last one year, including 75,000 apprentices as against total 4.50-lakh apprentices in entire India.

Even as India is the world’s most youthful nation with 18-40 age groups comprising 55 per cent of the population, he said that Gujarat resolved to implement Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ and ‘Skill India’ Missions to make India Vishwa Guru.

Rupani said that Surat district has arranged 40 job fairs during the year to appoint 27,900 youth, including 11,000 under apprenticeship schemes. He enumerated the steps the state government has undertaken during the last year, such as change in education, eradicating corruption, new textiles and garment policy. He said that government would spare no stone unturned to nab the accused in the cancelled Lok Rakshak Dal test.

Labour & Employment Minister Dilipkumar Thakor said that government has decided to provide jobs to 3.55-lakh youth as against the target given for 3.00-lakh. Nearly 50,000 are being trained as apprentices in 287 Industrial Training Institutes (it is) in the state.

Others who attended the function included MLAs Vivekbhai Patel, Mukesh Patel, Zankhanaben Patel, Sangitaben Patel, Government’s Additional Chief Secretary for Labour & Employment Vipul Mitra, Dirtector Suprit Gulati, Collector Dhaval Patel and DDO D.K. Parekh.

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