Chandigarh: The State of Working India 2023: Social Identities and Labor Market Outcomes report said that although the unemployment rate managed to touch the trough created by the pandemic, it remained as high as 42.3 per cent for graduates under 25 years of age.
More than three lakh youth of the country will get employment under the Super Thirty Rojgar Mission. This mission is to provide employment to those youth who are facing problems for employment due to lack of skills. A Square has come up with this mission. Mission will not only develop the skills of the youth and make them employable within thirty days for just Rs 30, but will also give them a platform through which the youth can get employment.
In a press conference organized at Hotel Mountview, Chandigarh, educationist Ankit Malhotra said that there is no shortage of employment in the country. There is employment but there is a shortage of skilled people for employment. He said that if a youth develops his command only on a foreign language, he will earn seventy to eighty thousand rupees in a month. He said that no special degree is required for this. He said that he himself is an expert in French and before launching this scheme, he had done a trial run on some youth.
He said that during the skill training, he will provide air ticketing training, software training, visa filing practical course, digital marketing training, foreign language training, artificial intelligence as well as stock market training. Especially for the financially challenged children, his plan is to provide training to these children at an amount of Re 1 per day. Some standards have definitely been set for this. Those who have to follow. He said that he has done Masters in French from Punjab University, Chandigarh and has obtained a degree in Foreign Languages from Embassy Private College. Along with this, he has done Diploma in Air Ticketing from Montreal, Canada.
A Square MD Maninder Kaur said that she got the most benefit from the vocational course. It was always her desire to teach as many vocational courses as possible to the youth. She said that the youth in Punjab are getting disoriented. they dream of going abroad, but they probably do not know that they can earn more money in their own country than abroad, provided they have special skills.
