Uri : The Department of Employment and Counseling Centre (DE&CC ) Baramulla in collaboration with the District Administration on Saturday organized an awareness programme on various employment generating schemes at the Govt degree College, Uri .
On the occasion, awareness regarding various self-employment generating schemes and skill development programmes run by Govt of J&K across the state was raised among the partici pants by the officers and officials from various line departments.
The programme started with key note address by SDM Uri Harvinder Singh, IAS in which he stressed that the organisation of such programs are the need of hour to address the issue of unemployment in J&K especially Uri. The speakers urged unemployed youth to come forward and avail benefits under various schemes being implemented by line departments.
The participants were informed that the unemployed youth should register themselves and submit their choice of business unit they are interested in with respective BDO offices . The district Employment and Counseling Center will scrutinize and filter the applications and forward the same to various depart ments.
During the program, DE&CC resource persons apprised the students of GDC Uri about the various skill development schemes launched by Govt. of India. The students also made aware about the training schemes and financial support that the government is providing to trainees and future entrepreneurs. Among others, the program was attended by all line departments , Principal GDC Uri, Vice Principal GDC Uri , BDO Uri , BDO Boniyar , BDO Paranpilla , BDO Bijhama and a large number of unemployed educated youth.
The programme concluded with word of thanks by Assistant Director, Employment Baeramull.
