Asks youth to avail benefits of self-employment schemes
KUPWARA, JULY 28: The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kupwara, Ayushi Sudan(IAS) on Friday urged the unemployed youth of the district to take advantage of Government’s self-employment schemes in the district and start your own initiatives so that unemployment is addressed.
The Deputy Commisioner Kupwara, who was Chief guest of the ocasion was addressing a Certificate Distribution Ceremony at Town Hall Kupwara organised by a Delhi based NGO ” REACHA” in collaboration with 41 RR of Indian Army.
The Deputy Commisioner while referring to PMEGP, Mudra, HADP, Himayat and other employment generation schemes said that there are so many government schemes which are targeting unemployed youth.
The Deputy Commisioner while congratulating the the trainees for completing 45 days training in Sales and Marketing said that trainees should take benefit from different employment generation schemes and start their own initiatives and employment generation units so that they can provide employment to others.
DC advised the trainees to get full information of these schemes and spread the this awareness among your friends and colleagues.
DC said that Government is always at the back of unemployed youth to facilitate them and the need of the hour is to follow the guidelines given by the Government from time to time for establishment of self-employment units.
DC appreciated the agencies which provided the skill training to the girl trainees and said that the skill training will help in women empowerment.
Deputy Commisioner took part in certificate distribution ceremony where certificates were distributed among 60 Youth (Male and Female ).
DC later held an interaction with trainees and asked them to be productive and contribute for society as they have training and talent.
On the ocasion project implementation team of NGO claimed that they have provided training to 180 unemployed youth in retail and out of them 80 trainees have provided employment in private sector. Similarly in Master Chef course of hospitality 40 youth have been trained and 33 have been successfully placed in different companies.
Commanding officer 41 RR appreciated the efforts of district adminstration for taking Kupwara district to new heights of development.
Commanding Officer 41 RR, Col. Naval Gatti, Tehsildar Trehgam, Mudasser Sikander,District Nodal Officer- EDi Kupwara, Ishfaq Ahmad Mir; Senior Advisor to RICHA, Azad Naqashbandi and other concerned officers were present at the occasion..
