"Employment exchanges will no longer be functioning as mere employment exchange centres. There are 980 exchanges in the country, out of which 100 will be modernised in the first phase with Rs 380 crore investment this year," the Minister of State for Labour and Employment told reporters.
Dattatreya, speaking on the sidelines of a programme organised by a bank here, said there are four crore people registered with various employment across all the exchanges.
"We have asked all the state governments to give us the proposals. We are giving three centres each to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh," Dattatreya said.
In June this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the NCS portal as part of the Centre's endeavour to modernise all government-run employment exchanges.
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The NCS portal, set up under the National Career Service project, will function as hand-holding agencies for job-seekers.
With a network of career counsellors, the portal will help job-seekers and provide a variety of other services on the NCS portal such as information on skill development courses, apprenticeship and internship among others.