With Assembly polls just a few months away, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh has roped in a private talent management company to shore up job prospects and impart necessary skills to youths.
The Opposition Congress has, however, dubbed the move as an "eyewash" aimed at "misleading" youths in the time of elections which are due by the year-end.
Madhya Pradesh has created an average of 17,600 jobs every year in the past 13 years of the BJP rule (2004-2017), according to an official data presented in the Assembly during the budget session.
Now, a private player has been entrusted with the task of scouting employment opportunities in the non-government sector and enhancing job-getting skills of the state's unemployed.
Speaking to PTI, Madhya Pradesh State Skill Development and Employment Generation Board chairman Hemant Vijayrao Deshmukh said, "In a bid to generate more jobs for youths, the state government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Pune-based Yashasvi Academy for Talent Management Pvt Ltd.
"This company would turn the employment exchanges in 15 districts into placement centres under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode."
"In the recent budget session, the government admitted that unemployment has gone up by 16.4 per cent."
"Where are two crore jobs that the BJP had promised. Youths are under depression due to lack of jobs."
He said, "We have set a target of facilitating jobs for one lakh youths. Apart from making job opportunities available in the private sector, the company would also impart skills in writing curriculum vitae (CV) besides working for personality development of unemployed youths."
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