“Our
Country has highest youth Population in the world and every youth want jobs.
Coming generations will not forgive us if urgent steps are not taken in the
direction of employment generation”. These views were expressed by Shri Santosh
Kumar Gangwar, Union Minister of State (I/C) for Labour & Employment, while
addressing the experts in a brain storming session on employment generation
strategies organized by VV Giri National Labour Institute (VVGNLI) in Noida
today. He said our Ministry do not directly creates employment but creates
suitable environment to facilitate employers and employees. He further added
that our government and Ministry are moving in right direction on the path to
skill development and employment generation. He also referred to the historic
decision of Demonetisation which has yielded lot of good results during the
last one year. Shri Gangwar said beneficiaries of EPFO and ESIC have increased
to one crore in the last one year. At the occasion Shri Gangwar also released
four publications published by VVGNLI and inaugurated the renovated seminar
block of the institute.
Secretary,
Ministry of Labour and Employment, Smt. M. Sathiyavathy said that 10 million
youngsters are added every year in the race to search a job. Unfortunately, many
youngsters are lacking skill to get a job in the market. She added that
government is constantly trying to fill up this gap. About 1.17 crore youth
have been trained in various skills in recent past and 920 job fairs were organized
to get these youths placed in industries and institutions. Referring to the
important legislation of 26 weeks of maternity leave to pregnant lady workers,
she said that many employers are not willing to give this paid leave of 26
weeks. Experts should suggest remedies regarding this also, she added.
Director
General, VVGNLI, Dr. H. Srinivas welcomed experts from ILO, NITI Ayog, University
of Delhi, Institute of Human Development, Ministry of agriculture and WCD and
other institutions and expressed the hope that some fruitful, practical
suggestions will come from the exercise and can be handed over to Ministry of
Labour and Employment for further consideration and implementation.
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