A conference of the Directors of Employment Exchange of the North-Eastern Region held here recently has recommended a number of practical measures to bring about qualitative and quantitative improvement of the employment services in the North-East.
The Conference held under the Presidentship of the Secretary of the NEC Mr P H Trivedi, suggested the setting up of Coaching-Cum-Guidance Centres for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes candidates to promote self employment and extension of employment information services to the rural areas through mobile as well as extension services.
The other suggestions made by the Conference including improvement of Employment Market Information and Vocational Guidance Programme, establishment of vocational rehabilitation centres for physically handicapped persons and strengthening of the Employment Services at various levels.
Mr Trivedi mentioned about the proposal of the North Eastern Council for placing a couple of officers of the rank of Additional and Jt. Director in order to conduct the programme of collection of information and data on employment in the region and to make necessary analysis of the same for assessing the real nature of employment problem. Stressing the need for arrangement of proper training for the officers in the Employment Exchange Directorates, Mr Trivedi also suggested that certain percentage of posts in the State Sectors should be created as apprentice. He also stressed the need for adequate placement of ITI trained candidates to fill the vacancies.
The Director General of Employment and Training, Govt of India Mr S Venkataramani, while addressing the Conference explained the salient features of the recommendations of the Working Group for Improvement of Employment Services and mentioned that the Government of India as well as the NEC could consider extending financial assistance for improvement and modernization of Employment Exchanges in the region so that the Employment Exchanges could be gradually transformed over the next decade into nuclei of manpower oriented Labour Market Information System