By Our Reporter
SHILLONG: With an objective to solve the unemployment problem in the State, the State Government is contemplating to start its own “placement-link” with reputed companies of the country targeting placement opportunities for more than 5000 youths of the State.
“The State Government is contemplating to create its own link with reputed companies to generate employment opportunities for the thousand of employment youth,” Community and Rural Development principal secretary KN Kumar said while addressing the graduation day of the IL&FS Institute of Skills at Dhankheti on Friday.
Informing that the Government has already floated bids in this regard, Kumar informed that they have received overwhelming response from the reputed companies who have also participated in the bid.
According to him, the Government so far has trained more than five thousand youths even as given them placement in several reputed companies as soon as they completed their training.
Twenty-one boys and nineteen girls of the first batch successfully completed the 252 hours training on Hospitality Trade – ‘Certificate program for F&B Services’ in the IL&FS Institute. The training was sponsored by the Directorate of tourism and specialized training on hospitality domain, special exposure to training on communicative English, IT and soft skills were also imparted.
The IL&FS Institute of Skills has so far given placement to 1100 out of 1400 youths the institute trained in the eight centres in Meghalaya that are located in Shillong (East Khasi), Khliehriat (East Jaintia), Barapani, Umsning (Ri Bhoi) and Rongjeng, Williamnagar and Lumrangpara in Garo Hills.
