Indian Tribal News Service
Nagpur/New Delhi
The last day of 2021 on Friday set the stage for a new dawn in 2022 for 300 tribal youths. In Naxal-affected Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, they provided appointment letters for employment. In sectors like hospitality and automobile at the job fair held by the district police on Friday.
The fair was the Gadchiroli district police’s initiative to train tribal youths and create employment opportunities for them.
Similarly, news agency PTI quoted Gadchiroli SP Ankit Goyal as saying, “As many as 300 candidates from the tribal region of the district got appointment letters in the job fair. These candidates would be employed in different sectors, like hospitality, automobile, plumbing and welding.”
A total of 101 male/female candidates, who had received training in two/four wheeler repair, in making pickles, papad and fast-food items given kits to start their own businesses.
Besides, 95 other male/female candidates, given training in vegetable cultivation, received certificates in the programme on Thursday, he said.
Moreover, from the beginning of 2021, the Gadchiroli police had initiated various welfare programmes for the tribal youths from remote villages. In the region in order to help generate jobs and create self-employment opportunities for them, Goyal added.
The police department with its partners imparted training and created job or self-employment opportunities for 70 candidates. Field of beauty parlour, 60 in fisheries, 293 in poultry, 35 in tailoring, 35 in photography, 114 in vegetable cultivation, 235 in two/four wheeler repair, 254 in hospitality, 196 in automobile training, 1,143 nursing attendants and other sectors, he said.
Pratham Education Foundation, BOI Star and Krishi Tantragyan Vyavasthapan (Atma) joined hands with the police in the initiative. Read more about The Indian Tribal News on our website.
