AMRITSAR: A Dubai-based industrialist has offered the Punjab govt for facilitating foreign direct investment (FDI) into the state especially from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to set up industries and create job opportunities for the Punjabi youth who spend lakhs of rupees and often fall prey to the dubious agents for getting their dream jobs.
Joginder Singh Salaria, founder of Dubai-based PCT Humanity (Pehal Charitable Trust-Humanity) informed that he felt pity on seeing the struggle of parents of Punjabi youth who did everything in their hands including selling their houses, liquidating their fixed deposits, and even borrowing money on huge interests, only to send their children to UAE for their dream jobs.
Claiming that PCT-Humanity helps on an average a thousand Punjabi youth in getting jobs in UAE every year, Joginder said “The first priority of the Punjabi youth is to move to Canada, Australia, US, UK or in the European nations for which their parents shell out anything around Rs 25 to Rs 30 lakh and those who can’t afford they prefer to spend anything around Rs 1.5 to Rs 2 lakh for a job in UAE” .
He said there were several examples of Punjabi educated youth doing manual jobs after failing to get jobs in European destinations. “Many of such youth are here working as masons, plumbers, fitters, etc.” he added.
“We, the philanthropist groups here in UAE were of the view that AAP govt would set up industries in Punjab to stop youth from going abroad and being exploited but it didn’t happen since AAP govt has not made any such announcment, so we decided to extend the offer to it to help it in attracting FDI into the state for setting up industries so that youth could get jobs at home,” said Joginder.
He informed that last month he led a delegation of UAE industrialists to Jammu and Kashmir where several memorandum of understandings (MoU) were signed in the field of tourism, medical, information technology industry, and in near future JKUT would have industrial houses from the investment from UAE and would be offering jobs to the local youth.
“We wish to lead a similar delegation to Punjab and help the govt to attract FDI and set up industries there. We have already sent our offer to Punjab govt but we are still waiting to hear from them,” said Joginder.
