CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday digitally laid the foundation stone of permanent camp of Centre for Training and Employment of Punjab Youth (C-Pyte) at Asal Uttar in Tarn Taran district to commemorate the bravery of Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid PVC and to provide training to the youth for selection in military and paramilitary forces.
The CM also inaugurated the seventh state-level Mega Rozgar Mela with a target to fill 2.5 lakh vacancies across Punjab and launched free online coaching for government recruitment exams apart from rolling out the ‘Mera Kaam Mera Maan’ scheme to provide employment assistance allowance Rs 2,500 per month to workers and wards of workers registered under Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board.
Speaking on the occasion, Amarinder said a new Armed Forces Preparatory Institute Sardar Bahadur Amin Chand Soni Armed Forces Preparatory Institute is being established at Bajwara, Hoshiarpur, at a cost of Rs 26.96 crores for preparing youth of the state to compete and qualify in CDSE/AFCAT.
Regarding employment facilitation, the chief minister said that employment generation, skill development and training department over the past four years has been catering to an average of 1200 candidates daily. A job helpline centre has been established as ‘one stop platform’ to answer queries regarding government and private placement opportunities, career counselling, self-employment ventures, foreign study and placement counselling and skill development training. For persons with disabilities, the mission administers special training programmes that have trained 430 and placed 90 candidates.
During the first wave of Covid, the department of employment generation, skill development and training department organised 6th state-level Mega Rozgar Mela and Mega Self-Employment Mela through virtual/physical means in all districts of Punjab that facilitated 2,09,124 candidates (91,360 employment and 1,17,764 self- employment), added the chief minister.
Amarinder said September 9, 2021, marks the 56-year anniversary of Battle of Asal Uttar, one of the largest tank battles fought during Indo-Pak War of 1965 which led to victory due to the fierce battle put up by Army, its outstanding valour and better strategy. The battle also witnessed the personal bravery of Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid, 4th Grenadiers, who was honoured posthumously with the Param Vir Chakra for knocking out several enemy tanks with a recoilless gun, reminisced the chief minister.
