Centre has sanctioned six new career counselling centres for the benefit of unemployed youth in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Union minister of state for labour and employment, Bandaru Dattatreya announced here on Tuesday. Both the states will get three counselling centres each.
As per the plan, first counselling centre in Telangana will come up in Osmania University.
Both State governments were asked to send in proposals for the project. The counselling centres will replace the existing system of employment exchanges in the country, he said.
Union government sanctioned 980 counselling centres for all States. Out of this a 100 will be model counselling centres. Counselling centres will work as a common platform using which unemployed youth can meet their future employers. “Unlike employment exchanges, counselling centres will not just be registration offices but places of exchange for ideas between employers and employees,” Mr. Dattatreya said. For the first phase of the project government will release Rs 380 crore.
Attached to the employment exchange, the government will also run a job portal that can be accessed by employers.
“The portal will provide direct access to the employer,” he said, on the sidelines of a meet held in the city to e-inaugurate a new branch of Syndicate bank at Annaram Shariff village.
