In a bid to create job opportunities for unemployed youths in villages in Srivaikuntam taluk and develop their entrepreneurial skill, a series of training programmes on nine different trades would be organised.
The programmes would be offered through NABARD, Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes, Puthu Vazhvu Thittam and other agencies, Collector M. Ravikumar said here on Monday.
A job mela for youths in Srivaikuntam would be organised at Pope’s College in Sawyerpuram on June 6. Three hundred youths were expected to participate in the job mela. Camps organised in various villages in Srivaikuntam taluk to promote integrity and communal harmony yielded good response. So far 13 villages had been covered through 11 camps and five more villages were yet to be covered, he told reporterd.
The Collector said bus services were restored on nine routes, and buses would take a circuitous route through Srivaikundam, Karungulam, Vasavappapuram and Manakarai and reach the starting point. With installation of CCTV cameras in buses plying through colleges and schools, police personnel would keep a constant vigil to avert any crime, he noted.
He said that 3,228 petitions were received during the jamabandi held at eight taluks in the district. Of them, benefits were ordered on 835 petitions, and 206 petitions were disposed of for various reasons. The remaining 2,187 petitions were pending.
