Facilitating jobs for youth; 712 employed at mela

From the 1,700 applications received, upto 712 youth have been employed today and have got offer letters,” said G Vijaya Laxmi, project director of Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA).

The project director was speaking after the job mela, which was jointly organised by MEPMA and Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) at Hari Hara Kala Bhavan in Secunderabad on Tuesday.

The mela was organised as part of the ‘100 Days Action Plan’ to provide employment and training opportunities to educated unemployed youth in Hyderabad and Rangareddy districts.

The job fair was launched by Ch Malla Reddy. More than 40 companies participated with their HR experts to recruit eligible applicants in fields like information technology, technical, non-technical, pharma, sales and marketing. The posts covered salary ranging from Rs 8,000 to Rs 30,000 per month on the bases on qualification and skills.

Ch Malla Reddy said, “Educated youth are the promising citizens of tomorrow. I appeal to girls and women to take a lead role in securing employment in large numbers, which is the need of the hour for the country’s economic development and its prosperity.”

L Vandana Kumar, additional mission director, MEPMA, said, “We propose to provided 2,000 placements in job mela and such shows will be conducted shortly in all the 10 Telangana districts to provide maximum employment to the educated youth.”