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Skill Development Minister Dr Sharan Prakash Patil on Wednesday said 9651 of 44,527 candidates who enrolled for the fair were handed offer letters by 598 companies that participated in the mela. Some participants got offers from three companies and were given the option to choose one.
TCS, Infosys, Foxconn, Wistron, HCL Tech, Jio, Mahindra Aerospace Swiggy, Paytm, Quess Corp, Applied Materials, and Cargill India are among the companies that participated in the event.
The job fair was a great success that beat our expectations,” Dr. Patil said. Encouraged by the high degree of conversion of enrolment into offers, Patil has now decided to hold similar large jobs melas in Kalburgi, Belagavi and Mysuru, the major revenue divisional headquarters. Dr Patil hails from Kalburgi.
“We will also set up skill education centres for job aspirants at Koppal in Kalyana Karnataka region and Mysuru. Our department is taking steps to provide jobs to over 25,000 youths who have completed job-oriented courses,” he added.
The melas are part of the Congress party’s broad strategy to address the unemployment issue and get as many unemployed youth placed as Lok Sabha polls are due by May. The grand fair, organised by the Skills Development & Livelihood department, comes almost a month after the government rolled out Yuva Nidhi, a monthly stipend programme for unemployed degree and diploma holders, announced by AICC leader Rahul Gandhi during the assembly election campaign. “Our department is taking steps to provide jobs to over 25,000 youths who have completed job-oriented courses,” Dr Patil said. Karnataka, he added, would start a company on the lines of Kerala government’s Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants Ltd. (ODEPC) to facilitate multi-national companies to find required human resources. “This firm would provide information to those who have completed engineering, diploma, ITI and other job-oriented courses and 49 companies have already shown interest. IBM has come forward to provide training to over 5,000 job aspirants.,” he said. Most of the companies were looking for candidates with a 10th standard or equivalent qualification, whereas 104 companies wanted a graduate engineering degree and 115 firms sought post-graduate qualifications. The BFSI sector dominated the hiring process with 91 companies, followed by 80 companies from the IT-ITES sector, and 74 from the Automotive sector.
The fair – held on Monday and Tuesday – had 86,451 candidates registered, of which 53,915 were men and 32,494 were women. Bengaluru urban had the most number of candidates at 18,644, followed by North Karnataka’s Dharwad district at 5,802. Of the participants, 16,865 have moved on to the next round of interviews, whereas 2,547 were rejected and 15,461 still have no clarity on their employment status. Of all the registered participants, about 20,000 were engineering graduates.
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