HYDERABAD: The Union ministry of labour and employment, in association with the South Central Railway, organised a mega job mela, Mana Kosam, exclusively for the children of serving and retired railway employees at Railway Degree College in Tarnaka in Secunderabad on Sunday. Union minister of state for labour and employment (independent charge) Bandaru Dattatreya, while addressing the gathering of job aspirants and their parents, spoke on the steps being taken by the central government to develop the skills of the youth and provide them with suitable job opportunities.
Dattatreya said National Career Service Centres were set up to ensure that the youth get right job opportunities at the right time by offering them proper guidance, counselling and confidence-building.
“The Union government is strongly committed to making society corruption-free and employment in government service is being offered with utmost transparency,” he claimed and said Mana Kosam would generate more than 5,000 job placements.
Such job melas would be held at other places too, he announced. Earlier, SCR general manager Vinod Kumar Yadav said SCR was one of the best performing Zones as reflected in its concern for the welfare of the serving and retired railway employees. The Mana Kosam job mela saw a registration of around 25,000 job aspirants and another such job mela would be held, he said.
Employees State Insurance Corporation member K Dileep Kumar said 110 companies across several professions including information technology, business process, hospitality and medical care participated in the job mela.