KATHUA, JANUARY 06: District Development Commissioner Kathua, Rahul Pandey today convened a meeting of concerned officers to review the progress achieved under self employment Schemes being implemented in the district. During the meeting, the officers briefed the DC about the status of coverage of beneficiaries under the self employment schemes of their departments. At the outset, the DC took detailed review of physical progress made with respect to self employment generation in the district by different departments viz Employment, Horticulture, Agriculture, Fisheries, Floriculture, Handicraft, Handloom, DUDA, NRLM, SC/OBC Dev. Board and Banks. The Deputy Commissioner exhorted the officers of stakeholder departments to lay focus on enhancing skills of the job seekers in line with the person-job fit model so that maximum youth could get employed as per their skill sets. He called for extending adequate hand-holding to unemployed youth to enable them to avail benefits of tailor made self employment schemes. He also directed the banks to facilitate the processing of self-employment cases on priority. The DC exhorted upon the stakeholder departments to hold Panchayat wise camps through active participation of PRIs to aware the unemployed youth of the district about the employment generation schemes and avenues. The meeting was attended by CPO Uttam Singh, GM DIC, ACD and other concerned.
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