Excelsior Correspondent
VIJAYPUR, Apr 1: National Conference senior State Vice President and former Minister, Surjeet Singh Slathia today expressed concern over burgeoning unemployment, saying that initiatives taken a few years ago with regard to enhancing employability have been diluted.
“The main plank of the employability imitative was to encourage talented and enterprising youth to launch their own enterprises to boost productivity and to generate jobs for others”, Slathia said while inaugurating Elite Engg Industries, a private industrial unit, at Canal Road Bari Brahmana in Samba district this afternoon.
“The entrepreneurship development holds key to boost productivity besides generating avenues for skilled and unskilled work force”, Slathia said.
He gave an overview of the various other measures taken by the previous Government to encourage entrepreneurship among youth so that they become employers rather than employees. He said this initiative ought to have been taken forward with similar zeal without playing politics
“Small and modest beginning can lead to big success, given the hard work and sincerity of purpose in carrying forward any avocation”, he said and congratulated the young entrepreneur for his initiative. He hoped that the initiative will not only motivate others but also generate avenues of jobs in the area.
The former Minister, who was the chief guest, exuded confidence that self-employment ventures would go a long way in meeting the challenge of unemployment.
Prominent among those present on the occasion included former Chairman Muncipal Corporation Bari Brahmana Raman Gupta, NC Distt Vice President Vijay Singh, Block President Bhagwan Singh, former Sarpanches Sadiq Hussain, Karam Chand, Jagdish Singh, Swaran Singh, Gulab Hussain, Angrez Singh and Balwant Singh.
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