Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Nov 20: Minister of State for Fisheries and Cooperatives, Dr Manohar Lal Sharma inaugurated a 2-day Employment Fair organized by District Employment and Counselling Centre, Kathua at Phinter Ground in Billawar today.
The Minister after inaugurating the Employment Fair visited the stalls and inspected the exhibits of various departments. Stalls drawn from different departments including Agriculture, Horticulture, Sericulture, Floriculture, Fisheries, Industries, Handloom, Cooperatives, and Animal Husbandry, Sheep Husbandry, Rural Dev. Deptt, DRDA, Social Welfare, Health, Education, Labour, JKEDI, Handicraft, Khadi Village Industrial Board, Employment & Counselling Centre and bankers were installed.
The stall of progressive farmer namely Sanjay Kumar remained the attractive stall during the first day of the fair.
MLC Subash Gupta, DDC Kathua, Jitendra K Singh, Deputy Commissioner Excise Mushtaq Ahmed, SSP Kathua, Mohan Lal SDM Billawar Deep Raj and SDPO Basohli Rafiq Manhas were among those present on the occasion.
Dr. Manohar Lal Sharma on the occasion said that youth should avail the benefits of State and Central sponsored employment schemes viz PMEGP, SKEWPY, UDAAN and UMEED. He said Billawar has diverse climatic conditions which is ideal for multi cropping and multi trade farming. He said youth should come forward to adopt bee keeping, fish farming, dairy farming and flower growing besides contemporary crops to get sufficient earning.
He said the purpose of the Employment Fair is to build awareness among unemployed educated youth about the existing Government sponsored schemes implemented by different departments and agencies for establishment of income generating units. He said Employment Deptt is shouldering responsibility to reach out to the unemployed educated youth to provide the benefits of various schemes and make them become self-reliant.
Later, on the concluding day of the Cooperative Week a function was organised to commemorate the occasion. The programme was organized by Cooperative Deptt. in collaboration with the societies of cooperative command area development District Kathua and J&K State Cooperative Union at Dayalachack in Tehsil Hiranagar.
Minister of State for Cooperative, Dr Manohar Lal Sharma was the chief guest on the occasion.
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