Job fair held at CICU Complex, Ludhiana

Ludhiana, May 15, 2018: Upkar Singh Ahuja, President, CICU welcomed the Companies for their participation in the Job fair to recruit the candidates. He told that more than 73 companies from the State of Punjab deputed their senior officials for conducting the interviews for recruitment of youths in different trades. More than 3800 candidates from various cities and villages visited the venue of Fair seeking placements. He further narrated that 1680 Candidates comprising Welder, Fitter, turner, Computer Operator, machinist etc has been recruited by the Companies.

Pankaj Sharma, General Secretary, CICU assured that those candidates who could not be given offer letters on the spot, their Resumes would be circulated to CICU Member Industries and such candidate will be called by the companies directly for placements. He also revealed that CICU will continue to work for generating employment opportunities for Punjabi youths as it will not only provide jobs to the unemployed youngsters, but will also improve their living standards, enhance the purchasing capacity, lead to local manpower in the Industries & will lead to improvement in productivity and quality.

The job fair was inaugurated by Charanjit Singh Channi, Minister of Technical Education & Industrial Trailing Punjab, M.P Singh, I.A.S., Financial Commissioner Taxation, Daljit Kaur Sidhu, Additional Director, Department of Technical Education & Industrial Training, Punjab.

Meanwhile, another report reads:
Aiming to train and make the youths fully 'skilled', Technical Education, Industrial Training, Employment Generation, Science and Technology Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday said that Punjab government will open new skill development centres in the state for each industry so that they could not face any kind of problem in getting employment and good packages in Punjab.

Channi said this while inaugurating a mega job fair organized by Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU). In the job fair, 73 business houses from various parts of the state took part and 3800 youths got registered them for several kinds of trades in which 1680 got appointment letters. The trades include Welder, Fitter, Electrician, Computer Operator, Sales Associates, Turner, Accountants, and others.

These Skill Development Centres will offer free training to the youths and will make them fully 'expertise' in the various trades so that they can get good packages from the industries once they complete their training, added minister.

The minister told that soon, the technical education department is also going to upgrade the curriculum of Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) to meet the present needs of the industry in the state.

He targeted the previous SAD-BJP government for giving no attention towards the jobs creation in the state and claimed they made just false promises but Punjab government led by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has been making strenuous efforts to provide employment to the youths. He also stated during previous years, 1.62 lakh jobs were provided to the youths.

He appreciated CICU for holding a mega job fair and invited other industry associations to come forward and hold job fairs for which he and his department will give fulsome support.

The minister also announced a grant of Rs 5 lakh for CICU from his own discretionary funds.

Technical Education and Industrial Training's Additional Chief Secretary MP Singh, Additional Director Daljit Kaur, CICU president Upkar Singh Ahuja also addressed the gathering. Deputy Director Damandeep Kaur was also present.

On the occasion, CICU representatives also honoured the minister.