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SWAMI VIVEKANAND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT WEEK

For the first time in India, Gujarat celebrated Swami Vivekanand Youth Employment Week

from 9th

to 15th

April 2012 by offering Employment letters to 65000 youths during this week . This

Job Fair Week was unique in the country because of the proactive role of the State Government

machinery i.e. Directorate of Employment and Training in collecting data of immediate requirement

of skilled manpower in private sector industries and carried out campaign to make this information

reach the employable youth of the state in those industries.

Many states including Gujarat keep organizing job fairs as a onetime event every year where

the stakeholders participation happened to be a one day affair. Whereas Swami Vivekananda Youth

Employment Week was meticulously planned from October 2011 and implementation process

started from November 2011 onwards. By 15th

November 2011, the officers of Directorate of

Employment & Training, cutting across their individual branch domain approached the industries

located in their area through CII, FICCI, GCII, GIDC associations etc. and could identify the skilled

manpower requirement to the tune of about 100000.

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Having found such a huge manpower

requirement, massive publicity campaigns

were organized to make this information

reach skilled youth of the state through Print

media, Electronic media, Radio jingles, TV

scrolls, Banners, Leaflets, Brochures etc. This

publicity campaign continued from 15th

November 2011 to 31st

March 2012. During

this period, preliminary interview camps

were organized at Industrial Estates of

Taluka level and of District level between the

Employers and Prospective employees. In the

preliminary scrutiny, out of 126610 youths, 76843 were primarily selected and from January 2012

onwards, final selection interview camps were organized between the Employers and the Prospective

employees. This resulted in the final selection of 65,000 youths in the state.

An interesting phenomenon

emerged from this Swami Vivekananda

Youth Employment Week was that more

than 20% of youth of the Socially and

Economically Backward Class of the

society could get Job offers in the Private

Sector Industries. Many physically

challenged persons also had employment

opportunities in various Industries that

motivated similarly placed youth to take

up training in technical skill up-gradation

so as to get better placements in the

private sector. Participation of Employers were

from the sectors of Banking, Pharmaceutical, Insurance, IT, Chemical, Mechanical, Apparel, Textile

etc.

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The details of efforts made by nearly 400 Officials of Department from 15th November

2011 onwards for "Swami Vivekananda Youth Employment Week "are as follows.

Vacancies Notified 1,00,000

No. of Job Fairs organized 489

No. of Candidates Present in Job Fairs 1,26,610

No. of Employers Present in Job Fairs 2287

Selection against employment 52,000

Selection against Apprenticeship 13,000

Total candidates who were offered job

letters

65,000

Commemorating 150th

birth anniversary of Swami

Vivekananda, the Labour &

Employment Department of

the Govt. of Gujarat initiated

this special drive of industrial

job fairs from 15

th

November2011 to 15

thApril 2012 with

active participation of

industries located in Gujarat.

The Employment order

distribution ceremony functions

were organized in Rajkot, Vadodara,

Ahmedabad and Surat during 9-13 April 2012. During the celebrations, at Rajkot, 13079 (10079Employment and 3000 Apprenticeship), at Vadodara, 13229 (10029 Employment and 3200

Apprenticeship), at Ahmedabad 13380(10380 Employment and 3000 Apprenticeship), and at Surat

25312 (21512 Employment and 3800 Apprenticeship) orders were distributed in the presence of

Honble Chief Minister of Gujarat State, who was visionary to drive the department to organize such a

unique job fair in the state to celebrate 150th

birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.