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Scheme for jobless skilled youth
Our Bureau
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 5 The Kerala Government has given administrative sanction to a self-employment scheme for jobless skilled youth in the State.
The scheme envisages launching of multi-purpose service centres and ‘job clubs’ for the youth, for which the budget for the current year has allocated Rs. 1 crore.
The scheme will be applicable to those who have registered at any one of the employment exchanges in the State. Those who have not registered themselves in the exchanges but possessing practical training in some trade will also be eligible under the scheme. But their number will not exceed 10 per cent of the total number of beneficiaries, according to an official statement.
The applicant should be between the age of 25 and 40 and the annual family income should be less than Rs. 50,000. Those belonging to the backward communities will get three years’ relaxation in the age norm, while it will be five years in the case of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Both men and women can become members of the job clubs. However, only women can become members of job clubs meant for home nurses and home maids. And priority will be given to those who have professional or technical qualifications and receiving unemployment wages.
Workers in the traditional industrial sectors who possess proficiency certificates issued by the State Industrial Training Department and candidates with training certificates from ITI/ ITC/polytechnics in the State will also get priority under the scheme.
The beneficiaries selected under the scheme will no longer be eligible for unemployment wages.
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