Private players eye state talents

Jamshedpur, Dec. 25: It is once again rush hour at employment offices with private sector companies scouting for skilled labour in the state.

If numbers are anything to go by then the state, which has close to 42 employment exchanges spread across its 24 districts, has already created new record with 20,430 recruitment so far. The numbers, which are till November, is likely to swell manifold in the remaining three months of the fiscal officials claimed.

While most of the recruitment have been through rozgar melas (17,600) around 2,800 aspirants have also bagged jobs through special drives, which have been carried out by the exchanges time and again.

Speaking to The Telegraph, director of employment and training Vishwanath Sah said that human resource managers of reputed companies were starting to flock the employment exchanges to pick up skilled talents.

"Private sector companies are increasingly participating in special recruitment drives through rozgar melas to pick up skilled and semi-skilled workforce," Sah said.

He added that the rozgar melas were organised by the state employment exchanges at the respective district headquarters.

"Private companies are offering on-the-spot job to aspirants during the recruitment drives. A special job drive is organised by us only when a specific company approaches us with vacancies for a particular work profile," Sah said.

He added that they chipped in such recruitment drives by providing a venue and supplying them with logistics that help the recruiters conduct the interviews and viva-voce.

The official, buoyed by the encouraging response that they have received so far, said that they were also mulling the extension of such job drives to left-wing extremism affected areas of the state in the next financial year.

"We will be making special provisions for this in the next financial year. The aim here is to reach out to as many youths as possible in the rebel-hit areas," Sah said.

Prodded about the private companies which were flocking to the special recruitment drives, Sah listed out the names of Tata Motors (Pantnagar), Aditya Birla Group (Calcutta), Aegis Limited (Delhi), Hero Honda Motors (Pune), Suzuki Power Train India Limited (Gurgaon), Jayco Agency Limited (Ghaziabad), SEW Infrastructure Limited (Mumbai), Genfab (Tamil Nadu) and Enercon India Limited (Mumbai).

Jharkhand has 18 district employment exchanges, six sub-regional exchanges in Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Dhanbad and Dumka.

Apart from this the state also has also set up 10 employment offices in Lalmatia (Bokaro), Torpa, Ghatshila, Chandil, Chakradharpur, Chaibasa, Sindri, Kumardhubi, Bokaro (Thermal) and Tenughat.

Dumka has one employment exchange for SCs and STs while the lone employment office catering exclusively to woman is located in state capital Ranchi.

The other job exchanges are university bureau employment exchanges at Ranchi and Dumka, an employment exchange for professional executive at Ranchi and three for the physically challenged people situated in Bokaro, Ranchi and Jamshedpur.