South Korea has proposed to provide job avenues to 10,000 youth from Punjab annually for which it offered to open a centre in the state teaching Korean language.
Those qualifying level-I test conducted twice a year by the embassy of South Korea would get three-year work visa of South Korea, said Punjab Technical Education and Industrial Training Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday after meeting with a South Korean delegation, including Chief of Daora Trading Company of South Korea Seong G Kim and CEO of Biotrack International Hee Seung Kang.
Channi said that the proposal was seriously considered in the presence of senior officers of the state government and an agreement would soon be inked by the Punjab Government.
“Punjab Government is making all round efforts to provide skill training to the youth of the state and provide employment opportunities in the country besides inking accords with the foreign companies to make available job opportunities to them abroad also,” said Channi.
Under this plan, the foreign firms too are coming forward to sign agreements to establish skill development centres in Punjab, he said.