Migrants in Bihar to get job alerts via mobile app

PATNA: The Bihar government is developing a mobile application through which returnee migrant workers will get notification for job vacancies in various industrial units in the state based on their mapped skills.
A database containing the skill-mapping details of migrants and the specific requirements of various industries will be built into the app being developed by the industries department. It will match a job seeker suited for an available job and an offer will be directly sent to the workers on their registered mobile number.
“The details of workers generated through skill-mapping is being uploaded in the Shram Sansadhan (labour resources) portal of the industries department. As of now, the existing industrial units are manually sending their requirements to district industries centres, who are furnishing them the details regarding availability of workers of the required skills in the corresponding district,” industries minister Shyam Rajak told TOI on Wednesday.
“But this process started with the commencement of skill mapping work will be automated as the department is developing a mobile application through which workers will directly get job alerts,” he added.
According to the information and public relations department secretary Anupam Kumar, artificial intelligence technology will also be used for job-matching for returnee migrant laborers.
“The database based on skill mapping is being uploaded and the industries also feed their requirement of manpower on this portal for job-matching purpose. Plans are afoot to use artificial intelligence for job-matching, following which messages will be sent on mobile phones of workers. The workers will get choice of different vacancies and they can choose their job and an offer will be sent to them accordingly. The system for the same is being upgraded,” Anupam said.
An estimated 29 lakh people, mostly migrant workers, have returned from various states since the lockdown owing to the Cobid-19 pandemic. As per official figures, more than 21 lakh people have returned by Shramik special trains since May 2. Others have returned via road, either by hitch-hiking or even walking.
The state government initiated the process of skill-mapping of returnee migrants soon after they started returning and were accommodated in quarantine centres. As per figures available with industries department, around 16 lakh skilled and semi-skilled workers have been identified in the skill- mapping works, which is in the final stage at present. Out of the 16 lakh skilled and semi- skilled workers, around 8.40 lakh workers have been identified as construction workers, 57,000 tailors, 41,000 carpenters, 4,000 food processing workers and 1,400 handicraft workers among others.
Rajak said, “A Chhattisgarh based egg-hatchery firm and a biscuit manufacturing firm have also confirmed to set up their units in Bihar. The hatchery will soon sign a memorandum of understanding for setting up their unit in Muzaffarpur district, which will employ 1,000 workers.”