Our Correspondent
Hoshiarpur, December 15

Under the district administration’s UDAAN project as a part of ‘Ghar-Ghar Rozgar’ and the ‘Karobar Mission’, the District Bureau of Employment and Enterprises (DBEE), will be organising a job fair for persons with disabilities (PwDs) on December 17. In this job fair, 40 industrial units will interview candidates for the 197 vacancies.

Deputy Commissioner Apneet Riyait said the District Bureau of Employment and Enterprises (DBEE) would organise the fair in the multi-skill development centre in which the PwD candidates (speech, hearing and orthopaedically impaired) between the age group of 18-42, having passed Classes VIII, X and XII, besides having basic computer knowledge, can participate. This special job fair will commence from 10 am onwards, she added.

She said the 40 private industrial units of Hoshiarpur would select PwDs for various kinds of vacancies, including helper, computer operator, packers, tele-callers, chemist supervisor, carpenter. Those who want to run their own gram Suwidha Centre in their villages must participate in the job fair. Riyait exhorted the PwDs to take full advantage of the fair so that they become self-reliant.

District Employment Officer Karam Singh said the job fair would start at 10 am and will conclude at 3 pm and the said persons can visit the Facebook page of the District Bureau of Employment and Enterprises, Hoshiarpur, to get more information about the fair. He appealed to the visually-impaired and the candidates, who can’t move without assistance, not to participate in the fair.