By FNS
Government will involve institutions like IIM, IIT and TISS to nurture human resources of North-East region, especially younger generation.

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One lakh youth of Jammu and Kashmir will get training for jobs and self-employment opportunities in the next five years. These include school dropouts, dropouts of XII class level and students having college education. Read the rest of this entry »

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If you need a job at the lower level or want to get admission in some job-oriented courses the workable knowledge of computer is now a mandatory requirement. Read the rest of this entry »

Employees at a factory in Britain may decide to take legal action after their wages were cut every time they went to the toilet.

Staff at the meat processing plant Dunbia, in Sawley, were told to clock off each time they went to the toilet. Money was deducted from their pay packets. Read the rest of this entry »

Employment generation and right to education (RTE) will be focus areas apart from other areas like food security, welfare of minorities for the recently constituted National Advisory Council (NAC). This has been decided in a meeting of NAC, chaired by NAC Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

All members including M.S. Swaminathan, Ram Dayal Munda,  Narendra Jadhav, Pramod Tandon, Dr. Jean Dreze, Aruna Roy, Madhav Gadgil, N.C. Saxena,  Dr. Shiva Kumar, Deep Joshi,  Anu Agha, Farah Naqvi,  Harsh Mander and  Mirai Chatterjee, attended the meeting.

The members agreed that the work of the NAC would be to provide policy and legislative inputs to Government with special focus on social policy and the rights of disadvantaged groups. The NAC would also give attention to the broad priority areas outlined in the President’s speech to the Parliament on 4th June 2009.

 Food Security Bill, natural resource management including revitalization of agriculture, development of SC and ST, welfare of minorities, communal violence Bill, poverty elimination and employment generation, land rights and land reforms, disadvantaged children, health security and medical  insurance, social security and safety net for the disadvantaged groups,  urban poverty and development of North-East region will be prime focus areas of the council.

It has come to the notice of the government that a large number of workers misguided by some unscrupulous Indian as well as Malaysian Recruiting Agents (RAs) are emigrating to Malaysia without proper documentation about their employment, foreign employer and employment contract etc. As a result such Indian workers become vulnerable to exploitation by their employers in Malaysia and often get stranded in Malaysia without work and then lodge complaints in the Indian High Commission at Kuala Lumpur.

Indian High Commission at Kuala Lumpur has formulated guidelines for Indian workers who want to take up legal employment in Malaysia. The Indian workers intending to seek legal employment in Malaysia should get themselves familiarized with the laws and working conditions in Malaysia. These guidelines are available on the website www.mohr.gov.my. The Indian workers planning to take up legal employment in Malaysia, should take the following steps, on arrival in Malaysia:

(i) Obtain a resident permit or identity card and a labour card immediately,
(ii) Keep their passports in safe custody and not part with their travel document, (i.e., passport) and employment contract signed by them in India,
(iii) At least, a copy of the passport should always be carried by them at all times,
(iv) They should not sign another employment contract or any blank paper during his/her stay in Malaysia,
(v) In case of loss of passport or copy of the employment contract, a report may be lodged with the Indian High Commission immediately,
(vi) They should get themselves apprised about the working conditions in Malaysia,
(vii) They should note that strike by workers in Malaysia is an illegal act under Malaysian Law.
Source: PIB

Though the education is the primary focus for the government but the Union Budget has increased the budgetary allocation about 16 percent for the primary education for the year 2010-11. It has been increased from Rs.26800 crore to Rs. 31300 cr. Several other measures have been taken in the field of education and creation of new jobs for younger generation in the budget.

Bundelkhand, which have been a centre of focus for AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, has been given Rs. 1200 crore for job creation in the area. Rs. 40100 crore has been allocated for the National Rural Employment Scheme and Rs. 48000 crore for Bharat Nirman scheme to create more employment in the country.

The Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has proposed to increase post matric (10th standard) scholarships for SC categories. Promise has also been made for creation of more rehabilitation centres in the country for physically challenged people.
A National Clean Energy Fund has also been proposed for innovation and development of clean energy.