Nagaland has more than 70000 registered unemployed youths

[caption id="attachment_187470" align="alignnone" width="550"] Kazheto Kinimi inaugurating the PMKVY training centre at the Emporium in Dimapur on Tue. June 5.[/caption] Eastern Mirror Desk Dimapur, June 5: There are more than 70,000 youths registered as unemployed at the directorate of Employment, and we have unaccounted numbers of unregistered unemployed youths, the advisor to the state chief minister for Skill Development, Kazheto Kinimi said. With less scope for employment opportunity in the state and with no big factories, companies or industries to give employment to the many number of youths, Kinimi asserted that the Peoples’ Democratic Alliance (PDA) govt is committed to impart and empower the youths with the skills training and help in self employment and other employment opportunities. He was speaking at the inaugural programme of the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) training centre at Emporium training and consultancy, Half Nagarjan in Dimapur on Tuesday June 5. With the PMVKY training centre inaugurated at Emporium training centre, the centre will act as a training partner under the state component. ‘I would like to once again recommit and uphold the promise and the vision of the PDA govt. towards the overall progress of our society especially towards the youths of our society; and I as an advisor to chief minister for Skill Development, labour and employment & Civil Administrative Works Division (CAWD) assures to work tirelessly and extend all possible help in implementing and executing govt plans and policies for empowering the youths of our society,’ Kinimi assured. The legislator also encouraged all the stakeholders especially to the emporium training and consultancy to continue their contribution towards the successful implementation of the vision of the state government. Lauding the management of Emporium for the commendable initiative in the establishment of PMKVY training centre here at Dimapur, he said it was first of its kind in Nagaland. Kinimi was optimistic that the training centre will go a long way in imparting and empowering the youths with the trainings and skills. Emporium Operations Manager Anirbhan Mukherjee informed that the Emporium training centre which has been in existence since 2013 in Nagaland has on record 96% of placement provided to Naga youths till date and 75% placement made in the airline sector. With this achievement Emporium has made a career progression in the industry and it also plan to come up in other parts of the state, Mukherjee said. Under the PMVKY training centre in Emporium, the training will be an 85 days programme where the students will be certified after the training under Skill Development and placement through various campus interviews. The number of candidates accommodated will be 220 every quarter and 880 candidates in a year. Mukherjee elucidated that the course fee was free of cost under the PMKVY scheme. State Commissioner-Secretary Anenla T Sato who attended the programme as the guest of honour remarked that it was high time for the state to have such training centre. “The government has a purpose to train every individual and understood that without society’s contribution the country will not prosper,” Sato commented. Around 11000 youths should be trained and 3200 by 2020 under PMKVY which will only benefit Naga youths, she asserted. ‘If we had such programmes two decades back we would have been prospering today’, she opined.