To ensure employment to the state’s youth, Haryana government will launch an employment project under which unemployed graduate and post-graduate youth will be given training on freelancing platforms like upworks.com, Guru.com, Odesk.com.
The project will be launched in five colleges in the state in collaboration with private sector. Sharing more information in this regard, Haryana education minister Kanwar Pal said that in the first phase, the graduate and Post-graduate students studying at Government Post Graduate College Sector-1 Panchkula, Pandit Chiranji Lal Sharma Government Postgraduate College Karnal, Government Post Graduate College Hisar, Dronacharya Government College Gurugram and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru Government College Sector-16, Faridabad will get training.
He said this type of training will generate self-employment opportunities in selected colleges for the excellence of higher education. The minister informed that after successful implementation of training in these colleges, graduate and postgraduate youth in other government colleges will also be trained to start self-employment and will get an opportunity to work from home.
He informed that through this program not only the entrepreneurship opportunities of the students will be increased but the foreign currency inflow will also increase in the State, as income from most freelancing portals comes in foreign currency only.
Kanwar Pal said Union government and the state government is emphasising on the startup policy to promote self-employment, entrepreneurship, and employment to the youth.
The minister further said that in line with the Startup Policy of the Union and state government, department of higher education Haryana is working dedicatedly to create a startup ecosystem in higher education institutes.