PM to distribute 51,000 appointment letters today, mostly in paramilitary forces
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi will
distribute 51,000 appointment
letters to youth across the
country tomorrow in ‘Rozgar
Mela’ through virtual mode
including Jammu and
Srinagar BSF Campus where
two Union Ministers of State
will be present physically to
handover the orders.
The ‘Rozgar Mela’ will be
held at 45 locations in the country.
Union Minister of State for
Development of North Eastern
Region and Cooperation BL
Verma will be present at the
‘Rozgar Mela’ in Jammu being
held at BSF Frontier
Headquarters Paloura while
Union Minister of State for
Home Ajay Kumar Mishra will
attend the function and distribute
letters among the selected
youth at STC BSF in Srinagar.
Union Minister of State in
the Prime Minister’s Office
(PMO) Dr Jitendra Singh,
Incharge Department of
Personnel and Training (DoPT)
will coordinate the programme from New Delhi.
The Prime Minister will virtually
address the newly recruited
youth. The Ministers and
other functionaries will then
physically handover appointment
letters to the selected
youth.
A total of 51,000 youth will
get the appointment letters
tomorrow, the officials said.
For past quite some months,
`Rozgar Mela’ is being held
every month. In the previous
such functions, 71,000 appointment
letters were given by the
Prime Minister in almost every
‘Rozgar Mela’.
This time, as per the officials,
a large number of youth
have been recruited in the
paramilitary forces.
An official statement
released by the Government on
the eve of ‘Rozgar Mela’ said
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
will distribute more than 51,000
appointment letters to newly
inducted recruits on August 28
via video conferencing. He will
also address the appointees on
the occasion.
“The Rozgar Mela will be
held at 45 locations across the
country. Through this Rozgar
Mela event, Ministry of Home
Affairs is recruiting personnel in
various Central Armed Police
Forces (CAPFs) such as Central
Reserve Police Force (CRPF),
Border Security Force (BSF),
Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB),
Assam Rifles, Central Industrial
Security Force (CISF), Indo
Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)
and Narcotics Control Bureau
(NCB) as well as Delhi Police,”
the statement said.
It added that the new
recruits, selected from across the
country, will be joining the various
positions such as Constable
(General Duty), Sub-Inspector
(General Duty) and Non-
General Duty Cadre Posts in
various organisations under the
Ministry of Home Affairs.
“Strengthening of CAPFs as
well as Delhi Police will help
these forces to play their multidimensional
role more effectively
like aiding in internal security,
counter terrorism, combating
insurgency, anti-left-wing
extremism and protecting the
borders of the nation,” the
statement said.
The Rozgar Mela is a step
towards fulfilment of the commitment
of the Prime Minister to
accord highest priority to employment
generation. The Rozgar
Mela is expected to act as a catalyst
in further employment generation
and provide meaningful
opportunities to the youth for their
empowerment and participation in
national development, it added.
The newly inducted
appointees are also getting an
opportunity to train themselves
through Karmayogi Prarambh, an
online module on iGOT
Karmayogi portal, where more
than 673 e-learning courses have
been made available for ‘anywhere
any device’ learning format.