Awareness camp on self Employment Schemes & Career Counselling held by District Employment and Counseling Centre Jammu

Awareness camp on self Employment  Schemes & Career Counselling held by District Employment and Counseling Centre Jammu was organized at Village Harsha Dabber , Bishnah, Jammu which was organized by District Employment and Counseling Centre Jammu under the supervision of Deputy Director Employment, Jammu Dr. Manisha  Koul .The programne was organized by following the COVID-19 guidelines issued by the local administration. The programme was aimed at educating the local youth about Self Employment Schemes being implemented by various Government Departments in UT J&K.

The Career Counselling Officer Mr. Dushant  Singh & Employment Officer Ms. Shivali Choudhary, the resource persons from the District Employment  & Counselling Centre Jammu, talked about Seed Capital Fund Scheme, Youth Start Up Loan Scheme, Tejaswini Scheme, Mumkin Scheme, Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme etc. The aim of such Awareness Programmes being conducted in rural areas is to reach out to the youth at grassroots level and help them by providing necessary Guidance & Counselling to increase their Employability.

Along with this Ms. Monika Bali, Senior Assistant highlighted the role of Registration process & unemployment cards made by Employment department. The youth was guided about registering with the online portal of the department jakemp.nic.in.

Sushil Singh Charak Chairman Nations Development Association (NDA) said that empowering women socially and economically, Jammu and Kashmir Mission Youth has notified Tejaswini Scheme for implementation in the Union Territory. Pertinently, the scheme launched by Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, in June, 2021 is a start up funding programme for adolescents and young women of the UT making them empowered and self dependent through their own business ventures. The broad aim of the scheme is to provide financial assistance to the young women of 18 to 35 years of age for setting up gainful self-employment ventures, suited to their skills, training, aptitude and local conditions. Under the scheme, female entrepreneurs shall be facilitated to avail financial assistance under Mudra from J&K Bank to the extent of Rs.5.00 lakh. Mission Youth, J&K shall provide an amount of Rs.50,000 or 10% of project cost as subsidy. Besides, interest component of the loan shall also be sponsored by Mission Youth as special incentive and repayment of loan will technically be interest free for the young female entrepreneurs who apply for assistance under the scheme.

The scheme intends to provide assistance to all eligible young women who are domiciles of J&K and have a qualification of matriculation and above. It will also cater to enterprises where women entrepreneurs hold not less than 50% of financial holding besides providing assistance to set up women centric businesses and micro start-ups.

Sankandya Devi Mahila Mora State Executive Member said that thank you to the District Employment and Counseling Centre Jammu which has come to this Bishnah and made our people aware of these schemes to our youth.  We thank them wholeheartedly. Career Counselling Officer Mr. Dushant  Singh , Chairman Nations Development Association (NDA) Sushil Singh Charak, Employment Officer Ms. Shivali Choudhary , Ms. Monika Bali, Senior Assistant ,Jai Bharati Ward Memebr Ward No 13 Bishnah, Reti Devi, Neena  Neemal Chib Sarpanch, Sankandya Devi Rakesh Kumar Ex- Sarpanch , Ram Paul, were also present on the occasion.