Gurugram: The Haryana government has advertised more overseas vacancies for the state’s youths — applications have now been invited for 41 categories of jobs, from caregivers to translators, in Finland, Uzbekistan, Japan, the UK, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.
The jobs were posted on 31 December, days after advertisements were issued to recruit 10,000 construction workers for Israel, 50 staff nurses for the Cambridge University Hospital in the UK, and 50 bouncers (security guards) in Dubai.
The fresh job adverts include those for 50 posts of caregivers in Finland for a monthly salary of €2093.83 to €2123.16 (approx. Rs 1.85 lakh to Rs 1.88 lakh) and in Japan for Rs 96,800-Rs 1.3 lakh/month.
Candidates are also being sought for 2,500 posts of nurses in the UK for £26,000-29,000/annum (approx. Rs 27.6 lakh to Rs 30.7 lakh), and translators in Uzbekistan, with knowledge of Hindi, English and Russian, for $1,000/month (Rs 83,243).
The jobs for construction workers in Israel have been advertised yet again.
The deadline for applications is 5 January.
Both rounds of vacancies have been advertised on the official website of the Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam (HKRN) Limited, a corporation set up by the state government to recruit contractual employees for government entities.
The vacancies have been issued months before the state goes to the elections, where the Opposition is likely to make unemployment in Haryana — second largest among major states — a campaign issue.
While the Opposition Congress has termed the foreign jobs an attempt to “befool” jobless Haryana youth, the government says they are a bid to address unemployment and also provide a safe avenue to youths looking to work abroad.
“The government wants that the youths who are interested in moving abroad for careers don’t fall prey to unscrupulous agents who dupe them of money and send them to different countries through illegal means,” said Praveen Attrey, media secretary to the Haryana government.
“We have recently seen how a plane headed for Nicaragua with more than 300 Indians, mostly from Punjab, was grounded by France and sent back to India.”
Asked why the government had readvertised the Israel vacancies, he said the HKRN had evoked a good response and the government wanted more youths to get the opportunity to apply before the selection process began.
The first round of ads for foreign jobs were issued on 15 December with a deadline of 20 December.
Leader of the Opposition in the assembly Bhupinder Singh Hooda has criticised the initiative, including the state’s bid to recruit candidates for jobs in “war-affected” Israel.
“We have seen the worst of unemployment in Haryana during the present BJP-JJP regime. The unemployment rate during January last year was put at 37.4 percent by the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE),” he added. “The state government has been unable to provide jobs within the state, and they were trying to befool the youths by tying up with private consultants for the overseas jobs they provide to people.”
If the government is serious about providing people with jobs, it should recruit youths for the “thousands of jobs lying vacant in the state”, he added.
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The jobs on offer
The jobs advertised include 200 posts of ‘Heavy Bus Drivers’ for a monthly salary of 2,600 Arab Emirate Dirhams (AED) or approx. Rs 58,910.60). There are another 95 vacancies for ‘Light Bus Drivers’, for 2,500 AED (Rs 56,661.82) per month.
There are 20 posts of restaurant staff (35 percent for males and 65 percent for females) in Japan for 2,40,000 yen (approx. Rs 1.42 lakh) per month.
The other advertisements pertain to vacancies for technicians in Saudi Arabia, including electricians and plumbers, AC technicians in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the UAE. UAE employers are also looking specifically for females working as masons, welders and cleaners.
Clicking on the link to any of these vacancies takes the applicant to the page of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), a not-for-profit company set up in 2008 on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to promote skill development.
While the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) holds 49 percent of the NSDC’s share capital, the private sector holds 51 percent.
(Edited by Sunanda Ranjan)
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