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How Are Bosses Helping Rural Kids Get Jobs? 🚀

The Ministry of Rural Development and a Rajasthan skill agency organized a meeting in Jaipur.

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Key Points

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The meeting aims to match skill training with what companies need.

At least 70% of trainees should get a job or start a business.

Companies can apply to become ‘captive employers’ and hire directly from the program.

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Fifty plus company chiefs and industry groups discussed hiring young people from the countryside.

The program, called Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Rural Skill Plan, has trained about 1.85 million youths.

Around 1.24 million of them have already found jobs or started their own businesses.

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3 words

captiv e employment

jobs created by the companies that join the program

sector

a part of the economy, like manufacturing or services

verification

checking that something is true

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