Five Lakh Opportunities To Be Up For Grabs In IT sector

Creation of not less than five lakh employment opportunities to benefit the unemployed youth in the rural areas as well as qualified youth in the Information Technology and industry sectors is being visualised by Chief Minister YS Rajasekahara Reddy.Of these, three lakh youths are likely to find placement in the IT sector in the next three years while the remaining jobs in rural areas would depend upon the completion of several industries in the pipeline.Emphasising these points in the speech delivered after taking the Republic Day Parade salute, the Chief Minister also dwelt upon the radical ?Bhooyagnam? aimed at recovering assigned lands from the rich and hand them over to their rightful owners, the poor.The Chief Minister was sorry that large extent of land given to the poor had slipped into the possession of the rich landlords and realtors. The task of regaining those lands was indeed a difficult one but the government was intent on pursuing it spiritedly. It has to be done without inconvenience to the poor. He appealed to the occupants of the assigned lands to voluntarily surrender them to the government for redistribution to the landless poor.Though the Republic Day salute is normally taken by the Governor, the Chief Minister stepped into his shoes as in-charge Governor Rameshwar Thakur had to take to the salute in Bhubaneshwar.Dwelling on the promising employment scenario in the state, the Chief Minister said that the leather garments and footwear units in Nellore alone would create about 25,000 jobs and MAS Holdings in Chintavaram in the same district another 30,000 jobs besides spinning mills in Nayudupet another 15,000 jobs.Numerous spinning and garment units coming up in Guntur, Anantapur, Chittoor, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam would also generate considerable number of jobs. The Chief Minister outlined the multi-pronged strategy adopted by the government to enhance the employability of rural students in the IT sector in 2009, but stressed the need for improving the quality of education.He was hopeful of the software exports from the state touching Rs 19,000 crore this financial year compared to Rs 12,521 crore in 2005-06 and Rs 8,270 crore the year before.To attract students to education from the minority communities, the Chief Minister announced the launch of a novel programme of setting of pre-matric hostels in a dozen districts to begin with.On the education front, the government established a veterinary university and Vedic university in Tirupati, one university in each of the three regions, two engineering colleges in Kadapa and Karimnagar.