the goan I network
PANAJI
Stating that 2018-19 will be the year of employment, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar laid stress on generating local employment by providing nearly Rs 548.89 crore for the industrial sector, labour, employment and information-technology.
A minimum employment assurance scheme of Rs 20 crore has been initiated for Goan youth in private companies and a provision of Rs 55 crore has been earmarked as subsidies for industries.
While making these provisions, I understood the shortcomings of our system, which needs to be tuned with the requirements of the industry so as to increase the potential towards employment and self-entrepreneurship, Parrikar said.
The Budget allocation for the IT sector has been almost doubled in 2018-19. Parrikar allocated Rs 331.19 crore for IT sector in 2018-19, which is 95.9 per cent more than Rs 169.03 crore that was allocated in 2017-18.
In this process, I have not neglected social, health, agriculture sectors, which are close to my heart. It is the endeavour of my government to facilitate employment generation in all sectors on the state.”
