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SERVICES PROVIDED BY PUNJAB EMPLOYMENT DEPARTMENT

SET UP OF PUNJAB EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

At present 49 Employment Exchanges are functioning in the State, 18 as District Employment Exchanges, 25 Town Employment Exchanges, one for Physically Handicapped Persons, 4 Divisional level Employment Offices, one Overseas Employment Cell. The main functions of the Employment Department are detailed as below:

i. Registration and placement of job-seekers in gainful employment.

ii. Providing Vocational and Career Guidance to job-seekers who visit Employment Exchanges as well as to students of Schools Colleges and Universities

iii. Publication and dissemination of occupational and career guidance literature.

iv. Enforcement of the Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act 1959.

v. Disbursement of Un-employment Allowance to the educated un-employed registrants.

vi. Occupational Information Unit in Directorate studies and analyses various occupants, collects and compiles occupational information regarding training facilities available in the State.

vii. Collection and compilation of statistics regarding Employment Market Information.

viii. Providing employment assistance and guidance to those persons who are desirous of going abroad for employment, higher education or professional training.

VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE PROGRAMME

The main objective of this programme is to provide guidance and employment counselling to students of schools/colleges and un-employed youth registered with the Employment Exchanges keeping in view their educational and mental capacities, interests, aptitudes and present employment trends. The Vocational Guidance is free and voluntary and is available to all the registrants and the students of schools colleges and universities. 15 Vocational Guidance Units and four Deputy Directors (Vocational Guidance) are functioning in the State.
EMPLOYMENT MARKET INFORMATION

This programme envisages quarterly study of employment situation in the state. The information thus collected is analysed, compiled and submitted to the Director General of Employment & Training, Government of India, Ministry of Labour, New Delhi and State Planning Board for formulating manpower scheme. This programme helps in identifying the changes in the pattern of employment and occupations in the State and extent of shortages and surplus of various types of workers. the programme covers all establishments in Public Sector including Quasi Government establishments and those in Private Sector (Non-Agricultural) which normally employ 10 persons or more.
ENFORCEMENT OF COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF VACANCIES ACT-1959

With a view to ensuring proper compliance of the provisions of Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959 and Enforcement Cell was setup in the Directorate of Employment Punjab in July 1974. Its main purpose is to acquaint and guide the employers both in Public and Private Sectors about the provisions and requirements of the said Act to notify all the vacancies to the nearest employment exchange.
UNEMPLOYMENT ALLOWANCE TO EDUCATED UNEMPLOYED PERSONS

The Government is giving top priority to the promotion of self-employment in the State particularly among the educated un-employed youth. In order to have information about the different viable projects in each District, Department of Employment got the Self-employment surveys conducted through an agency NITCON.
SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE FOR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED APPLICANTS

A Special Employment Exchange for Physically Handicapped is functioning at Ludhiana providing employment assistance to these categories of Physically Handicapped job-seekers i.e. the Blind, the Deaf and the Dumb and the Orthopaedically Handicapped persons of the State, according to their residual capacity, mobility and the degree of disability. Recently, the exchange is given the responsibility of verification of records of employers and placement under PWD Act, 1995.
CAREER LITERATURE/PUBLICATION

A Career Study Centre was established in 1971 in the Directorate of Employment Punjab on the guidelines supplied by the Directorate General of Employment & Training, New Delhi. The main purpose of centre is to prepare Career literature and publications.
OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
The youth, of Punjab Immigrate to other foreign countries with a plenty of goodwill and technical expertise in their field. Basically they are very dedicated and hard working lot. As a matter of fact, it is on record, that they are contributing a great deal in the promotion of the economy of the country, wherever they are settled. In order to help young men and women in finding a right type of job abroad and at the same to provide best of talented applicants to the Foreign Employers. Govt. of Punjab have strengthened the Overseas Employment Cell by creating a very strong computerised data base, therein all types of applicants are available. Foreign Employers can be provided with candidates according to their requirements at the shortest possible notice.

For more information one can contact the department directly. THIS IS ONLY FOR INFORMATION. NO CLAIM IN ANY CHANGE.

Department of Employment Generation and Training

It is to understand nomenclature has changes not the ACT of 1959

Employment Department, Punjab has changed its name from Department of Employment Punjab to Department of Employment Generation and Training, Punjab.

After the 2nd world war in 1945, for orderly absorption of the released service personnel and other war workers; the need for an organisation to handle this complex problem in a uniform manner was felt and in July, 1945 Directorate General of Resettlement and Employment ” was set up

In 1947, after partition of the Country this Directorate was entrusted the job of resettlement of a large number of displaced persons (refugees).

In early 1948, the Employment Exchanges were thrown open to all categories of applicants which required transition of Employment Service from a resettlement agency to an all India placement organisation.

On 1-11-1956 the day to day administration of the Employment services was handed over to the state governments. So now the Employment service is the joint concern of the Central and State Governments where the Central Government formulates national policies, standards and procedure to be followed by the Employment Exchanges in the states; coordinates the work of the Employment Exchanges in the states; plans and formulates programmes for expansion and development of the services; conducts training programmes for employment officers and other such works which are required for the betterment of these services whereas State Governments fully control the Employment Exchanges in their respective states.

In 1959 The Employment Exchanges Compulsory Notification of vacancies Act was enacted by the Parliament and after notification of its rules, it came into force from 1-5-1960. Under the provisions of the Act all the establishments in the public sector and all the establishments in the private sector normally employing 25 or more workers are required to notify their vacancies and also render quarterly and biennial returns to the Employment Exchange of their area.

Creation of new Department of Employment Generation A new Department of Employment Generation and Training has been carved out of the Department of Labour and Employment vide Govt Notification No. 18/16/2007-GC(2)/7219 Dated 11-04-2007 and 31-07-2007 with the following main objectives:

To develop a vision, strategy & policy framework for employment generation & training

To suggest measures to derive synergy of the plans and programmes of various departments working directly or indirectly for employment generation and vocational training.
To advise on institutional and organizational mechanism for effective implementation of the action plan for employment generation and the vocational training to make the youth really employable by enhancing their skills and competencies.
To regularly plan, implement, monitor and oversee employment generation action plans in the State and advise on the future steps to be taken.
To facilitate manpower planning and vocational training in all the key sectors of the economy.
Bringing out critical gaps in various services sectors and facilitate addressing these gaps as per the requirement of the national and international market.

To identify and advise on the regulatory aspects of job oriented training policies.
Facilitate establishing more job oriented vocational institutions in the Public Private Partnership Mode in line with the requirement of skilled manpower and enhancing the capacity of the existing institutions.
Harnessing the potential of various self help youth groups and educational organisations of repute.

Present Functions of the Employment Department: 1. Registration of job seekers for placement against notified vacancies. 2. (a) Providing education and vocational information to students, applicants and parents. (b) Collects compiles and disseminates information about various self employment schemes being offered by various departments of the state. The Employment Officer identifies and motivates candidates from the Live Register for adopting self employment as a way of life. (c) Prepares and distributes career literature free of cost to schools, colleges and libraries. Available career literature in English language is also translated into regional language for its better understanding at the grass root level. 3. Under the Employment Market Information programme information of the manpower market is collected and compiled for state and national level planning. 4. The department works for the implementation of various sections of The Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959. 5. Disburses unemployment allowance to Educated Unemployed applicants registered with the employment exchanges with specified terms & conditions as per The Punjab Payment of Unemployment Allowance to Educated Unemployed Persons Rules 1978. 6. Provides employment assistance and guidance to persons desirous of going abroad through its Overseas Employment Cell. 7. A special employment exchange provides employment services to disabled persons by approaching employers and motivating them to employ physically challenged but otherwise eligible applicants. 8. Implements employment related sections of “Persons With Disabilities Act 1995″. New functions and roles of the Department In addition to the present functions, the Department will be performing following new functions:

i) Enhance the employability of Punjab Youth by improving their Vocational and soft skills

ii) Vocationalisation of education system at school and college level and to facilitate Vocational training for school drop-outs and informal sector

iii) Promote Entrepreneurship and self-employment

iv) Prepare Punjab Youth, through rigorous trainings, for employment in Defence services and other jobs based on competitive examinations.

v) Fully prepare Punjab youth for overseas opportunities through enhancement of vocational skills and foreign language skills and by providing emigration assistance.

vi) Upgrade Existing Employment Exchanges to Electronic Employment & Training Bureaus

vii) To make available some of the employment services through Suwidha Centres at District/Subdivision level and Kiosks at village/ town level.

viii) Every University, deemed university and selected institutions to be notified as an e-employment exchange in their respective areas to make their services easily accessible.

ix) Conduct Manpower Survey and Job Survey to assess skill and competency gaps.

x) Vocational Awareness, Counseling and Guidance to Punjab Youth, administering profiling tests.

xi) Identification, Fine Tuning and Design of Training programmes.

xii) Apprenticeship training to be effectively administered and monitored

xiii) Active involvement of C-PYTE in every district for training of youth is important.

xiv) Make it compulsory for all the institutions and selected schools to establish at least 20% to 30% seats on Vocational Education by addition/ conversion

xv) Examination and certification of training and skills

xvi) Liaison for placement of Youth with corporate, recruitment agencies

xvii) Organise Job festivals, job melas, seminars, conferences etc. for job placements

xviii) Foreign Training and Employment Bureau for providing employment assistance, guidance, and training to the Punjab Youth desirous of going abroad for employment and business opportunities in the foreign countries like Canada, USA, Europe, Australia, Middle East etc.

xix) Liaison with foreign manpower ministries and employers

xx) Check on the activities of unregistered agents.

xxi) Pre-Departure cum orientation programme.