Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced that the Bihar government will provide jobs and employment to one crore youth between 2025-2030. For this, Karpoori Thakur Skill University will be established. So far, 10 lakh government jobs and 39 lakh employment have been given.
Nitish Kumar has made a big move before the Bihar elections. The Chief Minister of Bihar said on Sunday that the Bihar government will provide jobs and employment opportunities to one crore youth in the next five years.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced that the state government will set up Jannayak Karpuri Thakur Skill University to provide skill development training to connect youth with self-employment opportunities in the next five years (2025-2030). Kumar’s announcement is important before the assembly elections to be held later this year.
Nitish promises jobs and employment to youth
Kumar said in a post on the social media platform ‘X’ on Sunday morning, ‘In the next five years (2025 to 2030), a target is being set to provide government jobs and employment to one crore youth, doubling the target of the year 2020-25. To achieve this target, new job and employment opportunities will also be created in private, especially industrial sectors. A high-level committee is being formed for this.’
Claimed ‘I am happy to inform that so far 10 lakh youth have been given government jobs and about 39 lakh people have been given employment in the state and the target of providing government jobs/employment to more than 50 lakh youth will definitely be achieved.’
The Chief Minister clarified that under the ‘Saat Nischay’ program, skill development training is being given to provide self-employment opportunities to the youth of the state.
Nitish Kumar expressed, ‘The program going on under ‘Saat Nischay’ for skill development of youth will be expanded in the next five years. In the coming time, a skill university will be established for skill development, which will be named Jananayak Karpuri Thakur Skill University after Bihar’s pride Bharat Ratna Jananayak Karpuri Thakur ji so that the youth of the state can get a new direction of skill development.’
12 lakh jobs, target of 38 lakh employment
The Chief Minister said that between 2005 and 2020, more than eight lakh youth of Bihar were provided government jobs.
The Chief Minister said, to further accelerate the pace of providing government jobs and employment to the youth, in 2020, under the good governance program ‘Saat Nischay-2’, we had resolved to provide government jobs to 10 lakh youth and employment to 10 lakh people. Later, this target was increased to 12 lakh youth and employment to 38 lakh people by August 2025.
