Job lost due to Covid-19, bureau comes to rescue of specially abled
Tribune News Service
Mohali, December 28
Rendered jobless due to the pandemic, a specially abled man from Mohali has now been employed as a data entry operator at Baba Farid University due to assistance rendered by the District Bureau of Employment and Entrepreneurship (DBBE).
Beyond financial gain, the job has restored my son’s self-esteem and prevented him from falling into the abyss of hopelessness.
Rajiv Kumar Gupta, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Development), said Covid took its toll by rendering Shubam jobless in April this year. Striving for months on his own, Shubam could not get a job and on having read about DBBE facilitating placements, he walked into the Bureau office at District Administrative Complex with his father. He submitted his resume and his options for the type of job that he would like to be enlisted in. Subsequently, the DBEE officials shared his resume with the prospective employers and he was invited to a placement camp. Soon after, he was shortlisted for the post of a data entry operator by Baba Farid University through outsourcing.
Rajiv Kumar Gupta said Shubam was elated at being employed and so was his father Ravindernath Jatana, who was all praise for state government’s ‘Ghar-Ghar Rozgaar’ initiative.
“Beyond financial gain, the job has restored my son’s self-esteem and prevented him from falling into the abyss of hopelessness,’’ says Ravindernath Jatana, who, in a bid to make his son self-reliant, had not just ensured that deaf and dumb Shubam clears his higher secondary education but also equipped him with computer knowledge through various short term courses.
The ADC said that the DBBE facilitated job placement for the youth who register with them on their portal — www.pgrkam.com. The bureau also extends career counseling, facilitation of loans for self-employment, short -term skill courses and placement camps.
