UP rolls out minority job fairs

The minority affairs department in the state has rolled out job fairs for minority youth on Wednesday.

The job fairs for minorities, organised by the minority welfare department in the state, started from Lucknow on Wednesday, with the government claiming 465 job offers were made to youth by companies that participated in the government’s outreach campaign. “Forty-four companies and about 2,500 youths participated in the exercise,” said UP’s junior minorities minister Danish Azad Ansari who also gave ‘offer letter’ to the selected participants at the job fair in the minority-dominated old city. These job fairs would be organised in all 18 divisions of the state.

“We are starting from Lucknow and thereafter these job fairs would be held across the state in minoritydominated pockets. In Lucknow, camps were also organised to guide minority youth wanting to turn entrepreneurs,” Ansari said.