MP seeks IGNOU help in skill upgrade
Social security schemes for workers coming
| The State Employment Board is chalking out a plan in this regard to create a system of awarding formal certification to skilled workers so that they can get organised sector jobs. |
| That way skilled workers would be able to get jobs in domestic firms as well as those abroad, particularly Gulf countries, said Vishwapati Trivedi, principal secretary, employment affairs. |
| The PHDCCI has recently asked the government to create an ambience for shifting workers from the agriculture sector to the manufacturing and service sectors, and modernise agriculture. |
| "The government's role should be a regulator in employment," said K N Memani, president, PHDCCI, in Bhopal. According to an estimate, more than one crore are unemployed in the state. Skilled workers are suffering the most. |
| A formal training would be provided to upgrade the skills, according to the needs of industry, said Trivedi. |
| In another development, the state government has also launched a scheme called "assistance in the case of death (funeral assistance) and ex-gratia payment scheme", which will cover construction workers in the age group 18"�60. |
| A deceased worker's family members will get funeral assistance within a week of his or her death provided the worker is a registered member of labourers under the Building and Other Construction Labour Welfare Board Act. |
| "Ex-gratia payment will be made by cheque to the family within six months of the death of the worker, after verifying the deceased worker's age," a government spokesperson said. |
| The state government has decided to provide funeral assistance of Rs 2,000 and an ex-gratia of a minimum of Rs 15,000"�20,000 to kith and kin of a construction worker in the case of an accidental death. |