In a landmark initiative aimed at providing professionalguidance to the students studying in schools and colleges of the State,Education and Higher Education Minister Pargat Singh today unveiled the PunjabCareer Portal.
In a function held at the Punjab Bhawan, the Minister saidthat the major reason behind the unemployment problem is the inability tochoose right career. He also divulged that if the students are able to getadequate career guidance at an opportune time then they can work wonders inaccordance with their capability. Sharing a personal thought, he said that hadhe taken up some other sport instead of Hockey he would not have been able toperform so good.
Disclosing more, Pargat Singh said that the portal wouldplay a very significant role in guiding the students about various onlinecourses, scholarships and vocations as part of a series of measures beingundertaken by the Education Department. He also said 10 Lakh students would nowget while sitting at home the requisite info with regard to career counselling,courses and scholarship sectors.
The Secretary School Education Ajoy Sharma on the occasion saidthat via the portal the vital information about the qualifications and skillsrequired for various professions, would be provided to the students. The portalis connected with the life of every student and would be helpful to him/her inachieving their life goals. Extensive publicity campaign to popularise theportal through social media would be carried out in order to ensure its reachdown to each student and their parents.
The DGSE Pradeep Kumar Agarwal while welcoming the guestsdescribed it as the novel initiative of the Education Department which wouldprovide a common platform to redress the problems faced by the studentcommunity in deciding their career choices.
In her speech, the Professional Guidance Expert from UNICEFINDIA Lalita Sachdeva said that the students be equipped with the informationconcerning the possibilities in the new trades emerging in the modern era. Theportal would come in handy to ascertain the thoughts students harbour abouttheir future.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Aasma FoundationAyush Bansal shared valuable info about the mechanism, use and salient featuresof the portal which would also render great assistance in providing Informationregarding a multitude of institutions to continue Higher Education.
The CEO and MD of the Tata Power Limited Prabir Sinha saidthat in order to pursue these courses the students also require the socialbackup for which the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy of thedifferent industrial sectors can be of immense help.
The Advisor of the Punjab CSR Authority S.M. Goel mentionedthat the authority is maintaining regular contact with the divergent alliedinstitutions who are also coming out to extend help. He further added that theauthority is fully committed to address their issues by making them conversantwith every available bit of info through the portal and he wishes that maximumstudents derive benefit from the portal to reach the pinnacle of theirprofessions.
The DPI (Secondary Education) Sukhjit Pal Singh thanked allthe eminent personalities taking part in the function.
Among others present on the occasion the Deputy StateProject Coordinator Manoj Kumar, Amardeep Singh Bathh and District EducationOfficers from various districts, School Heads, Teachers and Students via theonline mode.