AGARTALA, April 25 (TIWN): On Wednesday morning, Tripura's job aspirants rushed to attend 'Job Fair' in Agartala and othe places, where direct recruitment are going on by some South Indian Textile mills under "Southern India Mills Association" (SIMA). Textile mills in South India, however are undergoing a high rate of attrition and had planned to conduct a job fair at Agartala on April 25-26 to recruit workers directly. Southern India Mills’ Association chairman P. Nataraj said there was a meeting recently where they studied the problems are being faced by mills in recruiting employees.The association had proposed many states including Tripura and the Tripura Government responded immediately. Seven textile are here to recruit about 4,000 workers. “This is on a trial basis and the candidates can join work immediately. There are several schemes of the Central government under which the mills will train the workers for three months and then induct them as operators,” Mr. Nataraj said to media on the background of the fair.

Presently Tripura is topping in unemployment rate, whereas the Chief Minister Biplab Deb has challenged to appoint 7 lakhs youths within next 30 months in various jobs.

CM regarding job-distributions said, "Our Vision Document  never promised that BJP Govt will provide govt jobs, rather we would arrange job opportunities or source of income through training. People criticized us saying BJP is trying to diminish govt job opportunities from state, but it's not true. Govt jobs can never bring prosperity to a state, rather industries are responsible for the income of any govt".   

However, the fair to be continued till tomorrow and the interviewers will basically check the "consistency" of the candidates, who would never leave the job after 6-7 months of training. 

The interview is going on at "Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy Smriti Vidya Mandir" school in Agartala and in other places also. Minimum qualification of the applicant is matriculation.