CM Adityanath Says Uttar Pradesh Government Will Provide Jobs To 10,000 Youths In 100 Days

Last week, Yogi Adityanath took oath as the chief minister of the state for a second consecutive time.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (PTI)

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed all the service selection boards to provide government jobs to more than 10,000 youths of the state in the next 100 days.

"The state government is committed to provide government jobs to the youth. The government has given instructions to all the service selection boards to provide government jobs to more than 10,000 youths of the state in the next 100 days," Yogi Adityanath said in a tweet.

Yogi Adityanath issued the directive at a meeting with the chairpersons of selection boards. The CM asked them to expedite the recruitment process and clear the backlog.

The decision to provide government jobs in the state was taken during the first Cabinet meeting held last week. Adityanath has set a target of providing five crore employment opportunities in Uttar Pradesh over the next 5 years.

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In the meeting, Adityanath said that a recruitment drive would be run in government departments and directed the public sector officials to prepare a list of vacancies, ANI had reported. The Chief Minister also instructed the government department officials to work with honesty in the recruitment drive.

Last week, Adityanath took oath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the second consecutive time in a jam-packed Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow.

During campaigning for the polls, Adityanath had said that his government had provided five lakh government jobs and his policies created two crore self-employment opportunities in the last five years in the state.

(With agency inputs)