NDTV News:
In a unique Diwali celebration this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will “gift” jobs to 75,000 youth across the country. The PM will interact with youngsters through video conferencing on October 22, two days before Diwali, sources said.
Appointment letters will be handed over to 75,000 young people for jobs in various ministries and government departments.
Jobs will be allocated in the Defence Ministry, Railway Ministry, the post department, Home Ministry, Labour and Employment Ministry, Central Industrial Security Force, Central Bureau of Investigation, customs, and banking, among others.
Union ministers will also participate in this program from different cities across the country.
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will join from Odisha, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya from Gujarat, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur from Chandigarh, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal from Maharashtra, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav from Rajasthan, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman from Tamil Nadu, Heavy Industries Minister Mahendra Pandey from Uttar Pradesh, Minister of Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda from Jharkhand, and Minister of Panchayati Raj Giriraj Singh from Bihar.
Other ministers will also join from different cities.
All MPs will join the program from their parliamentary constituencies.
PM Modi had said in June this year that ten lakh jobs would be created by December next year.
