Jammu, April 11 : Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday launched a dedicated portal of Mission Youth, in collaboration with Vision India, to connect the youth of the on Territory with the industry. The initiative aims to provide more than 10,000 job opport ties to the youth in 2022. The dedicated portal ‘AVSAR-Connect to Opport ties Initiative,’ has been provisioned to facilitate the youth with real-time information flow, notifying students about pre-placement activities and job opport ties, said Sinha. “All ITIs and other technical institutions in the UT will be on-boarded in the programme for achieving the best outcomes for our enterprising youth,” he added. The Lt Governor said the Jammu and Kashmir administration has taken many steps to create infrastructure, schemes and policies to speed up economic development, and meet the aspirations of youth, so they can contribute to the society and achieve self-growth. “The easily accessible online platform would act as an interface between trained and skilled workforce and Industry requirement in J&K,” he added. “The Jammu and Kashmir administration is determined to provide quality education, skill training and better employment to the youth,” the Lt Governor said on the launch of the online portal dedicated to connect youth with job opport ties. He asked the CEO, Mission Youth to organise Job fairs in Jammu and Srinagar to facilitate the Youth. The Lt Governor said that keeping in view the industries to be set up in J&K under the New Industrial Scheme, special focus should be given on training of local youth to fulfill the needs of skilled workforce. He directed for conducting a survey and preparing a database of all the people to be connected with job opport ties. Acting as a bridge to connect the youngsters with the industry, Mission Youth under its AVSAR (Connect to Opport ties Initiative), has signed an MoU with Vision India for providing job opport ties to the youth of J&K. The programme aims at connecting various corporate, national and multi-national companies with the youth of J&K, having skill and employability. Arun Kumar Mehta, Chief Secretary, while speaking on the occasion, termed the AVSAR initiative as historic and unprecedented. He complimented the team of Mission Youth led by Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, CEO Mission Youth, and impressed upon him to explore the possibility of connecting every employable youth with job opport ties. Choudhary briefed the chair about the aims and targets set up under the AVSAR initiative of Mission Youth. He informed that placement cells would be established to facilitate the youth. VBH RJ