More jobs for graduates

by Ranil Wijayapala

The Western Provincial Council will recruit those who had graduated before 2011 as Development Assistants and teachers to solve the unemployment problem among graduates, a spokesman for the Western Provincial Council told the Sunday Observer yesterday.

Western Province Chief Minister Prasanna Ranathunga has taken this decision following a proposal of Budget 2014 to recruit those who had graduated before 2011 to the public service this year.

The Western Provincial Council had provided jobs to over 12,000 unemployed graduates in the province during the past four-and-a-half years and absorbed them into the government service as Teachers and Development Assistants.

It recruited 7,500 graduates as teachers after conducting a examination in 2011.According to the Chief Minister these appointments were made to unemployed graduates apart from the 45,000 appointments by the Government for unemployed graduates around the country.The Western Provincial Council will call for applications from graduates soon to recruit them as teachers.