Srinagar: Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will inaugurate Kashmir’s first ever business process outsourcing (BPO) unit in Bandipora district on Sunday, reported the Press Trust of India.
Modi will visit to all three regions of Jammu and Kashmir on February 3 to lay foundation stones for host of projects.
“(The) Prime Minister will be inaugurating BPO in Bandipora on February three. This is the first BPO in this belt.
“The aim is to attract entrepreneurs, investors and MNCs in IT and BPOs to establish their business units…with ultimate objective of enhancing employment opportunities for the youth in the district and neighbouring districts,” Deputy Commissioner Bandipora Shahid Iqbal Choudhary told PTI.
The DC further said that the BPO will also provide an employment oriented investment atmosphere in Kashmir valley.
The IT enabled skills lab will train 600 educated youth every year for placement in BPOs and this will provide platform for establishment of more BPOs and attracting employment oriented investment.
It will provide jobs to minimum 215 local professionals and will also serve as a model for replication to attract job-oriented investment in Kashmir valley for local youth, Choudhary said.
IT enabled skills lab will be ready for operations and first batch will be inducted in Mid-February 2019 for training.
The Joint Resistance Leadership however, has called for a complete shutdown against Modi’s visit.
“…and give a message to the whole world that Kashmiris despite all tyranny and oppression by Indian state will not stop their peaceful struggle for right to self-determination and rather will continue this struggle at every cost,” JRL said in a statement.
AIP Chief and former lawmaker Engineer Rashid, in a statement had said that his party will receive Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi with black flags to protest the “colonial mindset” of New Delhi and the “loot of the state’s resources.”
