Samagra Shiksha Nagaland organises state-level job fair in Kohima.
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DIMAPUR — A state-level Job Fair 2025, organised by the Samagra Shiksha Nagaland, Department of School Education, was held at TM Government Higher Secondary School, Kohima, on December 12, to empower students by providing employability skills through vocational education.
State Mission Director, Samagra Shiksha Nagaland, L Jamithung Lotha, in his inaugural speech, said that the department is up-skilling government school students, training and assessing them via Sector Skills Council, a DIPR report stated.
The job fair aims to connect skilled youth with employers, facilitating interaction between job market and students to gauge skill fit, the director said.
Lotha said this will have a tremendous effect in the later stages, and also informed that as per the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP), states skilling is a must for all students.
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He also informed that the objective of the job fair is to facilitate job placements, apprenticeships and internships, provide platforms for employers, strengthen industrial linkages, create awareness of career and security options with participation from local industries and various service sectors, on site interviews, counselling and information test on apprenticeship and entrepreneurship, improve employment pathways for vocational students, stronger industry, school partnerships, establishment of any employment facilitation mode for the state to have a far reaching effect for the students,
Joint Mission Director, Samagra Shiksha Nagaland, Dr. Chumbeni Kikon, in her introductory speech, said this is the first time that the Samagra Shiksha Nagaland is organising a state fair for vocational students and alumni to provide employment opportunities for students, and expressed her gratitude to the five vocational training partners and consultants for the job fair.
She highlighted that the job fair aims to provide career counselling to students, as well as school-level implementation of the ‘My Career Advisor App,’ a programme by the Ministry of Education Government, and called upon the students of class IX to class XII to avail the opportunity.
Kikon also said that apart from the skilling and skill specific training provided in the schools, students in the vocational education sector have been coming out with different innovative practices.
“Some schools have even displayed their products for sale in today’s fair,” she said.
She further informed that exhibition stalls has been setup by the 22 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya hostels in Nagaland and 13 residential hostels to exhibit their finished products.
The Samagra Shiksha job fair is providing vocational education in the following trades — tourism and hospitality, automotive, beauty and wellness, electronics and hardware, multi-skilling, retail, healthcare, plumbing, information technology/IT enabled services and agriculture.
The employers in the job fair includes Mevi Enterprise, Ilandlo Services Pvt. Ltd, Local Colour Nagaland, Café Eva, Talent Acquaintance, Hotel Polo Towers, Symbios Group, Vuto Hyndai, Matrix Enterprise, Fashion TV, The Green Caravan, The Baker’s Oven, New Gold Star Tyres, and YouthNet.
The fair was attended by students from various districts, including those from and around Kohima.