Kapu Corpn helping youth land jobs

Vijayawada: Kapu Corporation chairman Chalamalasetti Ramanujaya said thousands of Kapu, Telaga, Balija and other candidates who were trained at skill centres of the corporation have been working in major cities like Mumbai and Bangalore.

Highlights:

• Chairman Ramanujaya says youngsters trained in corporation’s skill centres are working in cities like Mumbai and Bangalore
• 400 students from Kapu, Balija, Telaga and Ontari were selected for foreign education in the first phase, Rs 70 cr spend for them

Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Ramanujaya said that with the encouragement of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, people belonging to Kapu, Balija, Telaga and Ontari castes had been availing the benefits under various welfare schemes, specially introduced for them and youth were getting opportunity to study abroad.

The corporation was taking help of 10 corporate groups for training the youth and guiding them in getting jobs, he added. The Kapu Corporation chairman further said that the select corporate groups would pick up candidates themselves and train them appropriately in the skill they are fit. Under foreign education programme, a target of 750 candidates was set for the current year, he said.

Elaborating on foreign education, Ramanujaya said that a total of 400 candidates were selected under first phase and the government had spent Rs 70 crore for their studies. Interviews were held for another 180 candidates.

He announced that the selection of Kapu students for foreign education would take place at Siddartha auditorium here on July 27.

The female candidates trained at the corporation training centres were being given monthly stipend of Rs 4,500, he said and added that the corporation had created 5,000 entrepreneurs.

Claiming that the Chief Minister had promised upliftment of BCs and had accordingly created the corporation for which the government sanctioned Rs 2,100 crore so far, the Kapu Corporation chief said that Kapus had been hailing Naidu for giving an opportunity to their children to fly abroad for studies.

Even rickshaw-pullers in Kapu community had been seeing their children off to foreign countries for education. On the other hand, 1.25 lakh Kapu youth had been sanctioned loans under self-employment. This move had indirectly helped about 4.16 lakh Kapus, he explained.