Telangana’s Digital Employment Exchange Registers 1,000 Firms

Speedy Summary

• DEET Telangana, the digital employment exchange by the State government, aims to facilitate job opportunities for rural youth, companies across industries, and skill training institutions.
• Over 76,000 jobseekers enrolled on the platform this year; 9,952 active vacancies were listed.
• Thus far, 6,657 candidates have been shortlisted for positions while 62 have already been hired through DEET.
• DEET serves as a resource for private sector jobs in industries like IT, manufacturing, services and finance. Job seekers can register via deet.telangana.gov.in to access opportunities with over 1,007 companies.
• Aiming to expand its outreach extensively across rural Telangana: plans include engaging with colleges statewide for full enrolment (targeting three lakh registrations by December) and signing MoUs with at least ten premium skill training institutions soon.
• Strategic collaborations are planned between government agencies like TASK (Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge), Young India Skills University alongside non-governmental skilling centers to broaden opportunities for jobseekers.

Indian Opinion Analysis
The DEET initiative reflects an important shift towards addressing employment challenges in TelanganaS private sector amidst limited openings in public employment. Its focus on fast-tracking recruitment aligns well with economic realities of growing demand from firms expanding operations locally. With targeted strategies like collegiate partnerships and memorandums of agreement on skilling institutions aimed appropriately-engaging Rural networks etc