Aizawl: Mizoram chief minister Lalduhoma on Tuesday urged the youths of the state to prepare themselves to work in foreign countries.
While inaugurating Zofa Agency, a Union Ministry of External Affairs approved private placement agency in Aizawl, Lalduhoma said that the unemployment rate in the country is high because of the country’s poor economy.
He encouraged the youths to focus on skill development and go for even low-paying jobs.
He also said that the youths should also be prepared to do both high and low-paying jobs abroad.
The chief minister said that his government is finding an opportunity to send the Mizo youths to work in the southern part of the country, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
To tackle unemployment problems and to ensure that the Mizo youths find jobs outside the state, the Mizoram Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Act was passed in 2015, he said.
Under this act 27 private placement agencies were issued licenses to send unemployed youths for jobs outside the state, he said.
However, the license of the private placement agencies was cancelled this year for sending youths to foreign countries beyond the ambit of Mizoram Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Act, he said.
He said that 29 people were arrested for sending unemployed youths to foreign countries and the prosecution order is awaited from the Centre.
Police said that more than 30 Mizo youths have been rescued from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman recently.
Efforts are on to rescue three Mizo women stranded in Syria, they said.