Bangalore: Karnataka Government has hit upon a novel idea of setting up "Employment Parks" with private participation to provide jobs to unemployed, Minister for Labour A Tanvir Sait said today (Sep 22, 2004).

The Employment Parks, a Government initiative of the first-of-its-kind in the country, aimed at not only registration of job seekers but also study the demand of various industries, he told reporters.

The Parks, apart from performing the role of placement services, scout for indirect employment and also act as a regulatory body to check cheating of the gullible unemployed.

Sait said the Government was in negotiations with Federation of Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) and Karnataka Small Scale Industries Association (KASSIA) to give a shape to the new initiative.

He said efforts were on to bring in private investment for establishing these parks, which are proposed at Bangalore, Mysore and Mangalore, which offered potential for overseas employment.

There were also plans to set up a Overseas Placement Cell, which would address the problems of securing Visas and migration clearance at a single window, Sait said.

The Government was also thinking of extending social security schemes like Employees State Insurance to contract employees recruited by the private sector, he said.

Even the recruitments by the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) would also be brought under the ambit of the employment parks, he said.