Srinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi would going to be inaugurated Business Process Outsourcing company (BPO) in Bandipora during his visit to the state this Sunday, February 3.With the promise of providing jobs and a better future for young men and women in the state, Jammu and Kashmir will soon be completed. The BPO has the potential of changing hundreds of lives in Bandipora - a district that has often been in the grips of terrorism and terror-related activities. The rural BPO here, therefore, would provide employment opportunities and the hope of a respectable livelihood to hundreds of young people.

As per plan out, the BPO would provide employment to 250 local youths in the first batch. Another 600 young people would be provided with IT-related training with the ultimate objective of completely eliminating unemployment in Bandipora. District commissioner Iqbal Chowdhary said that "Their plan was to create a BPO that would employ 250 educated youths. Kashmir does not have a situation which allows investment from the outside while demand for jobs has been rising, This is why we started this pilot project and it has received a good response." Chowdhary further added that  "The demand has been high and we do not have enough space yet.  After this, companies want that a bigger space is given so that an even bigger BPO can be established,".

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Going by the good response, there are also plans of opening such BPOs in other districts of the state in order to provide employment to locals. The presence of private sector enterprises in Jammu and Kashmir is almost negligible and employment opportunities for educated people in rural areas have so far been limited. With BPOs, the aim is to not only help these people earn money to take care of their needs but to equip more and more with the required skill sets for a more secure future.

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