Actor Sonu Sood Launches ‘Pravasi Rojgar’ app to help migrants find job opportunities across India
- In order to help the migrant workers find right job opportunities in various sectors across the country, a new ‘Pravasi Rojgar’ app has been launched.
- This online platform is the brainchild of Bollywood actor Sonu Sood, who launched the free online platform on 23 July 2020 in Mumbai.
- The initiative will be supported by community outreach in the villages to find the right employment opportunities for migrant workers in different parts of the country.
- The app features job opportunities from over 500 reputed companies related to construction, apparel, healthcare, engineering, BPOs, security, automobile, e-commerce and logistics sectors.
- Support centres, with a 24-hour helpline, have been set up in seven cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Ahmedabad and Thiruvananthapuram.
- Apart from this, the platform will also offer specific job training programmes like spoken English.