Mangaluru : About 213 private firms from India and eight firms from z are taking part in the Mangaluru Udyoga Mela on November 19 and 20.

The job fair, scheduled to be held at Canara Engineering College at Benjanapadavu on the outskirts of Mangaluru, will be inaugurated by Ramon Magsaysay awardee Harish Hande at 9.30 am.

Briefing mediapersons here on Wednesday, Deputy Commissioner (DC) A B Ibrahim said that a total of 1,800 job aspirants have benefited from the career guidance programmes organised for job aspirants so far.

A total of 12,845 job aspirants have registered for the Mangaluru Udyoga Mela, of which 10,635 are from Karnataka, 1,328 from Kerala, 296 from Andhra Pradesh, 158 from Tamil Nadu, 73 from Uttar Pradesh, 71 from Maharashtra, 47 from Bihar, 25 from Goa, 32 from Jharkhand, 31 from Madhya Pradesh, 37 from Odisha, 28 from West Bengal and 84 from other states.

About 7,361 job aspirants have registered from Dakshina Kannada district alone. About 14,300 candidates are expected to take part in the two-day mela, he added.

The officer said that more than 7,000 positions are being offered by the companies participating in the Udyoga mela. The district administration has made all the arrangements for the success of Udyoga mela.

Spot registration counters, information centre, online examination facility, aptitude test facility, interview rooms, group discussion facility, presentation hall, employability enhancement centre, drinking water facility, toilet facility, first aid centre and fire tenders have been arranged at the venue.

About 800 volunteers are trained to assist the whole process. The DC said that buses have been arranged to take the candidates from Pumpwell, B C Road, Maripalla Cross and Gurpura Kaikamba to the venue on Thursday and Friday. No fee will be charged from the job aspirants, he added.

Coordinator Vivek Alva said that the aspirants should get 10 copies of their bio data,
at least 10 copies of passport-size photographs and at least 10 photocopies of degree certificates and marks cards, along with the original, while attending the job mela.

The job aspirants will be segregated as per the company’s specified requirements.

The companies have specified the requirements from the candidates, including their qualifications and the skill sets that the companies expect in their prospective employees. Also, the data of the candidates would be supplied to the companies as per their requirements throughout the year, he said.

Alva said that colour coding is done, based on the candidates’ qualifications, like SSLC, PUC, ITI, diploma, graduation, post-graduation, medical, paramedical and engineering graduates. A colour card – based on the qualification – will be issued to every registered candidate at their respective qualification counters and the same colours will be displayed on the company banners based on the company’s manpower requirements.

This will help in overcoming the confusion at the venue. Some of the participating firms are Toyota Kirloskar Motors, Titan, TCS, IBM, Bombay Rayon Fashions Limited (Process Plant), MCF, L&T, S S Infrastructure, Prestige, Biocon Ltd, BASF, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Narayana Hridayalaya, Aditya Birla Group, Volvo, Tata Group and others. Many opportunities await BCom, BSc, ITI, Diploma, nusring, MBA, MSW, chemical engineering, hotel management graduates.