After successful Bio-Metric attendance for staff, Punjab Technical Education department on Saturday said Bio-Metric attendance for students would be in place by November all Government technical education institutes of Punjab.

Presiding over a review meeting of the Department, Technical Education Minister Charnajit Singh Channi directed all officials and Principals to make all necessary arrangements for Bio-Metric attendance of officials in all Government Polytechnic Colleges. The department has successfully implemented Bio-Metric attendance for the staff of all the technical education institutes.

Channi also shared an important information that the tendering process for installing CCTV Cameras in all Government Polytechnic Colleges & ITIs has been completed and these would be installed in all institutes before year end. He said that all exams of the coming semester would be held under the surveillance of CCTV Cameras.

Earlier the Minister held meeting with the Vice Chancellors of the universities of the state and reviewed the arrangements for the 5th Mega Job Fairs which would be organised from September 9 to 30. The Minister claimed that more than 2 lakh jobs would be offered during these Mega Job Fairs under 'Ghar Ghar Rozgar' scheme which is the flagship initiative of the Punjab Government.

These Job fairs would be held at 75 venues across the state and Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh would hand over job letters to the selected Youth at Ropar on October 5.

 The Minister said that the State Government aims to provide quality technical education to the youth in order to make them skilled as per international standards. This would make them capable enough to get jobs easily anywhere around the globe.

Earlier, Channi held separate review meetings with Vice Chancellors of Universities, Principals of Polytechnic and Engineering colleges and Principals of ITIs regarding Mega   Job Fairs.