Unemployment rate among the youth in Kerala is huge and there is a need to make the state more attractive for its younger generation to prevent them from going outside for jobs, Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor said.
Mannam Jayanthi is held to celebrate the birth anniversary of NSS founder and social reformer Mannath Padmanabhan.
He said only Jammu and Kashmir was in such a situation, but that was due to militancy problems there.
Tharoor said 3.5 lakh professional and technical job-seekers, including 9,000 medical graduates, were registered as job-seekers in the southern state’s EMPLOYMENT exchange.
Of the 3.5 lakh job-seekers, around 71 per cent have ITI certificates, he added.