Israel conducts recruitment drive in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana as labour shortage hits amid war with Hamas

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Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh Government has begin a one-week recruitment drive at the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Aliganj. Israel plans to recruit tens of thousands of Indians at a time when Palestinians who have long played a crucial role in Israeli construction and other sectors are being barred from the country.

According to a Times Of India report, over seven days the Israeli team in Uttar Pradesh is set to test at least 4,600 candidates for jobs that include-Bar bending, mason, tiler, and shuttering carpenter. The ToI report quoted an Indian government official who informed that the process of providing employment to construction workers in Israel was being taken care of by NSDC International, an agency working under the Union ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship from India and population, immigration and border authority (PIBA), Israel.

The report details the PIBA schedule. This includes testing of skills of -629 workers from Agra, Kanpur and Lucknow was done on 23 January -585 workers from Azamgarh and Banda divisions were examined on 24 January -563 workers from Bareilly, Jhansi, Noida, Moradabad and Devipatan divisions will be tested on 25 January -656 workers from Varanasi, Mirzapur, Meerut and Ghaziabad on 27 January -877 workers of Gorakhpur division on 28 January -739 workers of Ayodhya and Saharanpur divisions on 29 January -603 workers of Aligarh, Basti and Prayagraj divisions on 30 January Earlier this month, Israeli officials conducted a similar drive in Haryana.