Employment exchanges working under the deptt. of Training and Employment offers job opportunities to the job seeker candidates registered with them against the vacancies notified to them by the employers. Along with that adequate career guidance is also provided to the job seekers.Employers from pvt. Sector are registered and invited by deptt. to conduct campus placement so that maximum no. of candidates could be provided suitable employment opportunities matching upto their academic qualifications.

The main aim of this scheme is to organize career guidance camps, so that jobseekers could be provided suitable assistance in selecting a career path / academic course to chalk out a livelihood for themselves in future.Vocational Guidance Program:-This is being carried on in accordance to the rules and regulation mentioned in the national employment service manual of Govt. of India.Under this scheme various factors like; candidate’s socio–economic background, academic standards, aptitude And job scenario are kept in mind while providing adequate guidance / counseling to him /her. An intensive contact program is being run with schools and colleges under the district wise jurisdiction of each employment exchange to make it more successful.

To fulfill the above mentioned objectives a carrer counselling cell has been setup in Directorate of Training and Employment U.P. in the year 2006-2007; whose primary aim is to allocate targets to all the employment exchanges for counseling and providing them further help to attain the allotted targets from the year 2008-2009 a massive counseling program is being run by regional / district employment offices and University employment bureau under the nomenclature of “AVSAR” to achieve the desired goal. Every year now the deptt. is organizing the career counseling camps as per schedule namely:-

• AVSAR DIVAS - January of every year.
• Samadhaan Avsar – From 15 April to 31 July.
• Apna Vyavasay chuniye Pakhwara – From 15 Aug to 31 Aug.
• Counselling Seminaar / Workshops – From September to December.

Campus placement to the registered candidates is provided via job fairs namely Rojgar mela by deptt. of employment employers from Pvt. Sector are invited and campus interview are organizes to help job seekers get a suitable job / guidance under one root.

Firstly the job seeker has to register him / her at the official portal of the deptt. similarly employers too need to register them at the portal and then after the employer uploads vacancies of his establishment on the portal. A system generated e-mail and sms would reach to all the registered candidates whose qualification experience and skill match the notified vacancy. So that job seekers can apply upto a desired no. on the basis of first come first serve. The list of applied candidates will be visible on the employer and admin panel and the employer how can shortlist desired no. of candidates from this list. An e-mail / sms from concerned employment officer will be to such shortlisted candidates informing them about the date time and venue of job fair.After interview / test the employer will furnish the list of selected candidates to the employment office who , now would upload it on the portal.

Coaching Cum Guidance Centre have been established in 52 district of state. The principal motive of this scheme is to provide training in language, Secretarial practice, computer, shorthand / typing and general studies to the weaker section of society namely SC /ST and OBC candidates absolutely free of cost to enhance their employability after 10+2 and helping them to chalk out a career in various clerical level competitions.

The Career counseling cell at Directorate of Training and Employment U.P. Lucknow and District Employment Office Ghaziabad have been upgraded and developed as Model Career Centre as per the directives issued by Director general, Employment and Training, New Delhi. The proposal of above mentioned Model Career centre has been accepted by govt. of India.

Model Career Centre will provide necessary information / existance, library facilities are the candidates studying in various Institution across the state; i.e. The centre would provide information about the prevailing employment scenario and upcoming occupations also.

Employment exchange as part of their regular activities are to collect labour market information about newly emerging areas and areas going out of existence so that job seekers can be guided for the gainful activities.Quaterly information is being collected from the registered employers about the vacancies arising in their establishments. Currently this data is collected from all public sector establishment coming in the jurisdiction of each district and only those private sector establishments who, have 25 and more people employed with them. Such information is collected on the prescribed proforma called ER-I mentioned in section -5 of the Employment Exchange(Compulsory notification of the vacancy Act 1959). It is manadatory to send this information to the local employment Exchange by all the employers falling in its jurisdiction as per their classification the data of all the work force in these establishments is collected according to their educational and technical abilities.

1) This Act may be called the Employment Exchanges ( Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act,1959. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force in a State on such data as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf for such State and different dates may be appointed for different States or for different areas of a State. 2. Definitions. – In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-- (a) “ appropriate Government” means – (1) in relation to – (a) any establishment of any railway, major port, mine or oil-field, or (b) any establishment owned, controlled or managed by – (i) the Central Government or a department of the Central Government, (ii) a company in which not less than fifty one percent of the share capital is held by the Central Government or partly by the Central Government and partly by one or more State Governments, (iii) a corporation ( including a co-operative society ) established by or under a Central Act which is owned, controlled or managed by the Central Government, the Central Government; (2) in relation to any other establishment, the Government of the State in which that other establishment is situated; (b) ‘employee’ means any person who is employed in an establishment to do any work for remuneration; (c) “ employer” means any person who employs one or more other person to do any work in an establishment for remuneration and includes any person entrusted with the supervision and control of employees in such establishment; Omitted by Act 51 of 1970 1 NESM Vol.III/EE(CNV)Act (d) “employment exchange” means any office or place established and maintained by the Government for the collection and furnishing of information, either by the keeping of registers or otherwise, respecting--- (i ) persons who seek to engage employees. (ii) persons who seek employment, and (iii) vacancies to which persons seeking employment, may be appointed ; (e) “establishment” means— ( a) any office, or (b) any place where any industry, trade, business or occupation is carried on; (f) “ establishment in public sector” means an establishment owned, controlled or managed by ---

(1) the Government or a department of the Government (2) a Government company as defined in Section 617 of the Companies Act,1956 ( 1 of 1956) ; (3) a corporation (including a co-operative society ) established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act, which is owned, controlled or managed by the Government; (4) a local authority; (g) “ establishment in private sector” means an establishment which is not an establishment in public sector and where ordinarily twenty-five or more persons are employed to work for remuneration; (h) “ prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (i) “unskilled office work” means work done in an establishment by any of the following categories of employees namely--- (1) Daftri; (2) Jamadar, orderly and peon; (3) Dusting man or farash; (4) Bundle or record lifter; (5) Process server; (6) Watchman; (7) Sweeper; (8) Any other employee doing any routine or unskilled work which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be unskilled office work. 2 NESM Vol.III/EE(CNV)Act 3. Act not to apply in relation to certain vacancies.—(1) This act shall not apply in relation to vacancies, -- (a) in any employment in agriculture ( including horticulture) in any establishment in private sector other than employment as agricultural or farm machinery operatives; (b) in any employment in domestic service; (c) in any employment the total duration of which is less than three months; (d) in any employment to do unskilled office work; (e) in any employment connected with the staff of Parliament. (3) Unless the Central Government otherwise directs by notification in Official Gazette in this behalf, this Act shall not apply in relation to : (a) vacancies which are proposed to be filled through promotion or by absorption of surplus staff of any branch or department of the same establishment or on the result of any examination conducted or interview held by, or on the recommendation of, any independent agency, such as the Union or a State Public Service Commission and the like; (b) vacancies in an employment which carries a remuneration of less than sixty rupees in a month. (4) Notification of vacancies to employment exchanges.--- (1) After the commencement of this Act in any state or area thereof, the employer in every establishment in public sector in that state or area shall, before filling up any vacancy in any employment in that establishment, notify that vacancy to such employment exchanges as may be prescribed. (2) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, require that from such date as may be specified in the notification, the employer in every establishment in private sector or every establishment pertaining to any class or category of establishments in private sector shall, before filling up any vacancy in any employment in that establishment, notify that vacancy to such employment exchanges as may be prescribed, and the employer shall thereupon comply with such requisition. (3) The manner in which the vacancies referred to sub-section (1) or subsection (2) shall be notified to the employment exchanges and the particulars of employment in which such vacancies have occurred or are about to occur shall be such as may be prescribed.

(2) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, require that from such date as may be specified in the notification, the employer in every establishment in private sector or every establishment pertaining to any class or category of establishments in private sector shall, before filling up any vacancy in any employment in that establishment, notify that vacancy to such employment exchanges as may be prescribed, and the employer shall thereupon comply with such requisition. (3) The manner in which the vacancies referred to sub-section (1) or subsection (2) shall be notified to the employment exchanges and the particulars of employment in which such vacancies have occurred or are about to occur shall be such as may be prescribed. (4) Nothing in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be deemed to impose any obligation upon any employer to recruit any person through the employment exchange to fill any vacancy merely because that vacancy has been notified under any of those sub-section. 3 NESM Vol.III/EE(CNV)Act 5. Employers to furnish information and returns in prescribed form.--- (1) After the commencement of this Act in any State or area thereof, the employers in every establishment in public sector in that State or area shall furnish such information or return as may be prescribed in relation to vacancies that have occurred or are about to occur in that establishment, to such employment exchanges as may be prescribed. (2) The appropriate Government may, be notification in the Official Gazette, require that from such date as may be specified in the notification, the employer in every establishment in private sector or every establishment pertaining to any class or category of establishments in private sector shall furnish such information or return as may be prescribed in relation to vacancies that have occurred or are about to occur in that establishment to such employment exchanges as may be prescribed, and the employer shall thereupon comply with such requisition. (3) The form in which, and the intervals of time at which, such information or return shall be furnished and the particulars which they shall contain shall be such as may be prescribed. 6. Right of access to records or documents.--- Such Officer of Government as may be prescribed in this behalf, or any person authorised by him in writing, shall have access to any relevant record or document in the possession of any employer required to furnish any information or returns under Section 5 and may enter at any reasonable time any premises where he believes such record or document to be and inspect or take copies of relevant records or documents or ask any question necessary for obtaining any information required under that section.

7. Penalties.-- (1) If any employer fails to notify to the employment exchanges prescribed for the purpose any vacancy in contravention of sub-section (1) or subsection (2) of section 4, he shall be punishable for the first offence with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and for every subsequent offence with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees. (2) If any person – (a) required to furnish any information or return- (i) refuses or neglects to furnish such information or returns, or (ii) furnishes or causes to be furnished any information or return which he knows to be false, or (iii) refuses to answer, or gives a false answer to, any question necessary for obtaining any information required to be furnished under Section 5, or 4 NESM Vol.III/EE(CNV)Act (b) impedes the right of access to relevant records or documents or the right of entry conferred by Section 6, he shall be punishable for the first offence with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees and for every subsequent offence with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees. 8. Cognizance of offences.No prosecution for an offence under this Act shall be instituted except by, or with the sanction of, such officer of Government as may be prescribed in this behalf or any person authorised by that officer in writing. 9. Protection of action taken in good faith.- No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act. 10. Power to make rules.- (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette and subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely- (a) the employment exchange or exchanges to which, the form and manner in which, and the time within which, vacancies shall be notified, and the particulars of employments in which such vacancies have occurred or are about to occur; (b) the form and manner in which and the intervals at which, information and returns required under Section 5 shall be furnished, and the particulars which they shall contain; (c) the officers by whom and the manner in which the right of access to documents and the right of entry conferred by Section 6 may be exercised; (d) any other matter which is to be, or may be, prescribed under this Act. [(3)] Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; 5 NESM Vol.III/EE(CNV)Act so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule. Substituted by Act 4 of 1986 with effect from 15/5/86. ( Act. 4 : Delegated Legislation Provisions ( Amendment) Act , 1985. 6 NESM Vol.III/EE(CNV)Act.