About

The Employment Service came into existence in India under the stress of post-war demobilization. Towards the end of the Second World War, the need for a machinery which could handle orderly re-absorption of civil life, of a large number of service personnel and war workers who were about to be released as keenly felt. Having regard to the complexity of the problem and in order to ensure uniformity in policies and effective co-ordination of efforts it was considered necessary that the proposed machinery be directed and controlled by the Central government. In accordance with a scheme that was agreed upon by the Central and State Governments, the Directorate General of Resettlement and Employment (D. G. R. & E) was setup in July 1945 and Employment Exchanges were gradually opened in several parts of the country.

Currently The department administers the Employment Exchanges (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959, which is a Central statute and the Rules framed thereunder. At present, 25 employment exchanges are functioning in the State which are made up of State Employment Exchange , Divisional Employment Exchanges, District/Town Employment Exchanges, Rural Employment Exchanges, Scheduled Caste (SC) Cell at State Employment Exchange, Physically Handicapped (PH) Cell at State Employment Exchange, and University Employment Information and Guidance Bureaux.

The Employment Exchanges perform mainly three types of functions viz. Registration of applicants and their placement, providing vocational guidance to job seekers and collect employment market information data from establishments in the organized sector. The Employment Exchanges are rendering free services to employers as well as to job seekers.

Mission

Employment Service is the E-Governance Initiative taken by the Government of Uttarakhand to provide appropriate employment opportunity to the unemployed youth in uttarakhand.