Sonu Sood launches app to help migrants find job opportunities

MUMBAI : Actor Sonu Sood on Wednesday launched an app to offer support to workers in finding right job opportunities in various sectors across the country.

Sood, who catapulted to the national spotlight for his work in helping migrants reach their homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic, has come out with a free of cost online platform called 'Pravasi Rojgar', which will provide all the necessary information and right linkages to find jobs.

The 47-year-old actor said while arranging travel for the migrants, their conversations would often revolve around how they were looking for the right work opportunity amid the pandemic.

"Lot of thinking, planning and preparation have gone into designing this initiative over the last few months, in order to ensure that it is holistic and builds on the work already being done in the country.

hyder"Extensive consultations have been held with top organisations that're involved at the



grassroots level in skilling and placing the youth below the poverty line, NGOs, philanthropic organisations, government functionaries, strategy consultants, technology start ups and above all the returned migrants whom I have helped," Sood said in a statement.

The activity will be supported by network outreach in the towns to locate the correct business open doors for transient laborers in various pieces of the nation. 

As per the discharge, the online stage has more than 500 presumed organizations identified with development, clothing, social insurance, designing, BPOs, security, car, web based business and coordinations divisions, offering openings for work. 

'Pravasi Rojgar' will likewise be extending to explicit employment opportunity preparing programs like communicated in English.

A 24x7 helpline have been set up in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Ahmedabad and Thiruvananthapuram.