Local bodies should be job creators: Minister

‘Jobs should be ensured for at least 5 out of 1,000 people in the area’

Making a call to local bodies to reorient themselves as job creators and employers, Minister for Local Self Governments M.V.Govindan said that they should focus on programmes for generating employment. He was interacting with people’s representatives and officials from local bodies from various districts as part of a series of programmes of the Minister directly interacting with local bodies and evaluating their performance.