11,000 jobs created in NKR this year

“Today, the Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population Tamara Duissenova arrived in our region on a working visit. During the visit, the topic of conversation was the increase in incomes of the population and employment,” Kumar Aksakalov, Akim of the North Kazakhstan region, wrote on his page on the social network.

This year it is planned to create 13 thousand jobs in the region. To date, 11 thousand jobs have been created. 72% of them are permanent.

Young people are involved in work under the program "First place of work", "Youth practice" and "Contract of generations". More than 3,500 young people have been employed since the beginning of the year. By the end of the year, the goal is 6,000.

As part of the National Entrepreneurship Development Project, funding for employment increased 4 times, from 1.4 billion tenge to 6 billion tenge.