416,000 people employed in Kazakhstan as part of employment program

AKIPRESS.COM - Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Berdibek Saparbayev told about the implementation of the Enbek State Program for the Development of Productive Employment and Mass Entrepreneurship in 2019, the press service of the PM said.
"Its main goal is to help Kazakhstanis in finding jobs. This includes training, the provision of skills in a particular specialty, grants, microloans at low interest rates," Saparbayev said.
Within 11 months of the current year, measures to promote employment and business development covered 623 thousand Kazakhstanis, including 416 thousand people were employed, 131 thousand people were trained, 46 thousand grants and microloans were issued. 176 billion tenge were allocated for these purposes.
Also in the framework of the third direction of the Enbek state program, relocation of citizens from labor-surplus regions - Mangystau, Kyzylorda, Zhambyl, Almaty, Turkistan regions, Nur-Sultan - to labor-deficient areas: Pavlodar, Kostanay, North Kazakhstan, East Kazakhstan. This year, about 9 thousand people were relocated from the southern regions of the country to the northern and eastern. To date, about 200 people have been relocated to Ekibastuz from Nur Sultan. They were provided with work and housing. Now this experience is planned to be extended to Akmola and Karaganda regions.