Over VND400 billion will be earmarked for the national programme on employment and vocational training in 2013 to improve the capacity and upgrade facilities at job centres across the country.

 About VND155 billion will go to 10 such centres under the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, according to the Employment Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

 More than VND390 billion has been invested in the programme from 2006-2012, a department representative said at a conference in Thai Binh province on November 10.

 At present 46 of job centres across the country have job trading floors. So far this year they have organized nearly 2,000 trading sessions at their headquarters and hundreds of others at their branches, serving as an effective link between labourers and employers.

 Participants at the conference also reviewed the application of information technology in the centres, including e-portals, unemployment insurance software and databases for the demand and supply of jobs.

 More than 34,600 people have registered as unemployed, and HCM City took the lead with nearly 8,800, followed by Hanoi with over 2,300.

 Currently, 29,300 people are receiving monthly unemployment premiums and 4,200 others have been introduced to new jobs./.

(CPV/VOVNews)