Over 5.4 lakh young people who cleared Haryana's Common Eligibility Test are now at the centre of a high-stakes employment drive — and Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has set a hard deadline of 1 November to get them into the system. Chairing a review meeting of the Employment, Skill Development and Industrial Training Department on 29 July 2026, Saini directed officials to sharply accelerate job creation and skilling under the Viksit Bharat Vision 2047 framework.

Haryana cracks the national top-10 on Viksit Bharat rankings

Saini opened the meeting with a marker of progress: under the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Yojana, Haryana has secured a place among the top-10 states in India. That ranking is now the floor, not the ceiling. The Chief Minister's directive was clear — the pace of employment generation and skills training must accelerate, not plateau.

Fatehabad regional centre, AI training, and new job avenues

The meeting drilled into three concrete expansion moves. First, a regional centre of Shri Vishwakarma Skill University will be established in Fatehabad, extending the institution's vocational reach into a district that has historically lagged in skilling infrastructure. Second, the state will roll out AI-based skill training — a signal that Haryana intends to future-proof its youth pipeline beyond conventional trades. Third, officials were asked to map and create fresh employment avenues aligned with emerging industry demand.

Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, set up by the Haryana government to align vocational education with live industry needs, has been the state's flagship institution for this push. A Fatehabad centre would bring that ecosystem closer to rural and semi-urban youth who currently have to travel for quality training.

The CET safety net: 100 hours of work — or a stipend

The sharpest directive of the meeting targets the 5,40,428 CET-qualified youth identified in a state survey. Saini ordered that each of them be provided 100 hours of work. The guarantee does not stop there: any candidate who remains unemployed for two years will be entitled to a stipend under the Sashakt Yuva Yojana — Haryana's scheme designed to provide financial support to eligible jobless youth while they remain in the employment queue.

Benefits under both tracks are to be ensured from 1 November. The combination of a short-term work assignment and a longer-term stipend fallback creates a two-layer safety net that the state is betting will keep skilled, certified youth from falling through the cracks between qualification and placement.

What the November deadline means

Haryana's pattern over recent years has been to announce targeted youth-employment interventions and then face scrutiny over delivery timelines. The explicit 1 November rollout date raises the political and administrative stakes — it gives both officials and observers a fixed accountability moment. With over half a million CET passers in the pipeline, even modest implementation gaps will be visible. The Fatehabad skill centre and the AI training module will take longer to materialise, but the stipend and work-hour directives are immediate commitments that the state now owns publicly.