Explanation:

It is operated by the Directorate General of Employment and Training, Ministry of Labour, and it runs several Employment Exchanges in order to bring about a better matching of supply-demand of work opportunities. The other objective is to create a requisite data base for manpower planning and management, career counselling and vocational guidance with a view to effectively guiding the job-seekers.

Functions (other than those mentioned in the question):

• Collect comprehensive Employment Market Information on a quarterly basis
• Conduct area specific specialized study/surveys to have an assessment of skills available and the marketable skills required for encouraging the job-seekers for self-employment particularly in rural informal sector

Some of the State Governments arrange disbursement of unemployment allowance to certain specific categories of jobseekers out of their own resources through the employment exchanges as registered with them.