The Tamil Nadu department of employment and training is planning to create a job portal and for the first time in the country, the database will be made available to private recruiters. The nodal agency for IT in the state, Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot) is working with the employment exchange to finalise the modalities of the project.

“The exchange has about 60 lakh profiles. Almost all the district-level exchanges have been computerised and now we are planning to create a common web-based portal such as a Naukri.com. IT services company Emergys has been selected for the project,” said a senior official who did not want to be named. The portal is expected to go live in May.

Unlike private job portals, the government website would provide only profiles that have been validated, the official said. The processes in the employment exchange take a lot of time but every profile is meticulously checked for its genuineness, he added.

Most people do not register in the employment exchange mainly because of the delay in processing. After full automation of the process, the government’s portal will be the most authentic database for recruiters, he said.

For now, there is no clarity on the fee to be charged. According to the guidelines of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), governments cannot charge a fee for this service. However, the departments are working out means to prevent misuse of the database, he said.

Elcot has a data centre at Perungudi near Chennai with a data recovery centre in Madurai.