Budget: Interns to be hired in new scheme.

The government will enter into partnerships with private companies so that experienced graduates can be hired to gain skills and experience. In the budget estimates read on Thursday by The cabinet secretary for Treasury, Henry Rotich, private companies that take in fresh university graduates and
train them will get tax rebates. Some of the interns will be absorbed in the civil service and the state parastatals. Unemployment among the youth hovers around 40 percent, and even youth that have degrees are increasingly finding it hard to get quality jobs.

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