Unemployment becomes pressing issue for candidates in Haryana
Gurugram: High rates of unemployment in the state is a reality that is now being acknowledged not only by the opposition parties but even the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The impact of the challenge of not creating enough jobs and also the closing down of industrial units due to economic slowdown is also being felt in Gurugram that contributes 60 per cent of the states' revenue.
The recent case cutting down the workdays in Maruti factories of Gurugram and Manesar and its adverse effects on job losses in auto ancillary units reflected how weak economic quarters were hurting the automobile industry. However, it is not only the auto and the auto ancillary units that are complaining of weak business but even the garment export units. It is estimated that there are over nine hundred units that employ over one-and-a-half lakh people. The narrative of job losses and economic slowdown is now being raised not only by the regional leaders but even the national leaders like former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who also raised the issue in his address to voters of Nuh near Gururgam.
Dushyant Chautala of JanNayak Janta Party (JJP) is now aggressively campaigning that the majority of jobs generates in the private sector in Gurugram should go to locals than people coming from the other state. Chautala claimed that there are 17 lakh private jobs that are there in Gurugram in which the local population has not been given preference. He has strongly advocated for the reservation of private jobs for the local population. In the past, the 31-year-old JJP leader and his supports have also held a protest march on the issue.
Ranbir Singh Rathee, who is the AAP candidate from Gurugram, said that more job avenues can be created if there is an investment in the primary healthcare and educational systems. Invoking the service delivery system that has been introduced in Delhi, Rathee asserts that a similar model if implemented effectively can bring in more jobs.
Interestingly, the BJP government in its manifesto has now mentioned that more preference will be given to the locals in the government jobs.
In one of his last press conferences as the Chief Minister ML Khattar that the process of creating identity cards for each and every family was being undertaken by the state government. The purpose of this exercise according to Chief Minister Khattar was for the state government to know about the financial situation of the families in the state so that the required job can be provided to them by the government.
Manish Yadav who is the Badshahpur candidate states that besides opening more job skill centres he will try in trying to create a favourable environment for setting more startup centres in the city.
