Urban Mirror Correspondent
New Delhi, February 11: The Lok Gathbandhan Party (LGP) today said that the decision of the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh to reserve 70% jobs for local youths in industrial and other commercial sectors, which have availed the incentives of the state government, will not help solve the unemployment crisis. The LGP said this is also a regressive measure in the country’s federal structure.
The spokesman of the party said here on Monday that in the past such quotas have been introduced from time to time by several states like Karnataka (100%), Gujarat (85%), Maharashtra (80%) and Tamil Nadu (50%) but all of them miserably failed to implement the announcement. The spokesman said MP government’s purely politically motivated measures is also destined to meet the same fate because of reluctance of the industries to carry out the policy and an absence of enforcement mechanism in the government. The spokesman said at a time when the Good and Services Tax (GST) has dismantled fiscal barriers to create a common national market, the MP government’s move to create a barrier for labour market is not justified. The spokesman further said such a measure cannot be a solution to the unemployment problem, which has assumed serious dimension during the last five years, as provincial rationing of job would also adversely affect the investment in the private sector. Since all states are intertwined economically, the spokesman said employment is part of this national system which cannot be ring-fenced from rest of the country.
The spokesman said dilution of hiring standard to meet the state’s job quota criteria had also failed to take off during the previous 15-year BJP regime in MP as it remained on paper and the state lacked investments. The spokesman said nationally job crisis is acute and MP government by erecting wall could further worsen it. The spokesman said if other states begin to follow this rout it could lead to serious social problem and workers from MP would be unsafe in other states.
