20000 jobs to be provided in the state sector by the end of this financial year in Himachal: Sukhu
Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu has said that the state government would provide to 20 thousand people by the end of this financial year.
The Chief Minister was replying to a discussion in the House regarding the dissolution of the Staff Selection Commission Hamirpur.
He said that the state government had promised to provide one lakh government and private jobs in one year and efforts are on to fulfill the employment guarantee.
He said that job avenues are being provided to only 20000 people in five years of previous years however this government would give 20000 employment avenues in the state sector and the government is going to end exploitive outsourced recruitment.
He said that many youths who were hired on an outsourced basis during previous rules could not continue their services as they were not qualified and recruited without professional qualifications against the rules.
He said that after the dissolution of the Staff Selection Commission, the government released the results of that recruitment code in which no papers were found to leak.
The recruitment of 539 posts of various postcodes of errestwhile Commission has been completed. The recruitment in various departments is being done for 1455 posts and recruitment advertisements have been issued to fill 1086 posts.
Apart from this, the recruitment process of HAS, Judicial Service, Principal College Cadre, PGT and conductors is ongoing. The process of filling 2061 posts in the Forest Department, 6500 posts of teachers in the Education Department, 1230 posts of Police, 984 posts of Patwari, 800 posts of Staff Nurses, 600 posts of Operation Theatre Assistant (OAT), and other allied health services to be started by March this year.
The Chief Minister said that his government took action on the complaints of paper leak in the Staff Selection Commission and dissolved it.
He said that 34 complaints were received in the Commission regarding the paper leak, out of which cases have been registered in 11 of them. In nine complaints, they were closed as the allegations were not proven.
He said that out of 65 accused, 34 were arrested in this case. The government would recruit 162 posts through the new Staff Selection Commission. Efforts are being made to conduct and set the question paper on the computerized bases
The Chief Minister said that the government will work on providing permanent employment to the youth by reducing outsourced recruitment and will also try to give priority to jobs based on their experience.
The Chief Minister said that outsourced employees are exploited and their future is not secure, in such a situation the government would work on providing them employment under a permanent policy. He said that the government is sympathetic towards outsourced employees and will help them within the ambit of the law.
The decision would be taken after taking legal opinion on the 817 postcode Chief Minister said that during the time of the Jairam government, most of the recruitments remained stuck in the court, including JOA( IT) postcode 817. After the decision of the Supreme Court, the government is now taking legal opinion regarding its result and will decide on its basis only.
Earlier, while discussing the proposal, Satpal Satti said that the government had given an employment guarantee in which it was said to provide jobs to one lakh people in one year and five lakh people in five years.
But the recruitment process which was started by previous rules was stalled leaving lakhs of students in limbo. The dissolved Staff Selection Commission couldn’t be established after passing of a year.
Urging to reinstate the SSC he said that the recruitment process should be started soon.
Congress MLA Chandrashekhar said that due to paper leak in the SSV, the recruitment of about 2.92 lakh youth was affected. He said that it is necessary to take steps to restore the commission.
According to a report, the unemployment rate in Himachal has reached 33 percent, The previous BJP rule only did the work of forming a committee for outsourced employees and this committee remained limited to meetings for five years.
He said that the ruling party and the opposition need to work together for this employment.
Sukhram Chaudhary, while participating in the discussion, cornered the government on the guarantees, he said that such assurance has made the state government unpopular in one year of its rule.
