Catch News: Haryana: Wednesday, July 04, 2018.
Armed with
details gathered under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, he attacked the
government for its hollow claims on employment saying that in 12 districts of
the state there are 2,62,768 registered unemployed.
Politics in
Haryana is heating up for both the Lok Sabha and subsequent state assembly
polls as the key players have started launching pubic outreach programmes. The
opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is presently carrying out a 'Jail
Bharo Andolan' in the districts on the emotive issue of completion of Satluj
Yamuna Link (SYL) canal and water woes of the state. The party is all set to
follow this programme with a campaign on another emotive issue of employment.
“The 'Rozgar
Mera Adhikar' movement will start once we are through with the Jail Bharo
Andolan. We will be going to the youth of the state and tell them how they have
been duped on employment by the state government under Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) led by Manohar Lal Khattar. We will be telling the people that we do not
want just registrations in the name of employment. The people should get the
employment that was promised by the BJP before coming into power at both the
Centre and in the state,” said INLD MP Dushyant Chautala.
He has also
questioned the much hyped online registration process initiated by the Haryana
government saying that the process is so tedious that many people, particularly
those in the rural heartland with limited knowledge of computers, find it very
difficult to register themselves. “How do you expect these leaders to upload
documents ?” he questioned.
Armed with
details gathered under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, he attacked the
government for its hollow claims on employment saying that in 12 districts of
the state there are 2,62,768 registered unemployed. Of these only 290 have been
provided jobs by the government, which is barely 0.1 per cent of the total
registered unemployed. “We had sought details from all the 22 districts but have
till now managed to get details only on 12 of them. The same RTI also informs
that under the much touted scheme to provide employment of 100 hours to the
unemployed youth only 9948 have been provided employment for 100 hours which is
only three per cent of the registered youth under the scheme,” he said.
But a much
more serious charge leveled by Chautala is about the Khattar government
preparing ground for the complete privatisation of education in the state.
Again armed with an official letter, he told media persons on Sunday that the
government is bypassing constitution bodies like the employment exchanges and
the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) and employing people in the schools
against the 'C' and 'D' category employees through private recruitment agencies
on the basis of commission per head. He claimed that all the schools, from
primary to Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas will be covered under this new
recruitment policy.
He said the
this policy has already been endorsed by the chief minister. “The companies
selected for the job of recruiting will be handed over a contract for seven
years and will get a commission of 2.01 per cent while the teachers will be
paid a lump sum amount. My contention is that in spite of having a complete
infrastructure in the form of employment exchanges and SSC, they are unable to
fill the vacant posts and are instead going out for hiring to benefit a few
private companies. Ironically, a large number of the private companies enlisted
for carrying out this recruitment are from the home state of the Prime Minister
Narendra Modi,” he charged.
He further
said that this anti-people and anti-education policy of the government will
adversely impact the right of equality of opportunity of the people to seek
employment since the teachers will be recruited on the will of the recruitment
agency and the authority that has the power to select it. It will also ignore
the legal provisions that have made reservation a law to bring about social
justice to the backward and the downtrodden.
“By adopting
this 'Gujarat model' of outsourcing, the government will also render the
Haryana Staff Selection Commission and Employment Exchanges redundant. When you
have a system in place, why do you need to hire through private players?
Obviously the purpose is to give some financial benefit to some chosen private
agencies,” he said while pointing that a large number of the enlisted companies
are security agencies that will be enlisting 'multipurpose workers' in schools
who would do everything from teaching to other petty jobs. He said that five of
the empaneled companies are from Surat alone.
The INLD has
demanded that the government withdraw this scheme failing which it will
approach the courts. “We have sent a legal notice to the concerned departments
demanding that this process be scrapped failing which we will file a public
interest litigation in the High Court,” Chautala said.
There has
been no response from the government as yet in the form of concrete facts and
figures on these serious allegations leveled by the INLD. But BJP leaders have
reportedly come out saying that in outsourcing of jobs in Haryana is not a new
practice and was there even before the Khattar government came into power. They
have also been sarcastically pointing that it is the Chautala family patriarch
Om Prakash Chautala who is undergoing a prison sentence in a case pertaining to
illegal recruitment of teachers. Allegations and counter allegations are all
set to fly as the politicking picks up in the days to come.
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