Former Chief Minister of Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said rampant unemployment in the state is forcing BA, B.Ed and MA pass youth to apply for the post of peon, gardener and watchman— many youth gathered to work as labourers in war zone Israel.
He said the youth of the state have become so desperate that they are forced to do even temporary jobs.
Reacting to the issue of 7,616 youth applying for the recruitment for 13 posts of peon in Jhajjar, Hooda noted that most of these youth were highly qualified.
Hooda said such news repeatedly confirms that Haryana is number one in unemployment and the Bharatiya Janata Party government has no solution for this.
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“BJP has pushed the Haryana youth on the path of unemployment, crime, drugs and Dunki. Other highly qualified youth have been made to stand in line to become peons and chowkidars,” he stated.
“Just a few days ago, 5,700 youth applied for 13 posts of peons and chowkidars in Sirsa court. For this recruitment which requires 8th pass qualification, youth with degrees up to BA, BTech, BCom, B Pharmacy, BCA, MA, MBA, MSc, MCom, MCA and MPhil have applied,” he stated with concern.
Hooda said the Congress had made Haryana the state providing maximum employment in the country, but BJP has made it the number one state in unemployment.
“Due to unemployment, graduate, post graduate, MPhil, PhD qualified youth are ready to do menial jobs like that of a sweeper, peon and chowkidar in private companies, court and Kaushal Rojgar Nigam— 39,990 graduates and 6112 post-graduates applied for the sweeper posts in Kaushal Nigam; 1,17,144 12th pass youth also wish to do this temporary job. In total, 3.95 lakh youth stood in queue for the sweeper job,” he said, exposing the depressing state of affairs in the state.
Hooda said the same situation was earlier seen in the recruitment of six peon posts in Panipat Court, 10,000 applicants included BA, MA, MPhil, PhD, BTech and MTech pass youth.
Nearly 18 lakh unemployed youth applied for 18,000 Group-D recruitments released by HSSC and 25 lakh youth applied for six thousand clerk posts.
“From CMIE (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy) to the government organisation NSSO, the figures themselves show that Haryana is number one in unemployment. The central government itself admitted in the Parliament that the unemployment rate in Haryana was only 2.9 per cent in 2013-14 during the Congress government, which has reached 9.0 per cent during the BJP government,” he said.
“More than two lakh posts are lying vacant in the government departments of the state, but the dispensation did not even make recruitments on them. On top of this, private investment has also completely stopped coming to the state, due to which employment generation in the private sector has stopped. Whereas before 2014, during the Congress government, Haryana was the number one state in the country in terms of per capita investment,” he added.
Hooda added that nowadays the youth of Haryana are either leaving the state or leaving the country in search of livelihood.
“During the Congress government, there were coaching centers in every locality for aiding youth for jobs. But now immigration offices have come up. To add to the woes, the future of the youth going abroad is also in danger. It is sad that people from Haryana were the largest among the people deported from America,” he added.
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