With a view to providing jobs to local youth as it had promised during separate Telangana movement and stopping youngsters from seeking greener pastures abroad, the TRS government has reserved a maximum of 80% jobs to local semi-skilled workers and 60% in skilled category in new industries and factories.
The government wants to hit two birds with one stone with this new industrial policy — one, the government would be able to provide opportunities to locals and make them less dependent on government jobs and secondly, industrialists need not worry about bringing workers from other states. Plus, the industies are set to get a slew of incentives.
Officials said the industrial policy could not have come at a better time as unrest among the youth is growing since they were not getting jobs and TRS regime was not able to fill vacancies in government departments.
Industries principal secretary Jayesh Ranjan says the new incentives policy is not aimed at the migrant workers. “This is not against migrant labour from other states. There is no anti-migrant sentiment in Telangana. Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has made it clear that migrant workers are part and parcel of Telangana’s development curve. This policy is not meant to drive them away,” he asserts.
He said the TRS government took the decision as per the promise it had made in the party manifesto. “All that the CM wants is locals to gain and migrant workers also benefit with welfare measures like health insurance, education for their children in their mother tongue, etc,” Ranjan said.
Senior officials of industries department recalled that thousands of acres were acquired by the industrial infrastructure department in various districts for setting up industrial units. “The industries set up units in the villages, but did not provide jobs to local persons who parted with their land. They were unhappy as the promise of jobs for local youth was not met,” an official said.
Officials said they were flooded with requests from villagers that their sons be given semi-skilled jobs in projects like Pharma City at Mucherla in Rangareddy district. “The government is only trying to address these issues with the new policy,” an official said.
The new incentive policy is also likely to resolve the long-pending issues of Gulf returnees. Nearly 3.5 lakh migrant workers from Telangana returned to the state from the UAE and other Gulf countries in the last one-and-a-half years. But, a majority of them do not have any jobs now.
Thanks to the the new policy, they stand a chance to get jobs as semi-skilled workers.
“Youth, especially from northern Telangana districts, work in pathetic conditions in the UAE, Dubai, Oman and other Middle East countries. Some workers, who are engaged in cleaning in airports and camel grazing, earn about Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000 a month. With the new policy in place, they will get an opportunity to work here. At the same time, industry can overcome problems like getting migrant workers from other states,” GV Rao, president of Telangana Developers Association, said.
According to Telangana’s Socio-Economic Outlook-2020 report, the state had Rs 1.85 lakh crore investments since 2014 and created over 13 lakh employment opportunities.
The government wants to hit two birds with one stone with this new industrial policy — one, the government would be able to provide opportunities to locals and make them less dependent on government jobs and secondly, industrialists need not worry about bringing workers from other states. Plus, the industies are set to get a slew of incentives.
Officials said the industrial policy could not have come at a better time as unrest among the youth is growing since they were not getting jobs and TRS regime was not able to fill vacancies in government departments.
Industries principal secretary Jayesh Ranjan says the new incentives policy is not aimed at the migrant workers. “This is not against migrant labour from other states. There is no anti-migrant sentiment in Telangana. Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has made it clear that migrant workers are part and parcel of Telangana’s development curve. This policy is not meant to drive them away,” he asserts.
He said the TRS government took the decision as per the promise it had made in the party manifesto. “All that the CM wants is locals to gain and migrant workers also benefit with welfare measures like health insurance, education for their children in their mother tongue, etc,” Ranjan said.
Senior officials of industries department recalled that thousands of acres were acquired by the industrial infrastructure department in various districts for setting up industrial units. “The industries set up units in the villages, but did not provide jobs to local persons who parted with their land. They were unhappy as the promise of jobs for local youth was not met,” an official said.
Officials said they were flooded with requests from villagers that their sons be given semi-skilled jobs in projects like Pharma City at Mucherla in Rangareddy district. “The government is only trying to address these issues with the new policy,” an official said.
The new incentive policy is also likely to resolve the long-pending issues of Gulf returnees. Nearly 3.5 lakh migrant workers from Telangana returned to the state from the UAE and other Gulf countries in the last one-and-a-half years. But, a majority of them do not have any jobs now.
Thanks to the the new policy, they stand a chance to get jobs as semi-skilled workers.
“Youth, especially from northern Telangana districts, work in pathetic conditions in the UAE, Dubai, Oman and other Middle East countries. Some workers, who are engaged in cleaning in airports and camel grazing, earn about Rs 20,000 to Rs 30,000 a month. With the new policy in place, they will get an opportunity to work here. At the same time, industry can overcome problems like getting migrant workers from other states,” GV Rao, president of Telangana Developers Association, said.
According to Telangana’s Socio-Economic Outlook-2020 report, the state had Rs 1.85 lakh crore investments since 2014 and created over 13 lakh employment opportunities.
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