Yuri calls out govt on empty job promises

Margao: Cuncolim MLA Yuri Alemao said that the figures provided in the replies to the Legislative Assembly Questions also brought to the fore the “complete lethargy” on part of the government to create employment opportunities for educated youths of Goa.
A reply from the labour and employment department stated that while 1.6 lakh youth have registered with the state’s employment exchange, the government gave jobs to only 115 persons on regular basis and 1,749 persons on contractual basis in the last three years and five months.
“This is shocking from the very government which promised unemployment dole before 2012 elections, 50,000 jobs before 2017 assembly elections, 10,000 jobs each before zilla panchayat, municipal and panchayat elections,” Alemao said.
In a reply to Alemao’s question, the government said it was “not aware” of the reports released by Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) which stated that at least 10.5% of Goa’s population was unemployed during the Covid-19 pandemic, much above the national unemployment rate of 4.2% and the report published by Centre for Monitoring of Indian Economy (CMIE) stating that unemployment ratio is 13.4% in May 2022 as against national average of 7.12%.
“This reply exposes the fact that the BJP government is not concerned with the rising rate of unemployment in Goa,” Alemao said. “It is sad that the BJP government has no mechanism in place to monitor employment in the private sector in Goa. The LAQ replies have also revealed that there is no data available with the government pertaining to employment in the private sector. The big talks of the BJP government have once again turned out to be jumlas.”