ACTION TAKEN AGAINST PEOPLE DUPING TICKET ASPIRANTS: CM Oppn exaggerating unemployment figures: CM Khattar
Says only about 80,000 grads, post-grads unemployed
CHANDIGARH:Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said the opposition parties were exaggerating the unemployment figures as there were only about 80,000 graduates and post graduates unemployed in the state as against what was projected by the opposition.
The chief minister, however, admitted that there is a percentage of unemployed people who are under matric, matric or under graduate but held that it was not more than what the opposition leaders were claiming.
Khattar asserted that the state economy was in a much better shape than many other in the country and was best in the region.
“While the GDP for 2018-19 was 6.8%, in Haryana it was 8.2%. If we take agriculture growth for this period, in country it was 2.9 whereas the state it was 5.5%, industry growth rate was 6.9%, but in Haryana it was 8.6%, in service sector it was 7.5% as against 8.2% in Haryana,” he said during a press briefing.
“Our economic parameters are much better than neighbouring states like Punjab, where employees sometimes don’t get their salaries on time,” he added.
Khattar said that in ‘Ease of Doing Business’ rankings, Haryana, which was at 14th spot in 2014, stands at third spot now.
About ₹85,000 crore investments have come into the state which is the highest for the five year period, Khattar said.
Nearly 82,600 youths have been provided with jobs in private companies, he added.
Spelling out steps taken by the state government on employment generation front, Khattar held that besides 70,000 recruitment through staff selection commission and 3,000 through Haryana public service commission, the government had generated job avenues through skill development courses. KARNAL :Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said two groups, who have been “duping aspirants by promising them BJP ticket in exchange for money”, have been identified and booked under relevant sections of the law.
“Some people have been misleading and duping assembly election aspirants by promising to get them a party ticket. It is a very serious issue and action will be taken against such Tickton ke Dalal,” the chief minister said.
“They claimed to have links with top party leaders and promised to help people buy a ticket,” the chief minister said during a visit to
“We are also contemplating upon setting up a separate department for human resources development as well as giving job preference to youths of Haryana domicile,” he added.
To the current issue of inconvenience caused to youths due to far-off job examination centres, he held that the “government Karnal on Tuesday.
He asserted that “tickets were not sold in the BJP but alloted as per the set criteria”.
Earlier, addressing a gathering at a programme of Other Backward Classes (OBC) Morcha, the chief minister said the community has played an important role in formation of the BJP government in the state in 2014.
“In 2014, they (OBC community) voted for us and we won 47 out of 90 seats. Now, the BJP has set a target of winning 75 out of 90 assembly seats in the state which can only be achieved with the blessing of all communities,” the chief minister said. had decided not to set up a centre close to the candidate’s district, if not the home district in future”.
On the National Register of Citizens, Khattar said he favours its implementation in all state, asserting that the NRC was not an election issue for the BJP.