Govt practising hypocrisy in name of job policy: Mandal
RANCHI: The Jharkhand government is practising hypocrisy in the name of job policy for locals and implementing Khatiyan-based local policy, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator and spokesperson Amit Mandal said on Sunday.
Addressing a press conference at the party’s state headquarters in Harmu, he said, “The government miserably failed to implement 1932 Khatiyan-based local policy and ensure entry of a maximum number of locals in government jobs.”
“The JMM, Congress, RJD government made a local policy based on Khatiyan in the last assembly elections and promised to appoint only locals for third and fourth-class jobs. In the assembly, the then chief minister Hemant Soren declared that ‘no entry for outsiders to take jobs in Jharkhand’. When the Hemant govComparing ernment brought the Khatianbased local policy proposal of 1932 to the Assembly, the BJP supported it and got it passed. However, the intention of the government was not clear. The then Hemant government only did politics in the name of sending it to Raj Bhavan and the President. The result of which was zero,” he said.
BJP’s job policy with the present government, Mandal said, “Raghuvar (Das) government had made a local policy considering the cut off of 1985, based on which more than one lakh youth were appointed, out of which 85% of the unemployed were residents of the Jharkhand state.”
Mandal further accused the state government of assigning the wrong agency to conduct recruitment tests and said that this was the reason behind the entry of the majority of outsiders into government jobs.
“Appointments made in the urban development department and water resources department should be investigated to find out how most of the outsiders got entry into the appointments,” he said.
JMM spokesperson Supriyo Bhattacharya refused to comment on the matter on Sunday.
“Will comment on the matter but not today,” he said, adding he will comment on Monday.