Promise of 8 lakh jobs in Delhi yet to be fulfilled: Maken

NEW DELHI:

Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken said that the manner in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi failed to fulfil his promise to provide employment to crores of the nation’s youth, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal too had failed to keep his promise of giving jobs to eight lakh people.

Addressing a press conference at the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee office at Rajiv Bhawan here on Saturday, Maken said when 82 per cent of the vacancies in the Delhi Employment Exchange (DEE) have not been filled, how can the Delhi government give employment to lakhs of people.

He said that of the 357 posts in the DEE, only 18.5 per cent have been filled, meaning 300 posts are yet to be filled.

Maken said that according to the Delhi government’s Statistical Handbook, upto December 31, 2016 , 12,97,364 people had been registered with the DEE, and if the figures for 2017-18 included, then the total number of people registered goes upto 15 lakh.

He said that the DEE, in a reply to a query filed by the Delhi Congress RTI Cell, gave the figure of giving jobs in 2016 to 102 people, in 2017 to 66 people and till April 2018 to only 46 people.

Maken said it shows that instead of giving employment to eight lakh people, the Delhi government has given employment to only 214 people between 2016 and April 2018.

“How can the AAP government, which fixes the target to give 5,000 jobs in a year, provide jobs to lakhs of people, as the party had promised,” he said.