Bill to provide 75% quota in pvt sector

Chandigarh, Aug. 21: The Haryana government will introduce a bill in the coming Assembly session to give 75 per cent reservation in private sector jobs to the state’s youth, days after a proposed ordinance on it failed to get the governor’s assent.

Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya recently sent the ordinance approved by the Haryana government for the President’s consideration, an official said.

Bills proposing 75 per cent reservation in private sector jobs to the state’s youth and reserving 50 per cent of seats for women in Panchayati Raj Institutions will be introduced in upcoming Monsoon session of the Haryana assembly, deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala said here on Friday.

The session begins on August 26. “We are bringing these and a few other Bills in the session starting next week, he told PTI. The ordinance which proposes 75 per cent reservation for local candidates in private sector jobs in Haryana was approved by the state cabinet in July.

This was a key poll promise of Chautala’s Jannayak Janta Party, which is a coalition partner of the BJP in the state.

The ordinance on private sector jobs has been reserved for consideration of the President.

The Cabinet, after clearing the ordinance, had sent it to the governor last month for promulgation. Under provisions of the Constitution, the governor has the powers to promulgate an ordinance when the state assembly is not in session.

When asked about the governor’s move, Chautala said that it is his prerogative.

“That is his prerogative, if he wanted to take decisions at his own level that also was his prerogative,” he said.