No jobs, graduates applying for posts of sweeper in state: Hooda

Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said unemployment was the biggest problem in Haryana, and data of the BJP government itself showed that due to unemployment, graduate and postgraduate youth are ready to do temporary jobs of sweepers in Kaushal Rojgar Nigam.

“39,990 graduate and 6,112 postgraduate youth applied for the posts of sweepers. 1,17,144 youth who have clears class 12 also wish to do this temporary job. In total, 3.95 lakh youth are standing in queue for the sweeper job,” he said, citing the government data.

“Earlier, the same situation was seen in recruiting six peons in Panipat court where 10,000 youth applied for the job. This included BA, MA, MPhil, PhD, BTech and MTech pass youth.

“Eighteen lakh unemployed youth applied for 18,000 Group-D vacancies released by HSSC and 25 lakh for 6,000 posts of clerk,” he added.

Hooda said Haryana, which was providing the most employment in the country during the Congress government, had been made the number one in unemployment by the BJP.

“The figures from CMIE (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy) to NSO themselves confirm this. The Central Government itself admitted in Parliament that unemployment has increased three times after the formation of the BJP government in Haryana,” he stated. “The central government has said the unemployment rate in Haryana was only 2.9 per cent in 2013-14 during the Congress government, which has reached 9 per cent during the BJP government,” he said.

The former CM said more than two lakh posts were lying vacant in the government departments of the state, but the government did not even recruit them. “On top of this, private investment has also completely stopped coming to the state. Before 2014, Haryana was the number one state in terms of per capita investment,” he pointed out.

Hooda said today the youth of Haryana were either leaving the state or the country in search of livelihood. “During the Congress government, coaching centres used to open in every street and locality for preparing for jobs, but today immigration offices are opening in every street,” he said.