Raising the issue of local labourers losing jobs, in the Assembly on Wednesday during a Calling Attention Notice, Pradeep laria of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that there are provisions in the Government’s industrial policy to provide 50 per cent jobs to locals but the rule was violated in his constituency. In Sagar district’s Sindhgua and Chanatoria industrial areas where labourers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are working only five to ten per cent locals got jobs.
In his reply labour Minister Antar Singh Arya said the issue has been related to Industrial Ministry. But he would order a joint physical verification into the matter. laira also pointed out that in these industrial units the labouers, including children, work for 12 hours thereby violating the industrial rules.
Shailendra Jain of BJP, who represents Sagar Assembly constituency, also supported the issue and urged for a probe. labour Minister assured that the probe would be completed within one month.
Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Minister Gaushankar Bisen on Wednesday informed the Assembly that the State regimes were given green signal to formulate its Bima Neeti (Insurance policy) after the new Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) was introduced.
Replying to a query about the PMFBY, raised by Kamleshwar Patel of Congress about the non-receipt of benefit from the old crop insurance policy by the farmers in the Sidhi, Singrauli region during the question hour, Bisen said that the state government would formulate its Bima Niti soon.
Bisen said several changes would be brought about in the new insurance policy. He said tenders would be invited for the new policy and it would be implemented during the coming kharif season. The Minister said the 50 per cent of the farmers would come into the ambit of the policy in the first phase.
When Patel and Ramniwas Rawat of Congress raised the question about the tender process, Bisen said several insurance companies were given permission for tenders.