The BJP would lock all Employment Exchange offices across the State on Monday in protest against the State Government’s failure to provide jobs to youths, informed BJP Yuba Morcha president Tankadhar Tripathi at a Press meet here on Sunday.
“Unemployment has risen in the State during the last 19 years of BJD rule.
The State Government has betrayed them. It is disappointing that the State Government is only blaming the Central Government instead of providing job to youths,” said Tripathi
Alleging that the District Employment Exchange offices have failed to provide jobs to youths in both the Government and private sectors, Tripathi said party activists would lock all these offices and held protest meetings in front of them.
“In 2008, it was decided at the Government level that private companies would recruit 90 per cent of unskilled workers, 60 per cent of semi-skilled workers and 30 per cent of skilled workers from among local youths.
The State Government has failed to implement the decision,” Thripathi alleged and demanded that the State Government make it public regarding recruitment of Odia youths appointed by MoU-signed large firms.
Among others, BJP Yuba Morcha general secretary Bishwaranjan Badajena, treasurer Pratap Chandra Nayak and coordinator Kamaksha Prasad Pradhan were present.