Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Tuesday said that the new Startups and new IT/ITES companies will be given exemption for two years under the 'Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020'.
“Apart from this, short-term (45 days) works will also be exempted from this law that provides for 75 percent reservation to the youth of Haryana in the private sector,” Dushyant said during the ‘Meet the Press’ programme held at Chandigarh Press Club
here.
The Deputy CM said that a provision has been made to impose a fine on the industries which do not employ employable local candidates from Rs 50,000 to Rs 2 lakh.
The law reserves 75 per cent of jobs in the private sector in the state offering a salary of less than 30,000 rupees a month only to locals.
Giving details of the exemption given in the Act, the Deputy Chief Minister said that in addition to sowing of crops, embroidery, the primary works related to fruits, vegetables, tea leaves, coffee, fish, animals etc. also taken up under the 'Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act'. '2020' are exempted. Exemptions have also been given to domestic servants and those industries for which skilled workers are not available, he
said.
Dushyant said that the Haryana Government has made this unprecedented decision to give 75 percent reservation to Haryanavi youth in the private sector on the occasion of 75th Amrit Mahotsav of the country's independence. This law came into force in the state from the midnight of January 15, 2022, and will be applicable in industries having more than 10
employees.
He said that companies are continuously getting themselves registered on the portal of the Labour Department and so far more than 22,000 companies have got their registration done. So far 3,280 youths have also got themselves registered from across the State, he added.
Dushyant also called upon the youth to get themselves registered on the Haryana Labour Department portal so that they can be linked with employment. The youth would soon be given the option to fill their details on the portal in their regional languages Hindi and Punjabi, he said.
The Deputy CM also said that the youth will also be given the option to link the Parivar Pehchan Patra with the concerned portal to solve the problem of domicile
certificate.
In reply to a question regarding the propaganda being done by the opposition against the reservation law, Dushyant said that in the year 2008-09, many incidents took place in big industries, due to which the local youth were deprived of employment.
He said that the 'Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020' was opposed politically and non-politically as well, but we did not stop in the interest of the youth. We will find a solution after discussing it with the Industry associations that had filed a petition in the court against it, he added in reply to another query.
Notably, there is growing fear among the business community that the reservation law could lead to a flight of businesses from the state, especially the tech and auto hub of Gurugram. A petition against the new law has been filed in Punjab and Haryana High Court by various business bodies.
Allaying the fears of the business community, Dushyant assured the industrialists that amendments in the act can be explored if required in the future.