The Chhattisgarh Government has not been able to provide jobs to even one per cent of the registered unemployed youths during the past four years in Chhattisgarh, claimed former Congress MlA Mohammad Akbar while addressing a Press conference at Congress Bhawan here on Thursday.Akbar also criticised the State Government for its ‘outsourcing’ policy of recruiting Science and Mathematics teachers from other States.Terming the State Government’s decision as injustice to lakhs of unemployed youth of the State, he demanded the decision to be rolled back immediately.“Why such a situation has arisen when the same Government is in power for the three consecutive terms,” Akbar questioned and charged that the State Government has no concrete policy for education and employment of the youth in Chhattisgarh.
Presenting statistics from Bastar and Surguja divisions in support of his allegation, Akbar said that around 2.5 lakh unemployed youths had registered themselves for employment between year 2011-12 and April 20, 2015 in Bastar division in which only 1302 got employment.Similarly, over 1.2 lakh youths had registered themselves for employment in Surguja division in the same d uration out of which only 11 youth got employment which comes to a meagre 0.009 percent of total youths registered.
Presenting the data provided by the State Government in the Chhattisgarh Assembly, Akbar informed that against the 243 sanctioned posts in Raipur Engineering College, 167 are vacant. likewise in Government Engineering College, Bilaspur 137 posts are vacant out of 255 posts. In the same way at Bhanupratappur all 4 posts of Professors are vacant and 17 out of 39 Assistant Professor posts have not been filled.He blamed State Government for not following industrial policy which mandates employment to 90 and 50 per cent locals in unskilled and skilled categories respectively strictly.“Due to the wrong policy adopted by the State Government, currently over 40,000 engineers have not been able to get employment and they are forced to work for Rs8,000 to 10,000 per month salary,” he charged.