Taking a tough stand against alleged serious irregularities in providing jobs to people of the State after Skill Summit 2018 and Global Skill Summit 2019, Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday decided to conduct a probe on the matter by an independent probe agency.
Notably, Poreyahat MLA Pradeep Yadav had raised many serious questions and has asked about the employment letters of the persons, who were given offer letters in the Second Session of the Fifth Jharkhand Legislative Assembly in the Skill Summit-2018 and Global Skill Summit-2019. He had demanded the government to investigate the matter with an independent investigation agency. In view of the above, the CM, considering the issue as very serious, has decided to get it investigated by an independent investigating agency.
According to a government release 1.33 lakh people were given offer letters by the previous government. In Skill Summit - 2018, 26 thousand 674 people were given the offer letter. In this, 15 thousand 869 appointment letters were given by Higher, Technical Education and Skill Development Department, 2713 by Rural Development Department, 3317 by Urban Development and Housing Department, 4418 by Labour Planning and Training Department, 198 by Department of Mining, Geology and Industry, Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sports. And 159 persons were given offer letters by the Department of Youth Affairs.
In the Global Skill Summit — 2019, 1.06 lakh people received the offer letter. Out of these, 44 thousand 693 people were given appointment letters by Jharkhand Skill Development Mission Society, 12 thousand 101 by higher education, 5 thousand 963 by technical education, 12 thousand 451 by rural development department, 14 thousand 892 by urban development and housing department, 10 by labour planning and training department. Job offers were made to 965 thousand, 998 by the Department of Industries and 4 thousand 556 persons by the Welfare Department.
In the light of the offer letter given in both these skill summits, many serious questions were raised by MLA Pradeep Yadav on the updated status of employment, which the Chief Minister decided to be investigated with an independent investigation agency.
Meanwhile, in another decision, the CM has proposed to republish the examination results and not to conduct special examination for 20 per cent of the candidates who failed in the class 8 board examination conducted by Jharkhand Academic council in
the year 2020 in the context of Covid-19.
A total of 5 lakh 3 thousand 862 candidates appeared in the class 8 board examination. Out of these, 4 lakh 61 thousand 538 candidates passed, while the number of failed students is 42 thousand 324.