BHUBANESWAR: A newly formed organisation
Odisha Bekar Mukta Abhiyan (OBMA), a campaign to curb unemployment problem in
the State, said here on Thursday that only 24 thousand youths of the State were
employed directly in various organised sectors in between 1995 and 2009-10.
Addressing the Media persons, former
Union Minister Braja Kishore Tripathy said the State Government has been
advocating for employment for youths of the State, but failed to fill up 1,
12,000 job vacancy in the Government sector out of total 4, 74,410 posts within
10 years which shows the seriousness of the Government towards the future of
the youths of the State. Without employing the unemployed eligible candidates
for the vacant posts, the State Government is employing retired Government
officials in contractual basis, he added.
According to the State
Government’s data, 10, 10,722 youths have registered their names in various
employment exchanges in the State from which 1,40,543 youths from Scheduled
Tribe category and 1,73,759 from Scheduled Caste category. Every year, the
unemployment rate is increasing in the tune of 10 per cent, it said.
The State Government is selling
mines, minerals and providing forest lands, agricultural lands and water to the
corporate houses and companies, but how many youths are getting employment,
questioned Tripathy. The agricultural lands are rapidly decreasing in the
State, for which agricultural labourers and farmers are migrating to other
States, he added.
To protest the Government’s
apathy towards providing employment, the OBMA would start campaign ‘Bekar Mukta
Abhiyan’ on September 17 here, informed convener of the newly formed campaign
MLA George Tirkey. Among others, joint convener of OBMA former Union Minister
Bhajaman Behera, Secretary Manoj Jena, joint secretary Jayant Bhoi and
spokesperson of the campaign Er Lalit Mohan Patnaik were present.
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