Mr.CM! Where are the jobs?

Questions are being raised over the Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy’s braggadocio that Government would provide 3.5 lakh jobs to the youth this year under the Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu scheme.

Kiran’s assurances on providing employment to the youth during his Indiramma Bata programme was certainly vague and abstract as he had failed to provide any break-up of the employment details.

While making the promises, he said the Government has been targeting to provide 30 lakh jobs with the help of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and other industrial organizations with fifteen lakh jobs being targeted in the next five years.

The promise is good to listen over TV channels and sweet to read in newspapers but the very basic question as to how the jobs are going to be created still remains unanswered.

If he is sincere about providing employment in such a large number, he must spell out the region and sector-wise vacancies existing, whether they are professional or non-professional and technical or non-technical.

The chief minister’s claim that 60 000 jobs have already been created this year also needs to be scrutinized thoroughly in the backdrop of Government’s failure in keeping its earlier promises.

The CM should also explain about how Rs.777 Cr has been spent on training the beneficiaries under Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu scheme. His claim over the expenditure of training costs gives room to suspect that Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu has become a big platform for scam.

(Updated on Oct 12,2012)