CM Manohar Lal Khattar flanked by Institute for Development Communication director Pramod Kumar (left) and NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand release a book in Chandigarh on Thursday.
Sushil Manav
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 28
The Haryana Government is considering a proposal to provide a monthly allowance of Rs9,000 to unemployed youths by giving them work for 100 hours.
It, however, has apprehensions that once they start getting the allowance, the unemployed youths may start demanding regular jobs.
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar shared this while inaugurating a national seminar on development of states in the Institute for Development Communication (IDC) here today.
Ramesh Chand, a member of the NITI Aayog, and YK Alag, chairman of the IDC and former Union Minister, were among those who addressed the inaugural session.
Pointing towards a galaxy of economists and researchers present at the seminar, Khattar asked them to suggest the government ways to help the youth and how to handle a situation arising out of demand for regular jobs.
Listing out his government’s initiatives, Khattar said efforts were being made to provide jobs to the maximum number of youth under the new Enterprises Promotion Policy.
“Skill upgrade of the youth is also being ensured so that they match the requirement of the industry,” he said.
Khattar said when Haryana witnessed the worst turmoil two months ago, it was said that no one would like to invest in the state. “I decided to let bygones be bygones, spoke to the Japan Ambassador and prospective investors in China, and went ahead with investors’ summit Happening Haryana that fetched the state MoUs worth Rs5.84 lakh crore.”
Lauding Haryana’s pace of development in comparison with Punjab, Ramesh Chand, member of the NITI Aayog, said the state’s mixed model of development based on agriculture, industry and service sectors had taken it way ahead of its neighbouring state.
Hailing National Agriculture Market (NAM) as a game-changer for farmers, Chand said: “Haryana and 11 other states have adopted it, while Punjab is still considering.”
Khattar released a book on farm workers of Punjab by Virender Sharma, senior research associate of the IDC.
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