SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: INDIA bloc leaders on Saturday alleged that the double engine government has failed to create employment in the State and also provide unemployment dole.
Addressing a press conference, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Ramarao Wagh alleged that the government has failed to provide facilities in the educational area.
“This government has stopped scholarships and has failed to provide facilities in schools,” he said, adding the BJP has decreased the budget in the educational area compared to the Congress regime.
“They have brought saffronisation in education by erasing lessons on Mahatma Gandhi assassination and bringing new saffron chapters,” Wagh said.
Shiv Sena leader (UBT) Jitesh Kamat alleged that BJP has failed in education and also to create jobs. "BJP’s South Goa candidate Pallavi Dempo has admitted that there is unemployment in the State. This itself proves that there is unemployment in Goa," he said.
Kamat said BJP’s policies have failed to encourage local entrepreneurs and to create jobs.
Goa Congress Media Chairman Amarnath Panjikar said, "This double engine is known as Jumla Sarkar. It had promised to create two crore jobs every year. Even the Goa government had promised thousands of jobs. But both the governments have failed. However, we promise to fill the 30 lakh government jobs once INDIA bloc government is formed."
He said that before the 2012 assembly election, BJP had promised to release unemployment dole to youth, but failed to provide it for the last 12 years. "BJP brought ‘Industrial Promotion Board’ promising it will create jobs. But through this only one thousand jobs were created. But the government doesn't provide data about it, fearing they will get exposed as most of the jobs must have been given to outsiders," he said and pointed out that 17,000 jobs were promised through this board.
