Agartala, Aug 09, 2022, TRIPURATIMES Desk

Agartala Aug 09: Raising the question “Where is my JOB”, DYFI, Tripura Unit came down on the streets demanding materialization of the pre-poll promises made by the ruling BJP.

Tuesday, DYFI Aaralia Anchal Committee organized mass protest rally on the basis of seven charter point demands.

These includes, 200 days of work under MGNREGA and increase in daily wages, immediate publication of JRBT results, recruitment of all TET qualified youths, fulfilment of 50,000 jobs per year promise, permanent solution to 10,323 teachers’ issue and many more.

Speaking to the reporters, DYFI State secretary Nabarun Deb said, “The deceptive and cheap slogans that the BJP fooled the people with, prior to the 2018 assembly election appeared to have boomeranged now for the ruling party”.

Among the 299 cosmetic promises laid down in the ‘Vision Document’ which was pompously published by the then finance minister Arun Jaitly, and used as election manifesto during the election campaign, there were several promises of providing jobs to the unemployed youth of the state. The document included promises like recruitment of 50,000 posts in various government departments every year, jobs in government or in private farms to every family with unemployed youth, 200 work days under MGNREGA with a daily wage of Rs 340 and finally justice to the 10,323 teachers retrenched by the court verdict, on humanitarian grounds, but nothing has been fulfilled by the government in these four and a half years of governance, said, Nabarun Deb.

Talking about the qualified youths sitting jobless at homes, Deb said, “The BJP’s empty promises were exposed to the state youth within a short period when they saw that government recruitments have been totally stopped.  The posts which got vacated with superannuation of the incumbent employees are being abolished forever. A good number of employees got retired during the last three and a half years of the coalition regime. In most of the offices, there is acute shortage of staff causing deadlock even in sustaining skeletal works. Government hospitals are running under tremendous shortage of doctors, nurses, para-medic staff etc., and causing inhuman deterioration in medical and nursing services in the government hospitals. The government, instead of making fresh recruitments, is trying to run the offices with outsourcing staff. This has enraged the youth of the state. The government is also juggling with the number of unemployed youth in the state”.