Senior Congress leaders Sunday backed the decision of the Council of Ministers to give authorities careers to the sons of Fatehjung Bajwa and Rakesh Pandey, sitting legislators of the Congress, and lashed out at the critics for failing to take pleasure in the point out plan that has been in force for several a long time now.
In a joint statement issued by some of the ministers of the condition government, namely Rana Gurmeet Singh Sodhi, Sadhu Singh Dharamsot, Vijay Inder Singla, Aruna Chaudhary, Sunder Sham Arora, Gurpreet Singh Kangar, Balbir Singh Sidhu, O P Soni, Bharat Bhushan Ashu and the Users of Parliament Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Jasbir Singh Dimpa and Mohammad Sadiq, the collective decision of the Cupboard to give authorities jobs to sons of sitting MLAs was termed appropriate and in line with appointments given to likewise located persons in the earlier.
Lal Singh, chairman, Punjab Mandi Board, as well, came out in assist of the Cabinet final decision and encouraged all political leaders of the Congress to refrain from earning any statement that could possibly weaken the occasion.
The leaders emphasised that the Congress govt has accorded prime priority to Ghar Ghar Rozgar Te Karobar Mission, which has now facilitated employment for about 17.60 lakh youths out of whom 62,743 persons have been provided authorities work, 9.97 lakh persons have been assisted in self-work and 7,01,804 personal sector work have been facilitated. The govt has already initiated the method for filling up an additional 1 lakh authorities employment. This course of action shall continue unabated and the govt shall go away no stone unturned in helping every single unemployed youth in the condition.
It was also pointed out that the state of Punjab had always been a welfare condition and it has been supplying careers to numerous classes of persons preserving in watch the hardship confronted by them as a outcome of unexpected and tragic situations. Aside from Terrorist Affected Households, positions and/or monetary assistance has been specified to handicapped people, rape victims and the family members of 1984 riot victims, defence staff killed in action and federal government personnel who die in harness to title a number of.
Giving aspects of appointments provided in the past to people of terrorist affected victims, it was pointed out that there are at current at least five these officers in the IAS cadre of Punjab who experienced initially been appointed to the Punjab Civil Services (Government) on these grounds. They further quoted the singular situation of the Office of Excise and Taxation where 108 work opportunities, which include two ETOs, have been provided to the victims on these grounds. Equally, 6 terrorist victims had been appointed as Naib Tehsildar and a lot of other victims have been specified significant appointments (DSP, Inspector, etcetera) in other departments and go on to provide on extremely senior positions in the condition. Petrol pumps, ration depots and other self-work avenues have been presented on precedence to such family members. The victims of the 1984 Sikh riots have also been given very similar benefits in addition to money aid, they explained.
Furthermore, in the final four several years 72 subsequent of kin of Shaheed Defence and Para Armed service personnel have been presented employment, together with PCS (Government) Allied services like Tehsildar, ETO, and Assistant Registrar Cooperative Societies. An additional 10 people are getting called for interviews shortly whilst 9 family members have reserved the jobs for their small kids. Economic Guidance of Rs 50 lakh is also becoming presented as a mark of regard and gratitude to these people.
Even during the farmers’ agitation towards the Central farm legal guidelines, the point out government has confident a occupation to each and every of the households of the farmers who have died for the duration of the agitation, and the system of providing these is currently underway. Economical assistance is also remaining extended to all such family members.
The leaders emphatically stated that when other equally placed people were being currently being consistently supplied added benefits beneath the state plan, it would be unfair to discriminate towards the young children of MLAs only due to the fact their fathers are at this time holding this kind of positions. Even in the past the governing administration has not discriminated on the basis of social standing or economic perfectly-getting of households although extending this kind of positive aspects. The folks vital of the go have missing sight of the reality that a job of DSP was specified to the grandson of Sardar Beant Singh, previous chief minister, who was assassinated by terrorists. A work of Naib Tehsildar was in the same way specified to the wife of late Baldev Singh, MLA. Citing more examples, they said pursuant to the assassination of A S Atwal, DIG, his wife was appointed to the PCS (Govt) and subsequently even his son was offered a job of Inspector in the Punjab Police. In the existing case, Fatehjung Bajwa was a minor when the tragic incident transpired, in which he misplaced his father, when Rakesh Pandey was incapacitated by an accident which did not allow him to take up employment below the state. As a outcome, it is justified that their young children should really be provided these jobs.
The Main Minister had also defended the determination of the Cabinet by observing that one particular cannot permit these kinds of sacrifices to go squander while reiterating that the Punjab authorities will carry on to recognise every these contribution to the state’s peace and harmony.