Give more room to locals in govt jobs: Gosha to guv
Ludhiana: BJP's Punjab panellist Gurdeep Singh Gosha met governor Gulab Chand Kataria at the Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh Tuesday, and urged him to direct the state govt to table a bill in the assembly seeking 80% reservation of jobs and other govt facilities for Punjabis by amending the Domicile Act.
Gosha said Guru Nanak Dev preached "sarbat tha bhala" or the welfare of all, but now the unemployed youth of Punjab are deprived of their rights.
In BJP-ruled states, the local unemployed youth get priority in govt facilities under the Domicile Act. In Uttarakhand, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Jharkhand, and even neighbouring s Haryana, unemployed Haryanvi youth have the right to 75% of seats along with all the govt facilities of the state, he said,
The former chief minister of Haryana, Manohar Lal Khattar, too set these criteria while giving large-scale facilities to domestic and foreign companies for investment, ensuring 75% of the seats for the domicile youth of the state will be owned by the youth of the state itself.
Gosha told the governor that because of large-scale migration of Punjabi youth to foreign countries, the socio-political and traditional culture of Punjab is on the verge of extinction.
He said, "Punjab is the land of gurus, peers, prophets, saints, and Mahatmas. Ancient traditions and culture are our heritage, for the preservation of which your and the Punjab govt's efforts will be recorded in history."
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