Capt promises more job avenues for youth

Thursday, 21/01/2016

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Gurdaspur : Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said that generating jobs and eradicating the scourge of drugs in the state will be his top most priority. He was interacting with the youth of the area at the local sports stadium. The PCC president said that not only will he arrange the jobs for youth, but he will also facilitate soft and easy loans to encourage the youth towards entrepreneurship, whether in transport, small industry or information technology and agriculture. He said that revival of industry and agriculture will be among his top most priorities as Punjab cannot survive without agriculture.

Sharing the concern and apprehensions of the educated youth, Capt Amarinder said that he was saddened about highly educated youths with M Phil, PhD and engineering degrees in the state applying for small and menial government jobs. “I can understand the trauma of a highly qualified youth who is jobless,” he said, adding that ‘my first and foremost priority will be to provide respectable jobs to all those who are qualified, deserving and in need of these.’

Accompanied by the local MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, in whose assembly constituency Dera Baba Nanak this historic town falls, Capt Amarinder did not deliver any speech today. Instead he told the youth who had gathered there that he wanted to listen to them and know about their expectations and aspirations. About the false cases registered against Congress workers, the former Chief Minister said that not only will be the cases cancelled on the first day of taking over the government, but all those responsible for registration of the false cases including both the policemen as well as the politicians on whose behest these were registered will be put behind bars and will have to face the law.

Lashing out at the ruling alliance and holding them responsible for the flight of industry from Punjab to other states like Gujarat, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, Capt Amarinder said that they had not taken a single measure that would encourage and motivate the industry to come to Punjab or at least ensure that the local industry stayed back. Giving example, he said, the state government buys power at the rate of about Rs 2.5 from the national power grid, while it provides the same power at an exorbitant rate of about Rs 6.5 per unit. “How can industry survive and sustain at such rate,” he asked.