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| Despite incentives, industries refuse to commit on jobs | | Abhishek | | Abhishek
Jammu | Jan 14
The Industrial package of 2004, which was meant to revolutionize the industrial scene in the state, has failed to bring in the much-expected renaissance.
This is due to the fact that large number of industrial units set up under this scheme, despite enjoying huge incentives from the state have failed to provide equivalent employment to the locals.
In an interesting revelation it has been found that despite giving lot of benefits under the State Industrial package scheme 2004, the government has not been able to secure a promise that a majority of the jobs created by these industries will be provided to the state subjects.
Incidentally, the state govt had stipulated that the firms getting incentives would have to provide 90 percent of job to locals, however this figure was revised later.
This inability of the govt has however, created massive disaffection among the people particularly the unemployed youth of the state, who have alleged that these industries are making money at the cost of the state exchequer.
Alleging that these industrial units were violating govt orders, Rakesh Kumar, an unemployed youth said that huge investments have been made under this scheme and a large number of units have been setup. However, majority of the quality jobs have been secured by outsiders, “We have got only less paying jobs particularly those of unskilled labourers”, he alleged.
Another youth on the condition of anonymity alleged that new industrial units have come to this state just to enjoy tax benefits and as soon as these are stopped, the owners will take flight.
From the perusal of the data provided by govt in reply to a question in State Assembly, it can be clearly seen that majority of jobs created by these firms numbering 12726 fall in unskilled labour category, whereas jobs numbering 6024 have been created in skilled labour category.
Although 1808 jobs have been created in the managerial grade but majority of these have gone to outsiders, sources revealed.
While the unemployment rate is increasing, the business owners have put forward the argument that there is lack of skilled manpower in the state particularly in technical trades.
“We are not getting enough number of trained people and as such we have to get people from outside the state”, said a unit owner on anonymity.
Putting aside the argument, Ravi Singh, who had enlisted in the employment exchange 5 years back, said “If the argument of the industrialists is correct than there is no reason to give incentives to them as they do not provide any benefit to the state”.
The government and the industry could have launched a training scheme to enhance the skills of the local youth provided they were serious, he added.
Here it may be mentioned that this is contrary to the govt policy under which the government had issued an order on 30th June 2005, where it was decided to suspend or deny the incentives under the state’s industrial pacakage announced in 2004 to those industrial units that does not employ 90 percent locals.
As a matter of fact, none of the companies have been denied benefits despite failing to provide required number of jobs to the locals.
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