New Delhi, 18 Jun: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on June 18 claimed that over two lakh jobs have been \u201celiminated\u201d from PSUs and alleged that hopes of lakhs of youth are being \u201ctrampled upon\u201d by the government for the benefit of a few \u201ccrony capitalist friends\u201d.
\nGandhi said Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) used to be the pride of India and the dream of every youth for employment but today, they are \u201cnot the priority of the government\u201d.
\n\u201cEmployment in PSUs of the country has come down from 16.9 lakh in 2014 to only 14.6 lakh in 2022. Do jobs decrease in a progressing country? 1,81,127 jobs lost in BSNL; 61,928 in SAIL; 34,997 in MTNL; 29,140 in SECL; 28,063 in FCI; 21,120 in ONGC,\u201d he said in a tweet in Hindi.
\nHitting out at the government, . Gandhi said those who made false promises of providing two crore jobs every year, instead of increasing the jobs, \u201celiminated\u201d more than two lakh jobs.
\n\u201cOn top of this, almost doubled the contract recruitments in these institutions. Is increasing contract employees not a way of taking away the constitutional right of reservation? Is this a conspiracy to privatise these companies?\u201d he said.
\n\u201cIndustrialists\u2019 loans waived, and government jobs eliminated from PSU\u2019s! What kind of \u2018Amrit Kaal\u2019 is this,\u201d Gandhi asked.
\nIf this is really \u2018Amrit Kaal\u2019 then why are jobs disappearing like this, he also asked. \u201cThe country is grappling with record unemployment under this government as the hopes of lakhs of youth are being trampled upon for the benefit of a few crony capitalist friends,\u201d Gandhi alleged.
\nIf the PSUs of India get the right environment and support from the government, they are capable of boosting both the economy and employment, he stressed. PSUs are the property of the country and the people, they have to be promoted so that they can strengthen the path of India\u2019s progress, he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi, 18 Jun: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on June 18 claimed that over two lakh jobs have been \u201celiminated\u201d from PSUs and alleged that hopes of lakhs of youth are being \u201ctrampled upon\u201d by the government for the benefit of a few \u201ccrony capitalist friends\u201d. Gandhi said Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) used to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-218671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}