Andhra Pradesh has become the first state in the country to reserve jobs for locals in private industrial units and factories. On Monday, the AP Assembly passed the Andhra Pradesh Employment of Local Candidates in Industries/Factories Act, 2019, which reserved 75% private jobs across all categories in industrial units, factories, joint ventures as well as projects that are in public-private partnership (PPP) mode.
Although many states have been making noises about reserving a big chunk of private jobs for locals, they have not implemented it as yet. Madhya Pradesh had only on July 9 stated that it will bring a law to reserve 70% private sector jobs for locals. Immediately after coming to power in Dec 2018, MP chief minister Kamal Nath had announced an industrial policy that made it mandatory to give 70% jobs to locals in companies availing financial and other facilities from the government. The demand has existed in Karnataka, Gujarat and Maharashtra as well.
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Chief minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy had promised the reservation in run-up to the assembly election. The new AP law states that if locals with necessary skills are not available, then the companies would have to train them in association with the state government and then hire them. Experts say that with this companies would not be able to hide behind the excuse of not finding skilled labour.
Source: Times of India
