How 75% Reservation For Locals In Private Jobs Will Impact Haryana | India Today Insight

A week before the Haryana assembly reconvened for the budget session, state governor Satyadev Narayan Arya finally gave his consent to the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Bill, 2020, providing 75 per cent reservation in private sector jobs for the state’s residents. The enactment of the legislation, a key assembly election promise made by the ruling BJP’s coalition partner Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), though will bring in its own set of challenges because of its various clauses—one of them being that companies cannot hire more than 10 per cent of their staff from a single district of the state.

The assent has come at a critical time. The state is going through farmers’ agitation and the JJP leadership has been facing pressure to part ways with the BJP. The new law will enable JJP leader Dushyant Chautala to gain a toehold among the youth—his core voters. He termed the move as the “happiest moment for the youth of Haryana”, and added that the government would frame the rules sooner for faster implementation of the law. “It was not just JJP’s poll promise. We went ahead and made 90 per cent reservation’s commitment. But later, during the internal deliberations and discussions with the industry, we realised that we should limit it to 75 per cent,” Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar told India Today. Quota in private jobs for Haryana’s residents is part of the common minimum programme of the BJP-JJP coalition government, formed after the October 2019 assembly election.

Source: India Today

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