75 per cent quota in private jobs for Haryana locals

The Haryana assembly on Thursday passed the bill to reserve 75 per cent of jobs in the private-sector for residents of the state.The bill was a poll promise made by Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) chief Dushyant Chautala during the Haryana assembly elections last year.It was, in fact, Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala who tabled the bill for reservation of jobs for Haryanvis in the state assembly. The Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Bill, 2020 provides the quota for local people in private-sector jobs that offer a salary of less than Rs 50,000 a month.

It applies to private companies, societies, trusts and partnership firms, among others, located in the state.The bill provides for training to eligible local candidates when qualified people are not available. Earlier this year, the BJP-JJP government had failed to get Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya’s ssent to an ordinance on the job quota. The state government had then said that it will table a job quota bill during the Vidhan Sabha’s monsoon session. But amid fears of coronavirus infection, the House sat only for one day in August, only to resume now.