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Days after Town and Country Planning Minister Vishwajit Rane said that if the government fails to create enough employment opportunities for the youth in the state, people will have to think of a “different” option, the state BJ The president has sought an explanation from the government. Minister for his “critical” remarks.
Addressing a function in North. GoaK Satari Budh, Rane, who is MLA from Valpoi constituency, said the state needs to create at least 22,000 jobs in the next two years or else “people will have to think differently”. Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Pratap Singh Rane’s son Rane has left the Congress and joined the Congress. BJP In 2017
It is the responsibility of the government to provide jobs. I will request the Chief Minister to create employment opportunities for the unemployed youth in Goa. At least 22,000 jobs should be created and offered to the youth,” Rane added.
Responding to Rane’s remarks, Rajya Sabha MP and BJP state president Sadananda Shet Tanavde on Thursday reiterated that he had instructed party legislators and members to refrain from making such comments in public.
I have read his statement (in the media). Whatever the problem is, I will discuss it. One has to understand that not all MLAs and ministers are originally from the BJP and it will take some time for some of them to understand the party’s discipline,” Tanavde said.
Last week, Tanavde had publicly warned party legislators against infighting, saying the BJP was not a “dharamshala” and that MLAs should maintain discipline. “When MLAs want to raise an issue, they should do so with the concerned (ministers) and avoid raising concerns in public,” Tanavde said.
The warning comes in the wake of turmoil within the Goa BJP after several ministers and leaders of the party protested the withdrawal of several bills during the monsoon session of the assembly last month. Calangute BJP MLA and former minister Michael Lobo had then claimed that “all is not well” but after meeting Tanavade claimed that he had been misquoted.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister of Goa Pramod Sawant has said that more than two lakh jobs will be available in Goa in the next two years.
At an event in Panaji on Thursday, Sawant said: “Many people say that there are no job opportunities in Goa. But I want to reiterate that over two lakh job opportunities in Goa in the next two years. Will be available. Employment does not mean only government jobs. We have to think beyond government jobs and opportunities will arise in the field of tourism, information technology or education.
Sawant said if the youth of Goa failed to take advantage of the employment opportunities, the youth from outside the state would “take over” those jobs. The Chief Minister urged the youth to find business opportunities in tourism.
According to data from the Periodic Labor Force Survey, released on Monday for the period between July 2023 and June 2024, the unemployment rate across all age groups in Goa is 8.5 percent. The rate is 19.1 percent for 15- to 29-year-olds.
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