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Over 70,000 youths register for Congress s ‘Job Guarantee’ programme in Assam
Over 70,000 youths register for Congress s ‘Job Guarantee’ programme in Assam
The Congress has promised 1 lakh government employment opportunities every year if it is elected to power. Seeing the large number of applicants who have already registered their names for the job guarantee programme, the party is convinced that people have embraced its vision for progress.
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UPDATED: March 12, 2021 23:49 IST
The Congress has promised 1 lakh government employment opportunities every year if it is elected to power. (Credit: Hemanta Kumar Nath)
The Congress party has claimed that over 70,000 unemployed youths of Assam have registered for its ‘Congress or 5 Guarantee’ campaign.
Assam Polls: Congress claims to have received 70,000 registrations under its job guarantee programme
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Congress party in poll-bound Assam claim that it has received 70,000 registrations under the Guarantee Programme, for unemployed youth of the State.
Congress party in poll-bound Assam claim that it has received 70,000 registrations under the Guarantee Programme, for unemployed youth of the State. The Congress party’s freshly launched, Job Guarantee Programme, for unemployed youth of the State, is a part of its ‘Congressor 5 Guarantee’ campaign. The party has guaranteed 1 lakh government jobs, annually, once it is elected in the poll-bound state, translating to 5 lakh government jobs during the course of its tenure.
Assam polls: Over 70,000 register for Congress’ ‘Job Guarantee Programme’
Announced by party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during her recent Assam poll campaign, the Congress had on Thursday launched its “five-guarantee campaign”.
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The party on Friday said over 70,000 youth had registered on its campaign website.
Announced by party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during her recent Assam poll campaign, the Congress had on Thursday launched its “five-guarantee campaign”.
Apart from five lakh jobs in five years, the other guarantees are bringing in a law to nullify the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, raising the daily wage of tea workers to Rs 365, free electricity up to 200 units per household and Rs 2,000 monthly income support to all housewives.
Giorgos Argitis
Short-time-working (STW) schemes have been key components of responses to the pandemic in Europe. Such schemes however have two major drawbacks, making them inadequate to the employment crisis caused by Covid-19 and the development challenges of our times.
First, STW represents a ‘defensive’ labour-market intervention: it aims to preserve, not
create, jobs. Full implementation would at best imply the return of employment to pre-pandemic levels.
Nasos Koratzanis
Even this, though, is uncertain. The underlying logic, which is contested, is that labour demand crucially depends on labour cost. Several other factors are disregarded such as consumer demand or firms’ profit expectations and financial situations which equally affect job creation, especially in times of uncertainty.