Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at the Central government over recruitment to government jobs, accusing it of following the philosophy of “minimum government, maximum privatisation”.
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The Congress also demanded the withdrawal of the September 4 circular of the Finance Ministry that puts a freeze on creating new governments posts without the approval of the Expenditure Department.
“Modi government's thinking -- 'Minimum Govt Maximum Privatisation'. The COVID-19 pandemic is just an excuse and the intention is to make government offices "free" of permanent staff. (Intention is to) Rob the future of the youth and promote (his) friends,” Mr Gandhi said in a tweet.
At an online press conference, Congress leader Rajeev Shukla asked the government to withdraw the circular on job freeze and create more jobs as private jobs were shrinking because of the corona pandemic.
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“This is a very alarming situation, since country’s economy is already in doldrums. Our GDP has gone down -23.9%. International Labour Organisation (ILO) report suggests that 40 crore people are going to be below poverty line. So, in this situation if Government stops creating new jobs and stops helping people, then who is going to support them?” he said.
“Private sectors are already into retrenchment because their financial situation is very bad and the government is not helping them as well in terms of loan waiver….So the Congress Party demands that more and more vacancies should be created in the Government. All existing vacancies should be filled immediately and people should be provided employment. All those sectors should be helped where more and more employment opportunities can be created,” he added.
