80% quota in private jobs for ‘sons of the soil’, says Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari

The Governor said the state government would provide reports to project its current financial status and work towards improving the fiscal health.

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Saturday said the new state government will enact a law to ensure 80% reservation in private sector jobs for “sons of the soil”. During his joint address to the Maharashtra legislature in Vidhan Bhavan on Sunday evening, the Governor also said that the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government will soon provide a “factual report” on the state’s fiscal health.

CM Uddhav Thackeray with Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Vidhan bhavan in Mumbai (Anshuman Poyrekar/ HT Photo)

“Growing unemployment is a prime concern of this government. We shall enact a law to ensure 80% reservation in private sector jobs for the sons of the soil,” the Governor said, adding the state is concerned about the rising unemployment and the “resultant restlessness among the youth”. The government will fill vacant posts in the state administration, he said. Providing reservations in jobs was a part of the common minimum programme (CMP) finalised by the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress combine. The Governor said the state will be taking “effective” steps to provide ₹10 meals, an objective stated in the CMP.

The Governor said the state government would provide reports to project its current financial status and work towards improving the fiscal health. “My government is committed to improve the fiscal health and the financial discipline of the state,” Koshyari said.

The state government will provide free college and higher education to girls belonging to economically weaker families as education has “become costlier”, the Governor said.