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GUWAHATI: The APCC (Assam Pradesh Congress Committee) has raised the demand for the filling up of around 50,000 posts vacant in various departments of the State Government.
Addressing the media in Guwahati today, APCC's media department's vice chairman, Bedabrata Bora, said, "The problem of unemployment has aggravated in the state as the BJP governments at the Centre and in the state have not taken any strong measures to solve the problem of unemployment, and as such, the rate of unemployment in the state has increased from 4.7 percent to 7.69 percent. In urban areas, the rate of unemployment in the state is now 13.32 percent. This has put Assam among the 10 states considered mostly unemployed in the country."
Bora said, "The number of registered unemployed in the state is 16,81,777. However, the unofficial number of unemployed in the state is more than 30 lakh. The situation has come to such a pass that the educated unemployed of the state have to move to other states to work there as security guards, work in private hotels, and work as manual workers. Two youths from Kokrajhar-Ramprasad Narzary and Sanjay Basumatary-are among the forty labourers trapped in a coal mine in Uttarakhand. They have to go to Uttarakhand due to their hunger pangs."
Bora further said that in the past seven and a-half years, the governments in the state have failed to open any new industries, creating job opportunities in the state. "The Advantage Assam also failed to benefit the unemployed youths of the state. Only to create a gimmick, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma says in other states that his government appoints one lakh unemployed youths to government jobs," he said.
APCC's social media department's chairman, Ratul Kalita, said, "The Chief Minister was on record to have provided government jobs to one lakh unemployed youths every year in the state. However, in his past two-and-a-year tenure, his government has not even given establishment to 80,000 unemployed youths in the state."
APCC's senior spokesperson, Prabin Boro, said, "The Congress will field its own candidate in the Kokrajhar Lok Sabha seat this time."
When asked, he said that he would be the official Congress candidate for the Kokrajhar parliamentary seat.
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