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LAKHIMPUR: The Lakhimpur district unit of All Assam Unemployed Association (AAUA) has reiterated its demand to appoint the educated unemployed youths under Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts in the Grade III and Grade IV posts of Lakhimpur Medical College and Hospital (LMCH) and to ensure cent per cent appointment of the local youths in those posts of the newly-established medical institution.
Regarding the demand, the organization initiated an agitation programme in North Lakhimpur town by staging three-hour long sit-in in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office on Wednesday.
Leading the protest programme, Lakhimpur district unit AAUA president Binod Das, joint secretary Bhupen Sonowal said in front of the media persons, "Both Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts are flood and erosion-affected districts which are simultaneously plagued by burning unemployment problem and many other issues. These are also among the districts of the State having no major industry. No government has adopted any effective steps to establish any major industry in the two districts till date so that the unemployed youths of the two districts could be engaged for the mitigation of the unemployment problem. Under such circumstances, many unemployed youths of both districts have to migrate to other States in search of jobs. Such youths going to other States have to be the victim of oppression and exploitation, and even have to embrace death. Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, while visiting Lakhimpur, publicly declared that the unemployed youths under Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts would be appointed in cent per cent Grade III and Grade IV posts of LMCH. But now, despite this declaration of the Chief Minister, many candidates from Jalukbari, Nalbari, Nagaon and other places of the State have been engaged in the jobs of LMCH by a private sector contractor institution named 'Mapuna'. We have demanded the Chief Minister and the State Government to initiate steps to appoint the unemployed youths under Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts in all Grade III and Grade IV posts of LMCH."
In support of the demand, the organization submitted a memorandum, with a charter of other demands, to the Chief Minister through the Deputy Commissioner of Lakhimpur. Through the memorandum, the organization further demanded to appoint the trained candidates of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji in the ANM and GNM posts, to appoint the ward boys, ward girls and safai karmis who were temporarily engaged in North Lakhimpur Civil Hospital for many years, in LMCH by regularizing their posts, to engage contractors under Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts to supply the required items for LMCH, to launch probe by high-level authority into the alleged irregularities with regard to the construction of LMCH buildings and to take steps to reconstruct them as per estimate and to stop eviction drive against the street vendors in front of the LMCH. AAUA central committee general secretary Jiban Rajkhowa, organizing secretaries Chirantan Hazarika, Dulal Baruah, Dhemaji district unit president Bolin Doley were among those who took part in the protest programme.
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