Guwahati: Paresh Baruah, commander-in-chief of the United Liberation Front of Asom – Independent (ULFA-I) has demanded 95% jobs in energy companies, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) and Oil India Limited (OIL) be reserved for the locals of Assam.
Baruah wants the people of Assam to be benefited from these companies. He has demanded Rs 5 crore from each of these companies to be used for the infrastructure development of Assam. He also wants these companies to provide LPG to the rural areas through pipes.
Baruah has also asked for accurate data of the assets these energy companies are holding in Assam and details of their earnings from these assets.
Baruah, in a statement issued on Friday, has said that contractual recruitments should be stopped.
The ULFA (I) commander-in-chief stated that currently there is a recruitment scam that is going on in these energy companies. There are a few people who are taking bribes to give jobs. Baruah claimed that 80% of the vacancies are being filled in this manner in these companies.
He demanded transparency in the recruitment process.
The statement with the demands has come after just four days of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's appeal to Paresh Baruah to join the mainstream. Addressing his first press conference immediately after being sworn in as the Chief Minister of Assam, Sarma on Monday, May 10, CM Sarma had said, "I request Paresh Barua to come to the discussion table and resolve issues. Kidnappings and killings complicate problems, not solve them. I hope we will be able to make the underground insurgents return to the mainstream in the next five years."
Need to be mentioned here that the whereabouts of one of the three abducted ONGC employees Ritul Saikia is still not known. He is among the three ONGC employees who were kidnapped on April 12 from the Lakwa oilfield of ONGC in Sibsagar. The other two employees – Mohini Mohan Gogoi and Alakesh Saikia were rescued on April 24. Assam Police have said that Saikia continues to be held captive by ULFA-I.
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