Despite tabling a bill and managing to obtain the nod of the legislators, theJharkhandgovernment has fallen short of itsHaryanacounterpart in extending75% reservationto locals in private jobs. The Haryana government on Saturday issued a gazette notification to declare enactment of the law with a provision that private companies must upload their employees’ data on the portal by January 15, 2022.
On the recommendations similar to the ones made by theJananayak Janta Party(JJP), an ally of the ruling BJP in Haryana, the ruling tribal party here, JMM, had promised to provide 75% reservation to the state local in private jobs in its election manifesto.
While theJJP-BJPalliance government in Haryana passed a job policy bill in November 2020 followed by the assent of the governor on February 26, 2021, along with the gazette notification on November 6, the JMM-led Coalition Government here tabled the bill in March 2021 but has not been able to notify it yet.
The government here was forced to send it to the select committee of the House after 22 MLAs objected to one provision in the bill that allowed private companies a bypass from following the reservation norms in case of non-availability of suitable local candidates.