PANAJI
The Aam Aadmi Party has lamented the increasing unemployment in Goa and asked the government to have an industrial policy linked with the educational policy.
AAP spokesperson Surel Tilve pointed out that Goans prefer to work in the service sector and not manufacturing or industrial sector and argued that service sector industries should be promoted.
“In the past, we invited manufacturing industries which resulted in people from other states being employed against the interest of Goa and Goans,” he said, adding that the industrial policy has to change now as the State is facing an economic slowdown due to the pandemic.
He emphasized the need for a proper industrial policy as the State plans to revive from the pandemic, especially as Goa missed the bus earlier with the IT sector, and highlighted the fact that industries have closed down and many people have lost their jobs.
The AAP castigated Chief Minister Pramod Sawant for his statement that the government cannot provide jobs for all and said the government should create the correct atmosphere where jobs are available for the locals. “Locals are not asking for jobs in government departments but jobs in Goa so that they do not have to give up their nationality and migrate to the west,” Surel said.
Surel asserted that the government should invite only those industries that would provide jobs to local Goans and not industries that use the Goan subsidy and other benefits only to provide employment to non-Goans.
