Storm the Barricades ! March to Mantralaya ! 29th Nov 2013 - As part of the twin struggle against rapid commercialization of education and acute unemployment in Maharashtra, this DYFI resolves to fight government policies that are causing massive unemployment in our state. This convention’s resolution on Education has pointed that the major cause of the serious problems faced by students today is Government abandoning its responsibility to provide education. On the question of employment too, the economic policy of India’s Central government contains the same neo-liberal understanding that the government does not have responsibility to create employment opportunities. On the one hand we can see the role of imperialism behind this anti-people economic policy adopted by rulers of our nation. On the other hand we can see that Maharashtra is a state where these policies are vigorously implemented by Congress-NCP government. The so-called main opposition political parties like ShivaSena, BJP, MNS etc uphold the same anti-people policy. What is more, their politics of communalism and regional chauvinism is meant to disarm the people from putting up resistance against the onslaught of unemployment. The democratic student movement and youth movement are aware that massive unemployment is a direct result of economic policy. So, youth and students from all community backgrounds have to be mobilized to reverse the policy and force the government to create employment to all. Agrarian sector has been in a deep crisis all over India and especially in Maharashtra. As a result rural unemployment has rapidly increased. Whatever expansion we had in industry did not compensate for the crisis in agriculture because the main feature of industrial growth is ‘Jobless Growth’ providing very little employment. Large sections of urban youth are pushed to informal sector which does not give job security or good wages or decent living conditions. The informal sector has a disproportionate share of youth belonging to Dalit, Adivasi and minority communities which have faced systematic exclusion from good jobs in the modern sector. Now, the crisis is coming to industrial sector. This is leading to increasing unemployment in urban areas. It is for the government to intervene in agriculture and industry with a view to creating employment but it as shown least concern about the worsening situation. The government’s criminal negligence is most glaring in the ban on recruitment, both declared and undeclared. More than 30% posts in The State Government sector are vacant Economic Survey 2012-13 of Maharashtra reveals that there are lakhs of notified vacancies in the State Government Sector ! When it comes to Local Self Government bodies, the percentage of unfilled vacancies are nearly 40%. Around 9 lakhs of youth who have completed D.T.Ed, B. Ed, B.P.Ed, Fine Arts Degree are today unemployed since Govt. has stopped recruitement to schools and colleges. NREGA is very poorly implemented in the state and handed over to middle men. And contractors who eat up a large portion of the wages. In such a grim situation, there are many important issues to be taken up in order to fight rising unemployment in Maharashtra. These are included in ‘Charter of Demands’. State Government, Local bodies & Public Sector units 1. Fill up the 26 lakhs notified vacancies in the State Government Services immediately. 2. Lift ban on recruitment in State Govt Departments and Public Sector Enterprises. Publish status of all vacancies in Govt Department and initiate fresh recruitment. 3. Stop outsourcing, contractorisation and recruitment of retired employees in permanent jobs. 4. Casual and contracted employment in permanent jobs in the public sector should be regularized. Dual structure of wage payment in similar jobs should be abolished at all levels. 5. Start recruitment of teachers in all schools and colleges and recruitment of teachers to private institutions should be done by Govt. itself. Employment Exchanges & Employment Guarantee 6. Expand the scope of NREGS to all individuals (not only for households) for an unlimited number of days for all kinds of works and increase the wages to 200/-. 7. Decision making powers about the type of works under NREGS and the shelf of projects should be delegated to the local self government with the greatest flexibility. Non-manual work too must be included. 8. Provide training for better implementation of NREGS. 9. Start Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme. Allot jobs to youth according to their educational qualification. 10. Till implementing Employment Guarantee Scheme to the entire rural and urban youth, unemployment allowance should be given to the registered unemployed in employment exchanges. 11. Revamp and modernize the employment exchanges. All recruitments in Public Sector should be channelized through employment exchanges. It should be made mandatory to private sector to provide all information on vacancies to respective exchanges. 12. Check corruption in all self employment schemes. Provide hassle free credit for self employment scheme applicants. Employment opportunities for Adivasi youth. 13. ST backlog in government vacancies should be filled immediately. 14. Modern Public Sector Industrial units should be started in all Tribal dominated Talukas 15. Open colleges, Skill Development institutions, technical/vocational colleges in tribal areas. 16. Take immediate action against ‘bogus ST/SC certificates’ holders. 17. Recognise and vest forest rights and implement fully provisions of the Forest Rights Act. Prevent Tribal land alienation. 18. Provide jobs directly to people displaced in the name of projects . Employment opportunities for Dalit & Minority youth. 19. SC backlog in vacancies should be filled immediately. 20. Reservation should be provided to Muslim youth in government jobs as recommended by Ranganath Mishra committee. 21. Maulana Azad foundation’s self employment schemes should be made available hassle free to Muslim youth and their contact centre should be opened in all Muslim populated areas. 22. ST/SC/Muslim reservation must be extended to private sector. Monitoring Employment situation 23. Labour Department of the State should collect and publish regular data on employment / unemployment both for the organized and unorganized sector. Now the data is released once in 5 years. This is highly inadequate. 24. Start releasing employment/unemployment data every month Plan of Action. In order to get above mentioned demands accepted and implemented by Government, we will have to make the youth conscious of our movement and mobilize them into an uncompromising struggle in the following sequence. 1. Wide spread campaign meetings and leaflet distribution in villages and urban centres in October to gather large scale youth support to our charter of demands. 2. District/Taluka level Rallies in early November 3. State wide Rally on 29th November in Mumbai and submit Charter of demands. 4. With the help of experts, draft of an urban employment guarantee bill will be prepared and will be brought in front of the Government. 5. From December on wards sustained agitations across the state on specific demands selected carefully from our charter. The struggles will be directed against various authorities considering the level of authority at which the specific demand can be achieved. At some stage we will gather volunteers from all districts once more to the state centre-this time for a sustained agitation at state head quarters of government departments and PSUs 6. These activities will be coupled with Student mobilization led by SFI based on the separate charter of demands being adopted by this convention
Posted on: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 05:13:20 +0000
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