With the slogan “First job confirmed“(the primary job is assured), the “proper to apprenticeship” is likely one of the guarantees of marchees within the electoral manifesto of the Congress, placing the issue of unemployment on the heart of its marketing campaign in opposition to the Narendra authorities Modes.
The get together proposes to arrange a one-year apprenticeship program, with the federal government, public or non-public sector organizations with a stipend of ₹ 1 lakh per yr, for all individuals beneath 25 years of age, who’re college graduates or have a diploma.
“What’s our present method to coping with unemployment? Give them small money within the type of unemployment advantages. It’s a lazy technique. What we promise is to make our younger folks employable, giving them coaching for work. This offers an revenue, who’ve earned with dignity,” All India Professionals Congress president Praveen Chakravarty is among the many key members of the opposition get together's manifesto committee. He additionally argued that it will equally profit the businesses that can get the work at a diminished value because the authorities will share the price of the stipend and they’re going to get expert employees.
Based mostly on the Congress estimate, Mr. Chakravarty stated the scheme will likely be prolonged to twenty lakh youth. When requested, if the estimate of the Congress is simply too low, Mr. Chakravarty stated: “It’s like MNREGA, as soon as we roll the scheme, we all know the demand. Even whether it is greater than 20 lakh , there are 10 lakh non-public companies that, in response to GST information, having an revenue of greater than ₹ 5 crore per yr can afford to take part in this system.”
This concept, Mr. Chakravarty stated, got here after consultations with greater than two dozen economists and coverage specialists throughout the nation and the world. The concept additionally existed within the type of the Apprenticeship Act, 1962, which mandated corporations to make use of apprentices and to this point, 45,000 corporations are registered beneath the regulation. “The voluntary apprenticeship program works efficiently in lots of Scandinavian international locations and in Germany. The truth is, we now have studied the Dutch mannequin intimately. However ours is exclusive as a result of it makes a proper, as we now have introduced in MNREGA,” he added.
To get the concept to the younger voter and particularly to the primary time voters who within the final common election voted for the BJP in important numbers, the get together has despatched the Youth Congress to supply assure playing cards all through the nation.
