Govt to enact new law to give preference to locals in jobs!

March 6: Locals should get preference in jobs and if needed, a strong legislation will be enacted for this purpose. This was said by Union minister of Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday while speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of the permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Nagpur.

Gadkari said, Bhumiputras (sons of soil) should get employment in the projects here at MIHAN (Multi-modal International Hub Airport).” Gadkari said at least 1.25 lakh jobs will be created through the development of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) near Mumbai in the next few years. The minister said, “I have given directions (to authorities) to ensure that at least 80 per cent of these jobs in the JNPT be given to locals from the coastal Konkan region.”

The minister said, “Many a time, people whose land we acquire are left out of the development process. This is not the case here (in MIHAN) and all development is being done by taking along sons of the soil here. “This is our model of inclusive growth in which the last man standing is the part of development,” he said.