Lalu Prasad demands 80% reservation for youths
Lalu Prasad Yadav demands for 80% reservation for youths in government jobs, education.
– ‘Bihar should reserve 80 per cent for locals’
The RJD chief said, “Like other states namely Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal and Kerala which have provision of reservation for their students, Bihar should also reserve 80 per cent for locals in state jobs and admission in educational institutions under state government control.””I’ll take up the matter with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar,” Lalu added
-‘Candidates from other states get the major government jobs in Bihar’
“In states like Kerala and West Bengal marking pattern in school and college examinations is different from Bihar due to which their students score high marks. In such a situation, they grab a major portion of employment depriving students of Bihar from employment,” he said .Same was the situation in recruitment of lecturers in other subjects like Science and Philoshy, where almost 80-90 per cent of successful candidates were outsiders, he added.
– ‘Six districts from Bihar are at the bottom across the country in education’
The RJD chief also referred to a letter written by his aide and party MLA Bhola Yadav to Chief Minister Kumar drawing his attention towards a survey conducted by UIPI (US-India Policy Institute) which highlighted Bihar as a laggard state. Four districts of Bihar were at the bottom economically in the country
In the field of education, out of 20 districts at the bottom across the country, there were six districts from Bihar. Also in health, eight Bihar districts were among the bottom 20, he said.
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