Bihar Cabinet on Tuesday, in a significant initiative before the ensuing assembly elections in October or November, cleared a slew of welfare schemes that would work towards containing the menace of youth unemployment and empowering the female gender. The best part of the judgments is the development of a Youth Commission, the creation of a better financial support system for persons with disabilities, studying under a competitive exam scenario, and the 35% reservation of domiciled women in services and jobs held by the government.
Unemployment has become one of the most voting points in the opinion-poll state, and the establishment of the Youth Commission has been considered as a political gambit by the government under Nitish Kumar. The new commission will aim at creating job opportunities, boosting skills acquisition, as well as the process of recruitment in government jobs. The commission will be composed of a chairman, two deputy chairmen and seven members, all of whom are below the age of 45.
In another big step, the Cabinet endorsed financial relief of 50000 rupees and one lac rupees to the differently-abled candidates to sit the main and interview level examinations in the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) and the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The step is bound to give a life-saving boost to the underdog candidates.
To increase women’s participation in the workforce and more women getting employed in state employers, the state government ratified a quota where 35 per cent of the workforce was to be based on domiciled women. This is a continuation of the current policies with regard to women, like 50 per cent reservation in the Panchayati Raj institutions, which have done much to make Chief Minister Nitish Kumar more popular with the female voters. Women have become an extremely key voting bloc in Bihar and usually manage to come out even more than the men do in elections.
They are also based on the commitments of the opposition leader, Tejashwi Yadav, who has made the promises of a 100% domicile policy, exemptions from fees to take competitive examinations, and increased representation of disadvantaged groups.
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