Goa MLAs demand reservation for locals in casino jobs
Legislators in the Goa assembly and other industrial units in the state, as per loꦫcal media report🃏s.
The issue w🌃as r🌄aised in the house by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Churchill Alemao who demanded 80 per cent job reservation for Goan youths in the casino industry.
Alemao said that the state government should intervene and ensure that Goan youths, who are trained in the field of hospitality and hotel management, get an opportunity to work in the cౠa♏sino industry. He said despite Goan youth being willing to work in the casinos, majority of workforce employed in casinos are from North Eastern states.
“I can understand that you want the Casino industry as it helps꧂ the State’s exchequer earn th🔜e revenue. But at the same time, they should provide 80 per cent of employment opportunities to Goans. Our Goan youth are willing and ready to work on casinos but the casino operators are not employing them.” he said. Alemao said that there is no job in this industry that Goans can’t do.
“Our youth are trained well in all those services that are provided in the casinos. If jobs are reserved🐓 for locals, it will help in solving the major issue of unemployment to certain extent,” he is said to havꦇe stated on the floor of the house.
Panaji MLA Atanasio ‘Babush’ Monserrate supported Al𝔉emao and added, “Almost 75 per cent working on casinos ar▨e outsiders. The casino operators advertise in national and international papers,” he charged.
Seeking an inquiry i♍nto the recruitments in the casinos, Monserrate chal🙈lenged the govt to prove that even 7 per cent of those employed on casinos are Goans and called on the govt to take immediate action.
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, however while discussing a law introduced by the in industrial units for residents of the state noted that such a law cannot stand test of the constitution and will be struck down by cou😼rts.
He however stated that the state gov♕ernment is in the process of training the youth as per the industry requirement through department of Skill Development.
