New Delhi: The state government has set up a committee to prevent people from West Bengal from going abroad in search of employment.
People from West Bengal are working in different parts of the country including Delhi, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu. Their number has increased in recent years. Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of the Trinamool Congress government, has tried to prevent this. For this he has constituted a 44-member committee headed by the state chief secretary.
18 dignitaries including the Chief Secretary and 26 experts from various industries are included in this committee. This committee, on behalf of the State Vocational Education Department, is going to collect the statistics about those who go abroad for employment. Separate information is to be collected on those who have received quality vocational training and those who have not received any training.
Then it is planned to give employment to those who have received vocational training in factories in their state. Government of West Bengal is going to provide training for the profession of their choice to those who do not know any profession with subsidy. Then a scheme has been devised to help them get employment in their own state.
Around 15 lakh laborers returned to West Bengal from other states during the Corona outbreak. Providing immediate employment to them is a big challenge for Chief Minister Mamata’s government. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has taken this step keeping this in mind.
The incident involving the Coromandel Express in Odisha last Friday also caused this. About 62 people from West Bengal who were traveling in Indian train died. About 180 others are missing.
In this case, Chief Minister Mamata fears that a large number of West Bengal workers working in foreign states will bring bad name to her government. Whereas in West Bengal he has received complaints of shortage of manpower in factories and hospitals. So Chief Minister Mamata has taken this step to solve the problems by combining these two.