Patna: Ahead of Bihar assembly election, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday played a masterstroke by promising one crore government jobs, and employment opportunities for the youth of the state and setting up a skill university to be named after former CM and veteran socialist leader Karpoori Thakur in the next five years (2025-30).
In a long social media post, Nitish highlighted achievements of his government during the last 20 years, and also made several big promises for the next five years.
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's Tweet
Nitish wrote on ‘X’, “It has been our vision from the beginning to ensure that more and more youths in the state receive government jobs and employment opportunities. Between 2005 and 2020, over eight lakh youths in the state were provided with government jobs. To further accelerate the pace of providing government jobs and employment to the youth of the state, we resolved to provide government jobs to 10 lakh youth and employment to 10 lakh people in 2020 under the good governance programme, “Saat Nischay-2. Later, this target was increased to provide government jobs to 12 lakh youths and employment to 38 lakh people by August 2025, setting a total target of 50 lakh jobs/employment opportunities.”
“I am delighted to share that, so far, 10 lakh youths in the state have been provided with government jobs, and approximately 39 lakh people have been given employment, and the target of providing government jobs/employment to over 50 lakh youth will certainly be achieved. In this context, for the next five years (2025 to 2030), we are setting a target to double the goal fixed for 2020-2025 by providing government jobs and employment opportunities to one crore youths,” he commented.
“To achieve this, new job and employment opportunities will also be created in the private sector, particularly in industrial areas. For this purpose, a high-level committee is being constituted. Currently, the youth of the state are being provided with skill development training to connect them with self-employment opportunities under the Saat Nischay programme. In the next five years, the ongoing programme under Saat Nischay for the youth skill development will be expanded. In the coming time, a skill university will be established for skill development, which will be named Jan Nayak Karpuri Thakur Skill University in honor of Bihar’s pride, Bharat Ratna Jananayak Karpuri Thakur ji, so that the youth of the state can find a new direction in skill development,” CM informed.
Elated over the CM`s announcements, JD (U) leader Neeraj Kumar said, “Truly, such politicians are rare like Nitish Kumar Ji . It is not a promise, but a resolve’”
Congress spokesperson Asit Nath Tiwari claimed that the Nitish government could give only four lakh government jobs from 2005 to 2020 while five lakh posts were still vacant in various government departments.
On the other hand, RJD spokesperson Ejaz Ahmad said that Nitish`s promises were mere political gimmickry, intended at wooing voters before the assembly election.
