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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today described unemployment as a “serious problem” as he alleged that the previous Congress government hired about 90,000 employees from “back door” without following any rule.

Khattar said that the intention of the government is to provide work to every person in the state. He was addressing a meeting of party workers here today. “The previous government recruited about 90,000 employees from back door without following any rule,” he alleged.

The chief minister said that now employment will be given only on merit and people would be trained to set up small scale industries so that they could start their own ventures.

The chief minister said that due to the “wrong policies” of the previous government, power utilities suffered a loss of about Rs 28,000 crore.

“15 hours power supply has been started on 83 feeders,” he said, adding that he has urged the people to ensure paying tax in lieu of better services.

Khattar said that earlier people had a fear that the tax paid by them was not utilised for welfare policies, but the present BJP government has changed their mentality and inculcated the feeling that money would be spent for their welfare only.

He said that the state government is preparing database of every individual in the state for effective implementation of welfare policies.

Monitoring Committees constituted at the level of Vidhan Sabha would not only monitor the development works but would also play a significant role in ensuring that the benefit of schemes percolate to the beneficiaries, he said.

The chief minister said the members of Monitoring Committees would have to understand the expectations and grievances of the people and provide them the information of welfare works undertaken by the government.

PTI