Congress focusses on jobs as the key driver for economic growth
Party’s priorities include urban employment guarantee, allowances for home-makers and students, law on domestic help
Party’s priorities include urban employment guarantee, allowances for home-makers and students, law on domestic help
An urban employment guarantee Act on the lines of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA); an allowance for home-makers; an education allowance for children completing school on a need-cum-merit basis; a complete fee waiver for applicants to government jobs; a law to regulate employment of domestic help; and free legal aid to working/self-employed women could be some of the Congress’ key election ideas going ahead, after the party argued for a reset of economic policies at its Udaipur Nav Sankalp chintar shivir earlier this month.
The Ashok Gehlot-led government in election-bound Rajasthan already announced an urban job scheme last week to guarantee 100 days of urban…
