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National
Efforts for Providing Jobs to Local Sons Of Soil, Constitutional
Provisions
AND
Dr
Sarojini Mahishi Report Recommending Jobs For Kannadiga Sons of
the Soil.
35 years back......
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1968, June 22nd: National Integration Council noted the dissatisfaction
among population in various states due to discrimination being
perpetrated by migrant population in employment of local sons
of the soil. Hence NATIONAL INTEGRATION COUNCIL RECOMMENDED THAT
THE MAJORITY OF THE JOBS SHALL BE GIVEN TO LOCAL SONS OF THE SOIL.
20
years back......
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1983, Aug 4th: Smt. Margaret Alva Kannadigara Employment Committee
was set up by Karnataka government.
17
years back......
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1986, December 30th: Dr. Sarojini Mahishi Committee submitted
its Report: ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF DR.SAROJINI MAHISHI COMMITTEE
ARE IN CONCURRENCE WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF NATIONAL INTEGRATION
COUNCIL. This committee was constituted in 1983 STUDIED THIS GIGANTIC
PROBLEM IN DETAIL FOR THREE YEARS and made a total of 58 recommendations.
It submitted its INTERIM REPORT ON 13-6-1984 and FINAL REPORT
on 30-12-1986. We have enclosed details in annexure-1. Dr.Sarojini
Mahishi, Member of Parliament was Chairperson of this committee.
It had Prof. Gopala Krishna Adiga, Shri. G.K.Satya, Shri.G.Narayana
Kumar, MLA, Shri.K.Prabhakara Reddy, Shri.B.S.Hanuman, IAS (Rtd),
and Dr.Siddayya Puranik, IAS (Rtd) as its members.
15
years back......
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1988, May 10th: Dr. V. Venkatesh Kannadigara Employment Committee
was set up by Karnataka government: This committee was set up
to review, prioritize the recommendations based on importance
and implement the recommendations given in Dr.Sarojini Mahishi
Committee Report. The committee had Dr.V.Venkatesh Member of Parliament
as its Chairman. It had Shri.D.B.Chandre Gowda, Rajyasabha Member,
Shri.G.Narayana Kumar,MLA, Shri.K.Prabhakara Reddy and Shri.P.V.Narayana
as its members.
13
years back......
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1990, March 16th: Karnataka Government sets up Cabinet Sub Committee:
This was constituted to examine the recommendations of both- Dr.
Sarojini Mahishi Committee and Dr. V. Venkatesh Kannadigara Employment
Committee. Based on its recommendation KARNATAKA GOVERNMENT HAS
ACCEPTED 45 RECOMMENDATIONS and issued G.O. in respect of them.
The government has also CONSTITUTED A CABINET SUB COMMITTEE AND
A HIGH LEVEL AND A HIGH LEVEL OFFICIALS COMMITTEE TO MONITOR IMPLEMENTATION
OF REPORT. The implementation process for 45 accepted recommendations
has been handed over to 7 DEPARTMENTS.
11
years back......
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1993, February 6th: Constitution of KANNADA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
under the Chairmanship of Shri. G. Narayana FOR PREPARATION OF
ACTION PLAN FOR EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF DR.SAROJINI MAHISHI
REPORT: Kannada Development Authority had conducted numerous meetings
with officials to monitor the progress and FOUND THAT THERE IS
LACK OF CO-ORDINATION AMONG DEPARTMENTS IN IMPLEMENTATION.
Dr.Sarojini Mahishi Committee Recommendations:
Recommendation
Sl.No.1:
State
government shall ensure that recommendations of National Integration
council are implemented, through implementation of Dr.Sarojini
Committee recommendations, as the recommendations of Dr Sarojini
Mahishi committee are in concurrence with the recommendations
of the National Integration Council.The state government shall
also request Union government for help wherever required.
Recommendation Sl.No.2:
Central
Government public sector units in Karnataka shall employ Kannadigas
as follows:
*Class IV (Group D) Positions: 100%
*Positions with a pay scale up to Rs. 1250: 80%
*Other positions filled on basis of direct recruitment: 65%
*ONLY KANNDIGAS SHALL BE SELECTED TO POSITIONS, WHICH HAVE LESS
NUMBER OF KANNADIGAS AT PRESENT, TILL THE RECOMMENDED PERCENTAGE
IS ACIEVED.
Recommendation Sl.No.3:
Only
Kannadigas shall be employed by Karnataka state public sector
units , exception can only be made in rare cases for positions
which require very high level of technical qualifications and
that too when Kannadiga candidates are not available.Department
of commerce and Industry shall be vigilant for implementation
of this principle.
Recommendation Sl.No.4:
It
shall be made mandatory for all private industries to employ only
Kannadigas for all positions exception can only be made in rare
cases for top management positions which require very high level
of technical qualifications and that too when Kannadiga candidates
are not available.Karnataka government can exert pressure on private
industries, as they are supplied land, water and electricity on
priority basis from government.
Recommendation Sl.No.5:
Apprentices
shall be appointed only through employment exchanges hence Union
and Karnataka government shall issue orders to this effect.
Recommendation Sl.No.6:
Head
of Department and majority of other officers of Personnel department
in Central public sector units shall be Kannadigas. If Kannadigas
are not available then State government officials can appointed
on deputation basis.State government shall exert pressure on Union
government to achieve this purpose. This principle shall be implemented
in case of state government public sector units also.
Recommendation Sl.No.7:
The
Employment Exchanges (compulsory notification of vacancies) Act
1959 shall be amended as follows:
*Section
4: It shall be compulsory to fill the vacancies from the list
of candidates provided by concerned employment exchange, which
has been notified.
*Section 4: Appointment of candidates from other sources shall
be allowed only when eligible candidates are not available from
any of the employment exchanges in the Karnataka state.
*Section 3 (1) (d): Act shall be made applicable to unskilled
workers also.
Recommendation Sl.No.8:
Government
departments and Public sector units of both central and state
government shall ask employment exchanges for candidates having
Kannada knowledge.
Recommendation Sl.No.9:
Registering
officer of employment exchange shall check following documents
as the proof of candidate's residence for 15 years domicile in
Karnataka before registering:
*School certificate: S.S.L.C.
*Ration Card.
*Voters List. (Candidate’s or parents or guardian's name
shall be available in it)
*Birth Certificate.Candidate’s language knowledge shall be
examined in suitable manner before registering, by the registering
officer.
Recommendation Sl.No.10:
Illiterates
can be registered if they have capacity to speak Kannada language
and provide proof for their 15 years residence in Karnataka.
Recommendation Sl.No.11:
Postal
registration in employment exchange shall be stopped, as there
is no chance to check the candidate's Kannada language knowledge
in this method. REGISTRATION SHALL BE DONE ONLY WHEN CLEAR EVIDENCE
IS AVAILABLE.
Recommendation Sl.No.12:
There
shall be registering facility available at taluka level and their
automatic inclusion in the district registers as it is difficult
for rural candidates to come to district employment exchange for
registering.
Recommendation Sl.No.13:
These
measures shall be under taken to stop rapidly decreasing number
of jobs under the purview of (applicability powers) employment
exchanges:
*Daily
wages workers, Casual workers, and apprentices shall be selected
in Central and State government’s public sectors only through
employment exchanges.
*Group
D vacancies in central government shall be filled only through
employment exchanges; state government shall make a request in
this regard.
*State
public sector units shall compulsorily recruit through employment
exchanges, except in cases when suitable candidates are not available.
*Private
enterprises for whom CNV act is applicable, shall also compulsorily
recruit through employment exchanges, except in cases when suitable
candidates are not available.
*NUMBER
OF CANDIDATES PLACED ON EMPLOYMENT THROUGH THE EMPLYMENT EXCHANGE
SHALL BE PERFORMANCE STANDARD FOR THE APPRAISAL OF EMPLOYMENT
EXCHANGE OFFICIALS. This is essential to eliminate the inactiveness
of the officials and unleash their creativity for providing solution
to the problem.
Recommendation Sl.No.14:
Candidates
passed S.S.L.C or degree in Karnataka shall only be considered
as eligible by banking recruitment boards. These boards shall
publish their advertisements in at least one state level newspaper.
Recommendation Sl.No.15:
Banking
recruitment boards shall be asked to include one paper for testing
Kannada knowledge in their competitive examinations.
Recommendation Sl.No.16:
Banking
recruitment boards shall clearly mention in their advertisement
that Kannada knowledge essential.
Recommendation Sl.No.17:
Banks
shall conduct their business in Kannada, as this will help customer
service and also employment of Kannada people.
Recommendation Sl.No.18:
Central
government shall include state government representative in banking
recruitment boards, to ensure justice.
Recommendation Sl.No.19:
Some
central government departments are directly employing non-Kannadigas
to unskilled jobs (physical labour) and daily wage jobs without
taking candidates through employment exchanges and they are confirming
their service after some months. This Unfair labour practice shall
be stopped.
Recommendation Sl.No.20:
Kannada
knowledge shall be essential for all the jobs reserved for ex
servicemen, SC and ST in state government and its public sector
units, this is essential prevent non Kannadigas getting these
jobs.
Recommendation Sl.No.21:
Admission
in technical and other training colleges in the state for outside
state people shall be limited to max of 5%; this is essential
to stop outsiders getting jobs because of this.21(a): G.O.CI.121SPC.82
dated 30 October 1982 has declared many incentives and concessions
for attracting investments in industry. It shall be made mandatory
for such industries to give employment to only Kannadigas to get
concessions from government.
Recommendation
Sl.No.22:
Union
government had enacted "The public employment (Requirement
as to residence) Act 1957" making the RESIDENCE IN THE STATE
MANDATORY TO CERTAIN POSTS IN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FOR BENEFIT OF
SOME STATES LIKE ANDHRA PRADESH ETC.Now Karnataka government shall
REQUEST CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO ENACT SIMILAR ACT FOR KARNATAKA
With initial applicability of law for minimum 10 years.
Recommendation Sl.No.23:
Persons
losing land for industries shall be given job at the rate of at
least one job per family and more jobs in proportion to higher
loss of land.Such industries shall start within stipulated time.
Recommendation Sl.No.24:
There
shall be a state government representative in recruitment committees
of private industries employing more than 100 people.
Recommendation Sl.No.25:
State
government representatives in recruitment committees shall send
report to state government about the working of such committees
and an authority shall be established to examine these reports.
Such authority shall be given statutory status. If necessary its
branches shall be established at division level also.
Recommendation Sl.No.26:
Certain
industries are giving preference to their employee's children
while giving employment. This will only aggravate problem in industries
where non-Kannadigas are in majority. This method shall be disbanded.
Recommendation Sl.No.27:
Some
local Kannadiga employees are misusing medical certificate given
by Employees state Insurance corporation during farming season.
Employers are using this as pretext for not employing locals.
Hence to remove this alibi, ESI doctors shall be directed to work
honestly while issuing such certificates.
Recommendation Sl.No.28:
Employers
shall submit a declaration every year stating their compliance
regarding providing stipulated numbers of employment to Kannadigas.
Similar system is being practiced in Maharastra. Responsibility
for getting this declaration and its examination shall rest with
the proposed authority as given in recommendation number 25.
Recommendation Sl.No.29:
Cement
industries are being established in Gulbarga district. Hence training
centers shall be established in cement technology and related
issues.
Recommendation Sl.No.30:
Action
shall be taken to encourage employment of Kannadigas in ancillary
units, while giving permission it self.
Recommendation Sl.No.31:
Commerce
and Industry department in case of establishment and expansion
of industry and Karnataka State finance corporation in case of
financing the industry, shall inform employment exchange about
employment potential, who shall strive for selection of candidates
registered with them.
Recommendation Sl.No.32:
Central
government shall be requested to allow the use of deposits in
non-resident Kannadiga accounts for starting industry on condition
of giving employment to Kannadigas.
Recommendation Sl.No.33:
OFFICERS
HAVING SYMPATHY FOR KANNADIGAS AND HAVING THEIR INTEREST FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF KANNADA SHALL ONLY BE APPOINTED TO IMPORTANT POSITIONS IN THE
STATE GOVERNMENT.
Recommendation Sl.No.34:
Candidates
shall be questioned fully in Kannada and made to reply in Kannada
during a job interview. Office Memorandum-DCAR 38 SCR 83 dated
20 July 1983 allowing partial Kannada interview shall be amended
accordingly.
Recommendation Sl.No.35:
There
shall be a compulsory Kannada paper in all the competitive examination
conducted by Public Service Commission and other recruitment committees.
Rules shall be amended so that persons failing in this Kannada
paper shall not be eligible for appointment.
Recommendation Sl.No.36:
Public
service commission shall conduct a Kannada exam for appointment
done through interview only.
Recommendation Sl.No.37:
Following
action shall taken so that shortage of SC and ST candidates is
eliminated:
*In
case candidates are not available in the register of employment
exchange, then publish advertisement in newspapers – Radio-television
and notify SC/ST development department.
*Representative
of SC/ST development department shall be included in the recruitment
committees of all the departments.
*Standing
order shall be issued to industries to contact SC/ST development
commissioner when such candidates are not available.
*Department
shall monitor all advertisements and guide the eligible candidates
registered in department.
Recommendation Sl.No.38:
Kannadigas
shall be given preference while awarding contract in irrigation
projects. WHILE AWARDING THE IT SHALL BE MADE SURE THAT CONTRACT
AGREEMENT INCLUDES CONDITION TO GIVE JOBS FOR KANNADIGAS ONLY.
Recommendation Sl.No.39:
Small
agriculturists lose the benefits of irrigation in command areas
by selling land to outsiders. This shall be stopped by bring in
legislation like "The Maharastra Resettlement of Project
displaced Persons Act, 1976". Secondly government shall also
help small agriculturists.
Recommendation Sl.No.40:
Persons
trained in special skills required by industries in state can
be supplied from Karnataka itself by arranging for such training
in industrial training centers and engineering colleges. The committee
has visited industries and compiled a list technical skills required
by them. Government shall make suitable arrangement for implementation
of this measure.
Recommendation Sl.No.41:
There
shall be a system in primary school level to voluntarily get the
vocational training.
Recommendation Sl.No.42:
Industrial
training centers and employment exchanges shall opened in industrial
estates and places where large industries are located, to increase
the chances of Kannadigas employment.
Recommendation Sl.No.43:
Respected
persons from Karnataka shall be made members of railway recruitment
board. Kannada knowledge shall be made compulsory and examined
for it. Retrenched daily wageworkers shall be re-employed in their
respective linguistic states, while re-employing.
Recommendation Sl.No.44:
Railways
are recruiting casual workers with out openly inviting applications
and without informing employment exchange. Since further these
workers are selected for group D posts, it shall be made sure
that while recruiting casual workers employment exchange and gram
panchayat are notified and open advertisement shall be given in
news papers.
Recommendation Sl.No.45:
Railways
shall establish a southwestern zone to improve chances of Kannadigas
employment.
Recommendation Sl.No.46:
Efforts
being made to shift 100 years old railway workshop from Hubli
shall opposed and ensure that workshop is retained in Hubli.
Recommendation Sl.No.47:
Following
rules shall be for allotment of residential sites to Kannadigas
on preferential basis in important towns of Karnataka:
*Applicant
shall have 15 years residence in Karnataka.
*Residence
shall be proved through school certificate, ration card, voters
list and birth certificate.
*Serving
military persons and persons staying outside state for reasons
of studying or employment shall only given exemption from 15 years
residence requirement. No one else shall need to be given this
exemption.
*Private
residential layouts shall abide by BDA rules and shall obtain
approval of BDA before allotment of sites.q Co-operative housing
societies layouts shall abide by BDA rules and shall obtain approval
of BDA before allotment of sites.
Recommendation Sl.No.48:
Karnataka
government shall PROCURE 30% OF ALL JOBS FOR KANNADIGAS WITHIN
A SPECIFIED TIME. IT SHALL DISBAND UNNECESSARY PUBLICITY IN THIS
REGARD AND SPEAK THROUGH ITS IMPLEMENTATION. This committee hereby
advises the KARANATAKA GOVERNMANT TO SHOW THE COURAGE in this
matter.
Recommendation Sl.No.49:
It
is natural for Kannadigas being employed in NABARD, whose purpose
is to help the farmers of Karnataka. It shall also have a recruitment
committee for Karnataka in Bangalore.
Recommendation Sl.No.50:
Central
government public sector units shall employ through NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT
EXCHANGE for jobs whose pay scale does not exceed Rs 1250. p.m.,
according to union government office memorandum dated 8.3.84.
This pay scale limit shall be increased to Rs. 1600. p.m., and
also be revised whenever pay scale is revised.
Recommendation Sl.No.51:
Misuse
of forest produce shall be stopped to help the industries especially
dependent on forest produce.
Recommendation Sl.No.52:
There
shall be system to identify the type of industries which can be
established in Karnataka and project reports be published for
them.
Recommendation Sl.No.53:
A
branch of STAFF SELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA shall be established
in Karnataka.
Recommendation Sl.No.54:
E.M.D.
exemption order shall be issued for longer term like three or
five years and renewal shall be issued before year-end.
Recommendation Sl.No.55:
Karnataka
legislative assembly already has a committee for Public Sector
Units, which monitors accounts, efficiency and other issues in
respect of corporations, boards and companies under its purview.
If this committee also monitors the issue of justified representation
for Kannadigas, then there is no doubt that it will have a strong
impact on top management of these units. Suitable amendments shall
be made in the rules regarding working of committee to enable
this monitoring.
Recommendation Sl.No.56:
Public
Service Commission and other selection committees shall publish
recruitment advertisements only in the newspapers published in
Karnataka.
Recommendation Sl.No.57:
Karnataka
government shall publish a paper on lines of Employment news.
Recommendation Sl.No.58:
Un
necessary languages like French, German, Latin, Pali, Persian,
Russian, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic shall be removed from subject
list of gazetted probationers competitive examination.
End
of Dr.Mahishi Report
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Points
to Ponder
*G.O.-DPAR
37 SLC 84 dated 2-2-1985 has defined the term "KANNADIGA"
as follows: " Kannadiga means a person who can read, write
and talk in Kannada and has working knowledge of Kannada".
*According
to 1971 census percentage of Kannada speaking people is only 65.94%
in Karnataka and 32.47% in Bangalore.
*We
shall discuss direct constitutional provisions on which Dr. Sarojini
Mahishi report is based after you read this and send your opinion,
suggestion for improvement of report serial number wise.
*If
you are an advocate and wish to render your service, we welcome
whole-heartedly.
*We
must remember that these recommendations are 20 years old and
attempt to address the problems of sons of soil in an old manufacturing
economy of pre globalisation era.Even these harmless recommendations
were implemented half heartedly by ALIEN dominated bureaucracy
through successive governments irrespective of colour of political
parties.We need to update these recommendations in tune with globalised
economy dominated by service industries,BPO through learning by
others examples like USA, who had faced such problems earlier.
*We
must also remember that this ALIEN dominated bureaucracy shows
loyalty to its native land through sabotaging interests of Kannada
people from fundamental issue issue like water to award of contract
for daily garbage collection by BMP.Hence we lose court battles
in Kaveri and Krishna, by depending on them.
*But
there is an opposite example of what we can achieve if we unshackle
from ALIENS: Farmers of JEWARGI town (Shri. Dharam Singh's Constituency)in
Gulbarga district went Supreme Court by collecting contributions
from citizens and won case for Bheema water against Maharastra.
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