Bring in policies to rehabilitate NRI Kannadigas who are returning after losing jobs: CM urged
SDPI state secretary and social activist Riyaz Farangipet, in a letter, recommended the new CM Kumaraswamy to take necessary steps for the rehabilitation of non-resident Kannadigas, who are returning home with empty hands, after losing their jobs due to the crisis in Gulf countries.
Today, countless Indians are staying in Gulf countries as non-resident Indians to win bread for their families here. These NRIs have given their contribution to this country as long as employment and trading were good in abroad. According to a recent report from World Bank, India is at the top of the list of the countries that saved money in banks from abroad. With this, India's economy is progressing along with the generation of revenue. We need to know the fact that 50 percent of this income comes from the Gulf countries.
A large number of these non-resident Indians are Kannadigas. Kannadigas have always been philanthropists. Among them, the coastal Kannadigas are always on their toes for social service. We have seen a lot of community services, education institutions, hospitals and many social service institutions run by these NRI Kannadigas. Also, they are spending their hard earned money in indigent patients’ treatment, in educational and housing facilities.
However; due to changed conditions in Gulf, Gulf countries’ localised policies and new labor laws; many NRIs have lost their jobs, and a few others are in fear of losing the same. Even the self-employed are not safe from this. About 40 percent of the NRI Kannadigas have already returned to their homelands after losing their jobs. Other 60 percent, who lost their jobs in Gulf countries, are counting days to return to Karnataka.
The non-resident Kannadigas who were giving donations once upon a time, are now in a position to beg. In a letter written to the Chief Minister, Riaz Farangipete has said that HD Kumaraswamy who was taken oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka should consider all such issues and implement a project to provide jobs to the non-resident Kannadigas who have been returning to their motherland and thus bring back the happiness among unemployed non-resident Kannadigas. You have become a Kalpavruksha for farmers and now, you should become oasys for unemployed non-resident Kannadigas, he said in the letter.
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Women's quota bill would have ensured defeat of democracy, Constitution: Aaditya Thackeray
Mumbai (PTI): Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said that the passage of the women's quota bill would have ensured a "total defeat of democracy", alleging that the legislation, linked with a delimitation exercise, was a political tool designed to reduce the voice of states.
Thackeray, in a post on X, claimed that the Bill would have amended the Constitution for the political means of the ruling regime to increase seats, reduce the voice of many states and enable the gerrymandering of constituencies to ensure unfair victories.
"The very amendment that would have ensured the total defeat of democracy and the Constitution in India stands rejected by the unity of the Opposition MPs," he wrote.
The legislation should have been called "Delimitation to ensure unfair victory Bill", the former minister said, adding that there was a genuine need to enable 33 per cent reservation for women in the current number of seats.
"Now, it is up to the government to ensure that it is implemented in the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha for the 2029 elections and all elections across India, if that is the real intent of the government," he wrote.
A Constitution Amendment Bill to implement reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats was defeated on Friday in the Lower House.
While 298 members voted in support of the Bill, 230 MPs voted against it. Out of 528 members who voted, the Bill required 352 votes for a two-thirds majority.
According to the Constitution Amendment Bill, Lok Sabha seats were to be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
