Goa minister seeks 80% jobs for locals
Mayuresh Pawar / Panaji September 01, 2005
In view of the growing number of unemployed youth in the state, Goa
industry minister Luizinho Faleiro has asked all the industries to must
give at least 80 per cent of the jobs to local Goans.
“We will take an undertaking from the companies in this regard,” he said.
The industries in the state would have to be ‘Goan friendly’ and not ‘Goan
hostile’, Faliero stressed.
Asked, from where will the trained manpower come, the optimistic Faleiro
claimed, “If the industries don’t get manpower, the government will
provide the required personnel,” adding, that the government intended to
train manpower.
He further said that the government is working very hard to improve the
industrial situation in the state and expressed confidence that the
efforts would bear fruits, to convert Goa into an “alternative” and an
“attractive” industrial destination in the country.
Besides the Food Processing Park in the Quepem taluka, Garment, Pharma and
Bio-tech parks are also in the pipeline, the minister said.
On the Food Processing Park, Faleiro said that the Centre is backing the
project fully and that there will be a state-of-the-art infrastructure in
warehousing, refrigeration, quality control, pollution control, storage,
etc.
For the proposed Garment Park, the state has already sought assistance
from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, while the Pharma Park
would come up at the Keri plateau, where DuPont’s Nylon 6.6 plant was
planned in the mid-90s.
The entrepreneur would get a tax holiday for the first five years and in
the subsequent five years, only 25 per cent would be taxed.
--
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
