Manik Sarkar
Agartala, Jan 15 : Chief minister Manik Sarkar said his government “has not enforced the ban imposed by the Centre on fresh employment, nor will it ever do so.” Sarkar said the main problem confronting Tripura now is “employment of educated youths” because a large number of employment generation schemes are being implemented in the state with honesty and efficiency. Addressing the inaugural programme of the state’s first ESI hospital at Nagerjala here today, the chief minister said, “In the present situation, worsened by global meltdown and loss of employment opportunities, curtailing employment at the government level will be suicidal. There is hardly any scope for private employment in our state.” Sarkar said more than one crore people would lose their livelihood as a result of global recession. “It is tragic that we are to pay a price for the blunders committed and wrong policies followed by governments in Europe and the US and that is so because of the globalisation,” he said. Lambasting the capitalist economic model based on vagaries of the market, profit motive and speculative investments, he said a balance in economic policy always needs to be struck by allowing the co-existence of private and public sectors. On the health sector, he said 97 per cent of the people were covered by the government-run service and medical facilities exist even in the remotest areas of the state. “Prolonged insurgency and anti-development activities of the militants led to the collapse of the health service in the interior areas but with the decline of insurgency, we are able to provide the services we did earlier,” said Sarkar. He also referred to the “vast improvement” in the health sector in Tripura over the past decade and said “very soon” people of the state will not need to go outside for advanced treatment.
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