Context: Recently, the draft proposal -Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Ordinance, 2020- was approved by the cabinet under the chairmanship of Chief Minister of Haryana.
Key Points

• The draft ordinance aims to address the aspect of unemployment of the local population on a priority basis.
• It seeks a 75 percent reservation for the state’s local youth in the new employment opportunities of various private companies that will provide a salary of less than Rs 50,000.
• Besides privately managed companies, the ordinance covers societies, trusts, partnership firms and Limited Liability Partnership firms located in Haryana.
• The employees getting a monthly salary below Rs 50,000 would now have to register on the portal of labour department, which would be free of cost facility. 
• The companies that fail to register on the portal will have to pay a fine of Rs 25,000 to Rs one lakh.
• The candidates seeking to take benefit of the scheme will require a domicile certificate. 
• The private employers will, however, have the option to recruit local candidates from one district to only 10 percent.
• There will also be an exemption if suitable local candidates are not available for a particular category of industry. 
• However, in this, the private companies will need to inform the labour department and only that they will be permitted to hire youth from other states.

Impact of this move

• The availability of suitable workforce locally would definitely enhance the efficiency of the industry and commercial establishment.
• Further, the state government has decided to give preference to local candidates in low-paid jobs as it is socially, economically and environmentally desirable.