BMS urges govt to promote labour intensive industry

Criticising the government's existing economic model, an RSS affiliate today asked the government to focus on wage-led and job-led growth and evolve such human-centric policies that promote rural economy.
Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), an affiliate of RSS - the ruling BJP's ideological mentor, urged government to promote labour-intensive industry instead of capital-intensive industry that it is currently giving importance to.
"The economic model pursued by the government has failed as it has increased poverty and widened the gap between the poor and rich. The government has focussed on promoting urban economy and ignoring rural-based economy has been a mistake.
"The government should instead focus on a model which propels wage-led and job-led growth, promotes the rural economy by including human-centric policies," BMS general secretary Virjesh Upadhyay told PTI.

He asked government to promote industries like garments, textiles and food processing, that help promote labour.
The BMS leader also asked government for helping convert skill development initiatives launched by it into turning youth as professionals who possess high-end skills.

"With the drive we are running currently, we will produce only mechanics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that India has a lot of human capital and there is need to channelise them into high-end jobs," he said.
Upadhyay also opposed government move to amend labour laws at a time when the BJP-led NDA is pushing big-ticket programmes such as skill development and Make in India.

He lamented that people at junior levels continue to earn meagre salaries and the government's initiative to push FDI into the country has "failed".
He said the rich have turned richer and the gap between the rich and the poor have "widened further".
The BMS lader also said that the World Bank in its report has already stated that there is jobless growth across the world and the world is soon realising that no one has benefitted from globalisation.