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Raise age limit for Government jobs, BJP tells Vasundhara

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, FEB. 19. The Bharatiya Janata Party has asked the Rajasthan Government to consider raising the upper age limit for entry into Government service by five years. The party's argument behind the suggestion is that the youth of the State, deprived of any job opportunity during the past five years when the Congress had been in power, needs to be compensated.

The idea of revising the upper age limit for jobs in the State from the existing 33 years was forwarded by the party functionaries to the Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, at a joint meeting of the BJP office-bearers and the State Cabinet here. "This is in order to rectify the situation created by the previous Congress Government,'' the party vice president, Onkar Singh Lakhawat, said when contacted. According to him, during the Congress regime no recruitments were made in the State and the youth deprived of jobs that time were now ineligible due to crossing the age limit.

The party has also reportedly told the Government to take up the long- pending demand of licenses to saw mills in the State as farmers who grow trees on their private land are finding it difficult to get remunerative prices in the absence of facilities for processing the timber. The party wanted the Government to study the existing Supreme Court orders in this regard and consider if more licenses could be issued for setting up saw mills.

In another suggestion the BJP leaders said power consumers should be given the option of getting their electronic metres checked by any reliable independent body. This was because the public generally had mistrust for the accuracy of the electronic metres, they said.

The meeting was attended by Ms. Raje, her Cabinet colleagues, the State president of the party, Lalit Kishore Chaturvedi, and senior party office-bearers. Such joint meetings of the party and the Government are proposed every Monday here in future.

"The meetings will ensure better coordination between the party and the Government. From the party functionaries, the Government would get suggestions and feedbacks. The organization would carry back the message of the Government, its programmes and policies to the people,'' Mr.Lakhawat said.

The joint meeting decided to finally launch the two times postponed "Dhanyavad yatra''(thanksgiving tour) of Ms.Raje in the State from February 21. The first date for the yatra was February 12 which was later postponed to February 17. The yatra will start from Jhalawar, the Lok Sabha seat held by Ms.Raje in the past.

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