YSR Congress party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has been taking certain daring and dashing decisions ever since he assumed power on May 30 this year.
Some of his decisions have drawn a lot of criticism from not only the opposition parties, but also independent analysts.
Even the national media wrote negative stories about his decisions, without actually understanding the spirit behind the decisions.
This is mainly due to lack of proper information from the authorities and even the public relations wing officials could not properly take the message into the media.
Take for instance, the decision of Jagan government to provide 75 per cent reservation in the employment in the private sector.
This is a revolutionary decision to provide employment opportunities to locals, who are moving out to other states in search of jobs.
But, unfortunately, it was not properly projected in the media and even the PR department could not give proper clarification on this decision.
Everybody thought this rule is applicable to all private industries, including Information Technology industry, where the employability is very high.
This has triggered a lot of hue and cry in the national media, which found fault with the decision and said no software company would be able to come to Andhra Pradesh, if 75 percent-jobs-to-locals rule is implemented. The IT firms look for talent pool, wherever it is, and not the local factor.
For instance, a large percentage of employees in software companies in Bengaluru are Telugus and Tamilians. If the same rule is implemented in Karnataka, Telugus would lose the jobs.
The officials of the Jagan government failed to clarify was that the quota-for-locals rule is not applicable to software industry.
“It is there in the act that the rule is applicable only to manufacturing sector, not services sector. But the authorities failed to convey the same to the people properly, thereby creating panic,” an official said.
