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skilling is key to equip locals to meet evolving industry demands as employment is based on merit and not domicile. HR experts believe implementing a legislation like the job-for-locals bill would pose significant challenges for businesses in talent acquisition, compliance costs and stressed on the importance of skilling to equip individuals with future-proof skillsets. The Karnataka government on July 15, tabled the Karnataka State Employment of Local Candidates in the Industries, Factories and Other Establishments Bill, 2024, in state assembly. The Bill, which mandated factory or other establishments to appoint 50 per cent of local candidates in management categories and 70 per cent in non-management categories, has been temporarily put on hold.

IT cities like Hyderabad, Pune, and Delhi-NCR due to more investor-friendly employment policies, reported TOI. Telangana might become the state that benefits the most as it offers incentive-based employer policies, while Hyderabad has been in tough competition with India's start-up capital, Bengaluru. The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government’s new reservation demands for locals in Karnataka might lead to flight risks by several investors currently based in India’s Silicon Valley. “All the GCC movement is in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Future growth will start moving to competing cities like Hyderabad and even Pune and Delhi NCR,” said a top executive official of a global financial services giant to TOI. Moreover, though HYSEA president Prashant Nandella told TOI it is still too early to speculate, he believes such a policy might benefit pro-industry states such as Telangana. In addition, former CII Telangana Vagish Dixit told TOI that investors have a choice to move and might fly to other states as a result of such counterproductive policies.

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Congress and its government in Karnataka find themselves in a quandary over the now «temporarily» halted proposed law framed to ensure quota for locals in private sector jobs. According to some party leaders, if the bill was born out of the political compulsions of the Karnataka Congress and its government to fulfill their electoral promises, its halting in the wake of the protests from industry demonstrated the government's administrative compulsions to be sensitive to the backslash from business and investors to the proposals and avert a capital flight from Bengaluru. Congress leaders pointed out that the party's election manifesto in the run-up to the state assembly election had promised such a quota in the private sector.

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Assam government has decided to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorce Registration Act and Rules 1935 through the Assam Repealing Bill 2024. The government will table legislation in the next monsoon session of the state assembly. The state cabinet had its meeting on Thursday. Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated in X, “We have taken a significant step to ensure justice for our daughters and sisters by putting additional safeguards against child marriage. In the meeting of the state cabinet today we have decided to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorce Registration Act and Rules 1935 vide the Assam Repealing Bill 2024”. He explained, “To bring parity in registration of marriage and divorce, the State Cabinet has accorded approval to The Assam Repealing Bill,2024 which aims to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriages And Divorces Registration Act, 1935 and Assam Muslim Marriages And Divorces Registration Rules, 1935. The Bill will be placed before the next Monsoon Session of Assam Legislative Assembly for consideration”.

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private companies has not yet been discussed in detail in the Cabinet as he came under pressure from the Opposition BJP to present the draft law in the ongoing legislature session itself. “There was some confusion (over the bill). We will clear the confusion in the coming days,” the CM posted on microblogging site X, while adding that it would be placed again before the Cabinet for detailed discussions. In a last-minute decision, Siddaramaiah Wednesday night announced putting the jobs bill on hold after it triggered widespread backlash from captains of the tech industry and the industry body NASSCOM.

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bill mandating reservation for Kannadigas in the private sector, sparking an uproar. The decision was taken at the Cabinet meeting held on Monday and was subsequently put on hold after backlash from business honchos and tech tycoons. Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah said in a post on X, “The bill approved by the cabinet to provide reservation for Kannadigas in private sector organizations, industries and enterprises has been temporarily put on hold.”

As this week began, Karnataka’s government stirred up a hornet’s nest with its bid to legislate private-sector job reservations. A bill okayed by the state cabinet would have half of all management job roles filled by candidates who have long been residents of the state, as also 75% of non-managerial jobs.

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Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said his government's priority is to look after the welfare of Kannadigas as they are not getting jobs in their own land, responding to the criticism over the state's proposed law mandating quotas in jobs for locals in private industries. «We are a pro-Kannada government. We want to help Kannadigas lead a peaceful life with a job in their own land,» he said in a post on microblogging platform X. Within hours after his post, he announced he was putting the bill on hold after the proposed law came under widespread attack. The CM, in a post on X, said the government would revisit the bill after elaborate discussion at the next cabinet meeting. He had called the proposed law a historic effort towards protecting the interests of local Kannadigas and reversing the deprivation of jobs for them.

Karnataka Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill mandating 100% reservation for Kannadigas in the private sector for Group C and D posts, a look at similar laws in other states that didn't pass the court test. In November last year, the Punjab and Haryana High Court struck down a similar law passed by the BJP-led government in Haryana. The Haryana government had passed a law that mandated 75% reservation for locals in private sector jobs having a gross monthly salary of less than Rs 30,000. Terming it «unconstitutional», a division bench of the Punjab and Haryana HC had struck down the law.

Sharad Pawar who heads his own faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) does not seem to be in favour of the Karnataka Congress government's move to bring in a bill that reserves jobs for locals in the private sector. Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that the bill passed by Karnataka will not pass judicial scrutiny. This even as the Congress in Maharashtra batting for a similar such law in Maharashtra. " The Karnataka government's decision will not be upheld in the court, it will be struck down..«said Pawar when asked by journalists. Pawar also took on the freebie and sops being announced by the Maharashtra government saying that it was not fiscally prudent and would hurt the state financially. He added, » This ladki bahin yojna(where women in the state get Rs 1500 per month from the state and this ladka bhau(stipend for educated youths)… Iam worried about the (fiscal) situation of the state. There was a time when Maharashtra was in the list of first three states when it came to states having the highest per capita income. The figures by the Niti Ayog a few days back shows that we have slipped to 11 now, this is worrisome.«said Pawar.

Mint explains the domino impact this decision can have on employment and investments across sectors: The IT and ITes sector, which employs millions, has warned that investments will dry up on the back of such protectionist measures. Industry body Nasscom that represents the IT companies said it was "seriously concerned" and urged the state government to withdraw the bill. In a statement on Wednesday, the industry body said the tech sector contributes 25% to the state's GDP.

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Karnataka expressed their apprehensions about the new Bill approved by the cabinet that mandates 100 per cent reservation for Kannadigas in «C&D» grade government jobs, state Commerce and Industries Minister MB Patil said that they will have wide consultations, resolve the confusion and ensure that interests of Kannadigas are protected along with those of industries. «I have seen that many people have apprehension regarding this...We will resolve this confusion...We will sit with the CM and resolve this so that it does not have any adverse effect...,» Patil said speaking to on Wednesday. «Keeping the interests of #Kannadigas paramount, I will discuss this issue with the Hon'ble CM Sh @siddaramaiah, IT-BT Minister, Law Minister, and Labour Minister. We will have wider consultations. We will ensure that the interests of Kannadigas are protected, alongside those of the industries,» Patil said in a post on 'X'.