GS 3: Economy | Development & Employment

Why in News?

Sikkim has recently launched the ‘One Family One Job’ scheme which entitles one government job for every family in the state.

Scheme – Highlights:

• The scheme envisions employment to a member of every family which does not have a government job in the state. Under this scheme, all loan debts in the farming and agriculture sector would be revoked.
• At present recruitments are being made for Group C and Group D posts in 12 government departments. The letters were awarded only to members of those families which do not have a government job at present.
• The task of providing employment was entrusted to the Department of Personnel.
• Over 25,000 already employed but unregularised government employees would also be subsequently regularized within 2019 according to their seniority.
• Sikkim has become the first state in the country to carry out such an exclusive programme for the people who would now be entitled to state government employee benifits.
• Sikkim was the only state that earmarks 70 per cent of its revenues towards salaries for state government employees. As of now, the state government has over 1 lakh regularised employees on its rolls from a population of just 6.4 lakh.
• Sikkim is also the only state in the country that gives the highest salaries to state government employees.