Click to play videoMumbai: Corporates now have to get ready to answer some tough questions in Maharashtra thanks to a survey that the state government plans to undertake.
Maharashtra Labour Minister Nawab Malik on Thursday announced in the state Assembly that the there is a need to find out number of Maharashtrians employed in private companies in the state.
"We plan to undertake a survey to gauge the number of Maharashtrians working in each company," said Malik.
It is political stunt for the Marathi votebank before Assembly elections later in the year.
While Mallik's announcement drew rapturous support from the House, there were mixed reactions among employees working in companies across the city.
"It's a political gimmick," said an employee with a private company. Another said, "the next we know they will start keeping tabs on the number of Gujaratis, Muslims, etc. Are they crazy?"
"Does it really make sense? Going to each of the company and finding out how many of the employees talk Marathi," asked another employee.
The survey is a follow up to a recent government order that requires a minimum of 80 per cent of employees to be locals. This was done after the Opposition Shiv Sena created a ruckus on the issue of migrants in the Mumbai.
Most corporates are too wary to comment on the issue at the moment. But what they are still curious to know is just about how, the staff-stretched state government machinery plans to go about the survey process when there are over 32,000 private registered companies and with lakhs of employees in the state.
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