Wrong on Political, Economic Grounds

Context: The Haryana government has decided to reserve 75% of private-sector jobs(paying less than Rs. 50,000 a month) for residents of the state.

Arguments against such reservation:

• Can kill off industrial and economic growth: in manufacturing and service sector hubs.

• Gurugram’s thriving IT and IT-enabled services industries are likely to migrate to Greater Noida or even Pune if the law is enforced.

• Tedious compliance requirements: Companies must settle for lesser than the best in accordance with hiring a local candidate, spending time and money verifying the local claim.

• Prone to corruption: It gives civil servants extraordinary discretionary powers to exempt a company’s hiring from the ‘vocal for local’ quota mandate.
• Violates the spirit of the Constitution of India: that seeks to build a unified nation out of the land’s extreme diversity, also setting a bad precedent. It disregards certain rights like. - 

• Article 14 - a guarantee of equality
• Article 15 - a guarantee against non-discrimination based on place of birth
• Article 19 - a guarantee of the right to work anywhere in the country.

Way Forward:

• The Haryana government must withdraw the Bill.
• If the state doesn’t withdraw, then the Centre must advise the President to withhold his consent.