Context: Haryana’s legislation that mandates reservation to locals in private jobs opens up debates on the growing job crunch, threats of sub-nationalism and a diminishing role of states in the job creation matrix.
Root causes for Haryana legislation
Factors that control jobs:
Conclusion: There is a need for instituting a level playing field much greater fiscal freedom provided to the States; otherwise, the potent combination of widening inter-State inequality, a ‘rich States get richer’ economic development model, may fuel nativistic subnationalism in other states too.