“Nobody Is Being Forced To Go,” CM Khattar On Guv Decision Of Recruiting Workers For Israel

Chandigarh

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar backed his government's decision to release an advertisement calling for recruiting 10,000 construction workers who will be sent to Israel and said, Nobody is being forced to go, and it's up to their choice whether they want to go or not.

Notably, the Haryana government has released an advertisement recruiting 10,000 construction workers who will be sent to Israel, a country that has been locked in a war with Hamas for over two months and faces an acute shortage of labourers.

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar says, that we are ready to supply manpower where there is a need in different countries. Israel asked us for 1000 manpower, we released an advertisement that those who are skilled should apply, there are a lot of countries where there is a need for manpower, the youth should be sent systematically and take all legal procedures into consideration. Earlier, Israel's construction sector has said that it asked the government to allow companies to hire up to 100,000 workers from India to replace 90,000 Palestinians who lost their work permits since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Voice of America (VOA) reported. The Israeli construction sector is currently facing a labour shortage. The vice president of the Israel Builders Association, Haim Feiglin, was quoted by VOA as saying, right now we are negotiating with India. We are waiting for [the] decision of the Israeli government to approve that. And, we hope to engage 50,000 to 100,000 workers from India. In response to the government's decision Former CM of Haryana Deepender Singh Hooda, while conducting a press conference on Tuesday, said that this government does not have jobs and it's a non-performing government and the most corrupt one.