QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly adopted four resolutions on Thursday, with its members discussing issues like job quota for locals in private companies.

Deputy Speaker Mir Qaddus Bizenjo chaired the session.

A joint resolution seeking allocation of 70 per cent job quota for local youths in private industrial units and other companies was tabled by Sardar Saleh Muhammad Bhootani. The quota would serve to ease the unemployment crisis in the province, said the resolution.

Taking part in debate on the matter, lawmakers said the provincial government issued no objection certificates to businessmen setting up companies in the province but the locals were often not provided jobs in such firms.

A quota would help alleviate the sense of deprivation among the people.

The legislators said that agriculture was the main source of livelihood for the local population but electricity outages and shortage of power to run tube-wells had badly affected the sector, increasing the rate of unemployment.

In a resolution, Mufti Gulab Khan Kakar requested the government to direct the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) to provide natural gas to Aghbarg, an area on the suburbs of Quetta. Speaking on the subject, the legislators said that Aghbarg was just a few kilometres from the main gas pipeline, while people of Dera Bugti, where gas was produced, totally lacked the facility.

They assailed the SSGC for supplying only about 80 per cent of the gas required by the consumers.

Syed Liaquat Agha tabled the third resolution which demanded of the government to enhance the promotion quota for personnel of the Levies Force to 60pc from the existing 20pc. It said the promotion quota for police department was 60pc. Therefore the quota for Levies should be raised to 60pc.