Bird queries policies in place for job creation

THE people of East Sepik want to know what policies are in place for job creation in the country, Governor Allan Bird says.
Speaking in Parliament last week, he said his people continued to ask him if there were any plans captured in any Government documents about job creation and law and order prevention targets.
Bird said he had studied the Medium Term Development Plan (MTDP) 3 and the National Budget to see if these two issues were captured.
But both the MTDP 3 and the budget contained little or vague information on job creation and law and order prevention targets.
He said the Government should have included job creation target like any responsible government in the world would do.
Bird said MTDP 3 only gave a little information on job creation where it stated the creation of only 5000 jobs from 2018-22.
He said Education Minister Nick Kuman had said that some 70,000 students were finishing school every year, so from 2018-22, some 350,000 students would finish school.
“I want to know how much we are correlating these students, that we are putting through our education system, with the number of jobs we want to create through the budget,” Bird said.
He said his second issues was on law and order.
Bird wanted the Government to tell him and the people of PNG targets to be achieved through the 2019 Budget of K1.6 billion.