A committee formed to tackle the problem of unemploy- ment has ironically failed at its job. Its tardy pace of work means that in the last two and a half year, the members have met only four times. The committee, set up in December 2010, is headed by minister of state for employment and self- employment, and has nine MLAs and MLCs as its members. The last meeting of the committee was held in February this year. The date for the next meeting is yet to be decided.

Government sources told this newspaper that the committee, under the chairmanship of the then MoS Gulabrao Deokar, met thrice in 2011, and once in 2013. From August 2011 to February 2013, the committee did not have a single meeting. After Deokar’s exit from the state cabinet in June this year, the present incumbent Sanjay Sawkare is yet to call a fresh meeting.