New Delhi: Days after the Congress party pushed for setting aside government jobs, particularly for the youth of Tripura, chief minister Manik Saha said that his government has made ‘Permanent Resident of Tripura Certificate’ (PRTC) mandatory for applying to jobs in all state government departments and semi-government bodies.Saha said the decision has been cleared by his cabinet. As per a PTI report, the move, he said, was to provide more employment opportunities to the state’s youth. “This will be in addition to the other requirements already in force,” said the news report.“As a part of the state government’s ongoing effort to provide employment to the youth of the state of Tripura, the cabinet has decided that the PRTC would be required while making applications for government and semi-government jobs,” Saha said in a Facebook post.In May, Congress MLA and a senior leader of the state, Sudip Roy Barman, had written a letter to the state public service commission chairman, Kush Kumar Sharma, pressing for PRTC to be made a necessary requirement for all state government jobs.The letter said knowledge of Bengali and Kokborok, two local languages of the state, should be made a part of the eligibility list for state government jobs.Roy Barman had particularly referred to an advertisement issued by the state agriculture department in January this year for a post to say, “I am amused by the fact that the provision of PRTC with knowledge of Bengali or Kokborok has not been provided/published as an eligibility criterion.”Last year, the Arunachal Pradesh government, in response to a demand by the All Nyishi Students Union, had constituted a “high level” committee to examine the feasibility of a suggestion to make permanent resident of Arunachal Pradesh certificate a requisite to appear in examinations held by the state public service commission.