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Fate of 180 employees hangs in balance
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The future of 180 contract employees working in 43 government Computer Centres running under Minority Welfare Department across the State hangs in balance. Lack of coordination between the departments handling the administration and finances has led to the situation reaching such a sad state.
Govt computer centre in mess
The government has transferred the management of the centre from Minority Welfare Department to Minority Finance Corporation recently
Hyderabad: The future of 180 contract employees working in 43 government Computer Centres running under Minority Welfare Department across the State hangs in balance. Lack of coordination between the departments handling the administration and finances has led to the situation reaching such a sad state.
These centres, which were started during the TDP government in 1999 under “Deepam package” were intended to provide six months computer training programme students in advance diploma in computer applications and desktop publishing. There are 43 centres in Telangana and there are 180 employees. In Hyderabad there are 12 centres with 81 employees.
The centres were transferred from Urdu Academy to Minority Welfare Department in 2013. Since there is no budget for Minority Welfare Department, the salaries to the staff were paid by the Urdu Academy.
In a new twist to the story, the centres were transferred from Minority Welfare Department to Minority Finance Corporation two days ago. A memo was circulated that since Centres were providing training, it must come under jurisdiction of Minority Finance Corporation like several other training and employment schemes.
Most of the computer centres are in rented building. The Urdu Academy used to pay the rent and salaries of Rs 8,000 each to two tutors and Rs 5,000 to a clerical staff in each centre.
Enquiries revealed that the salaries to the staff for November have not yet been paid. “Payment of salaries are delayed for last six months,” according to faculty members. Meanwhile, the officials of Minority Finance Corporation said that the Centres were not being managed properly as there was no monitoring mechanism in Urdu Academy.
“I had personally visited two of the centres in City and found that they were not functioning. I wrote to the government highlighting the issue after inspection. I am awaiting government response to take action,” said Syed Vilayat Hussain, General Manager, Minorities Finance Corporation.
Even, the officials of Urdu Academy acknowledged that there was no monitoring in the districts as there were no official at the district level officials of Academy. “We could not monitor, when the centres were opened and closed. We were releasing the salaries till now, but there would be stricter measures adopted now,” said Prof S A Shukoor, Secretary Urdu Academy.
By:Md Nizamuddin
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