TRS Government vows to fill posts soon

Services of all those who fulfill the conditions will be regularised : Eatala Rajender

Hyderabad: Making it clear that the TRS government will stick to its word with regard to employment, Finance Minister Eatala Rajender said his government was considering the employment issue as a very important and would complete the process soon as it is the responsibility of the
government.

Allaying the fears of members on Friday on regularisation of contract employees’ services during the question hour, Rajender said the TRS government has decided to regularise the services of all those who fulfill the conditions prescribed in Section 10A of Telangana (Regulation of Appointments of Public Services and Rationalisation of Staff Pattern and Pay Structure) Act, 1994 (Act 2 of 1994).

Not satisfied with the answer, BJP Floor leader Dr K Laxman said there was no clarity on who will be regularised. The government said before and after coming to power that it will fill 1.07 lakh vacant posts. He said the youth were demanding there should be no interviews to Group-II posts and the government has the responsibility to respond on it.

TRS MLA Srinivas Goud said that the government has to assure the outsourcing employees that they will be provided job security. “Some of the contract employees are converted as outsourcing employees and they needed job security”, he asked.

Congress senior MLA D K Aruna asked the government to announce as how many contract employees were there in the State. Clarifying the doubts of members, the Minister said that the Telangana movement had taken up demanding for water, funds and employment. The government stick to its word that it will fill the vacant posts in the newly formed Telangana state.

He said that the district-wise details and additional financial burden will be known on completion of the process to identify persons eligible for regularisation, which is in progress. He revealed that the government has enhanced the minimum remuneration of outsourcing/ contract personnel working in the State government to Rs.12,000 per month considering it as a first category Rs.15,000 as second category and Rs.17,500 as third category.

He said that the overall burden on the State exchequer is Rs.310 crore per annum. He said that there were 5,23,675 jobs in Telangana state by the time the State was formed and in which 1,07,744 vacant posts were there. Stating that there were some hurdles in regularising the contract employees, he said that the government will regularise the contract employees working in State government jobs by the time June 2, 2014.

Those who were not irregular and full time (not time scale) employees will be regularised. He said that the government identified the contract employees district-wise and are 1,243 in Rangareddy, 3,193 in Hyderabad, 2,391 in Medak, 4,134 in Mahabubnagar, 3,089 in Karimnagar and 1,422 in Nizamabad.

The government also created 18,423 new jobs and 1,000 in agriculture department additionally. More than 11,000 jobs were filled till now and the government will announce 10,927 posts in DSC and 2,444 posts in residential schools. The government already filled 2,650 engineers, 3,950 in RTC and 4,000 in Singareni, he revealed.

Reacting sharply to it, Laxman alleged that the government has given big answer only to cover its failures. He alleged that the government was closing schools in the naming of rationalisation. Reacting to this, Eatela seriously said that the government was solving the problems with love for people.