Round-table meet demands filling of vacancies

Hyderabad: A round-table conference organised by the State BJP on "One lakh jobs promise made by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao' has demanded that the State government announce annual recruitment calendar.

Addressing as the chief guest at the conference here on Sunday, State BJP president K Laxman said how the State government had failed to fulfil its promise of filling vacancies of 1.12 lakh.

He said the State government was not even concerned to pay attention despite 25 lakh unemployed in the State registered themselves with the Telangana State Public Service Commission (TSPSC) and waiting for the job notification for the last five-and- half years.

Former MLA and Backward Classes Welfare Association leader R Krishnaiah alleged that the State government was trying to save Rs 10,000 crore annually by not filling lakhs of vacancies in the government departments.

Graduate Constituency MLC R Ramachander Rao wondered as to how the State could achieve its objective of Bangaru Telangana without strengthening its administrative machinery by filling the existing vacancies.

Prof Laxman Rao of Osmania University said some of the existing lecturers in degree colleges and few others were appointed during the Congress tenure headed by the then Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy. Since then there was no recruitment in the educational institutions and universities, he pointed out.

Unemployed graduates from different parts of the State, besides Osmania, Kakatiya and Mahatma Gandhi Universities and those waiting for postings after getting selected in various competitive examinations, explained the problems being faced by them for the last five years for not able to get employed.

The conference demanded that TSPSC release a white paper on the department-wise vacancies, number of vacancies for which approvals were given, number of posts for which notifications were issued and number of recruitments completed.

Also, they demanded the release of notifications to fill all the existing vacancies and issue of joining orders for those selected for VRO, TRT, FBO, hostel welfare officers, staff nurses, paramedical staff and in other competitive examinations.

They also demanded that the State government appoint a committee of legal experts for a speedy resolution of the job notifications languishing in litigation in various courts and to take steps to issues appointment orders.

The government was urged to make public the written and interview marks while publishing the merit lists of various recruitments and spending the crores of revenue generation from the fee collected by conducting competitive examinations for the welfare of those preparing for various tests.

The roundtable also demanded the lifting of all cases filed against the unemployed in the State.