DSC Selectees Protest Foiled, Again

Candidates chosen under the District Selection Committee (DSC) 2008 on Saturday held yet another protest before the state Secretariat. However, similar to their earlier attempts to force the government to announce filling up vacancies, this protest, too, was suppressed by the security forces.

Saturday's protest by the DSC-2008 selectees commenced from the Telugu Talli flyover opposite the Secretariat. The protestors managed to reach the gates of the Secretariat, and the situation turned tense for some time as police personnel first tried to sweet-talk the protestors to call off their protest and then resorted to more firmer tactics.

The police finally bundled off protestors' leaders to waiting vans.

Meanwhile, the patience of thousand of DSC-2008 selectees, awaiting the government decision on posting orders for them, is running thin with each passing day. They had been assured repeatedly that the government will take an appropriate decision on their future, first on April 29, and then on May 6, but each meeting by the concerned ministers has failed to give the selectees any concrete time frame.

The state government cites legal hurdles and a financial crunch in announcing the filling up of posts of around 52,000 vacancies in the education sector.

A case pending in the Supreme Court on the recruitment of Secondary Grade Teachers (SGT) 2008 has become a big hurdle in issuing posting orders to the qualified SGT candidates.

The cabinet meeting also failed to come out with a decision on giving postings to 32,000 qualified SGT candidates of DSC-2008. It has merely discussed the measures of overcoming the legal hurdles in giving them their postings.

Courtesy: INN News